Parksville Beach, where the tide goes out forever, but was well on its way back in at this point. Most people were in groups, playing and running, but this one child was alone and spent a long time simply standing in this pool... mostly just quietly looking...
Crop, curves, some burning and dodging, cleaned up a bit of haloing around the boy... all simple stuff, since that's all I know how to do yet.
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I think this is an interesting picture with a nice composition, however it seems to be suffering a bit from some technical issues. First the light is very flat and so the image has a bit of a washed out quality to the sand areas to me. I wish the focus was greater/deeper as well. I would suggest cropping out the ocean entirely. The composition in my estimation is much stronger when it is simply those great organicly shaped parcels of water contrasting to the dark sand. I'd also like to see how it looked without the person in the image as the bright red shirt jars the eye (for me) and disrupts a nice feeling of nature harmony just seeing the water/sand play might have. I gave a 4
Lovely idea here, but would have like it so much more, if it were just the top half of the image, re the tranquility of the image.....
It kind of looks like two images in the one.
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