THE IMAGE: Shot the same morning as my ribbon winner in the Motivational Poster Challenge. I loved this shot, so I went for another go. I know my score will not be as good, but who knows...
THE EDIT: Grayscale, Duotone, USM, D and B, NN...that's about it really
THE PREDICTION: Mid to High 6???
POST: I guess my prediction was right. I finished about where I thought for a change. Thanks for the votes and comments everyone...
Statistics
Place: 26 out of 503 Avg (all users): 6.7481 Avg (commenters): 7.7143 Avg (participants): 6.6436 Avg (non-participants): 7.1000 Views since voting: 1785 Views during voting: 197 Votes: 131 Comments: 17 Favorites: 3 (view)
Yet another example of why you are high on my list of favorite photographers. Interesting to note that none of your votes are below a 5....how often does THAT happen!!!! Rare indeed...;-)
The contrast here is much better than your motivational poster entry, but i'm not sure if I like the composition quite as much- it could just be the frame in the other one that attracted me. Still, amazing shot.
This is really gorgeous. My only nit is the blown out area in the boat's front area, but it's minor compared with the movement, lines and patterns in this photo. 9.
Beautiful symmetry. WOW - the tones are perfect. I guess to make it as exactly balanced as it should be, you'd have been a bit to the left so that you are looking straight on. Really nice though.
Composition: good ilike the way the lines lead the eye into the picture
Background :
Subject Placement:good
Cropping:good
Focus: good
Exposure:a bit dark
Editing:good
Could this be by hotpasta I wonder? Reminds me of his motivational poster. Not as good as that one, but still a good photo. I find the front of the boat is too bright.