ocean edge

[AcadieLibre]

Why are your foregrounds look so soft and your photos seem to have a lot of noise to them. Your shorelines also look odd, not sure what is wrong they just look like something is not right? On the first photo why did you leave those lawn chairs in the shot? Could you not walk over and move them, they really add to the softness/fuzziness of the photos and for a small piece of land they just should not be in the shot. The second one looks underexposed and not sure what the final look you were going for in the edit but it looks really odd and very blotchy. The lawn chairs should just not be in either photo.

What was your aperture and what were the shutter speeds? Also did you use a tripod? If you were going for the curves what was the thinking about with the angles of your shots? What made you decide to shoot from those angles, just curious, not what I would have thought until I read the thread, the curves just really don't seem to be the focus of either shot. The first one your sky line looks at a third then you have that small piece of land with clutter, not really sure what the focus point of the photo is supposed to be? Why if no one was sitting in the chairs why you didn't take a few minutes to move them?

[Travis]

Why are your foregrounds look so soft and your photos seem to have a lot of noise to them. Your shorelines also look odd, not sure what is wrong they just look like something is not right? On the first photo why did you leave those lawn chairs in the shot? Could you not walk over and move them, they really add to the softness/fuzziness of the photos and for a small piece of land they just should not be in the shot. The second one looks underexposed and not sure what the final look you were going for in the edit but it looks really odd and very blotchy. The lawn chairs should just not be in either photo.

What was your aperture and what were the shutter speeds? Also did you use a tripod? If you were going for the curves what was the thinking about with the angles of your shots? What made you decide to shoot from those angles, just curious, not what I would have thought until I read the thread, the curves just really don't seem to be the focus of either shot. The first one your sky line looks at a third then you have that small piece of land with clutter, not really sure what the focus point of the photo is supposed to be? Why if no one was sitting in the chairs why you didn't take a few minutes to move them?

lol.... judging from the first few words of the op's post "not all shots work" I think Tegan was posting this as failure with an interesting aspect.... maybe it's home is Show Photo to avoid confusion....

[tegan]

It seems that I need to repeat myself, but any blotchyness is due to the small file size of 76K, due to compression. The colours blend very well in the original multimegabyte file, 300 pixels per inch at 14 inches by 9 inches.

You should also be aware that water is often shot at slow shutterspeeds in nature and scenic shots rendering it soft, as it is here. At 5:00 am in the morning, at 450mm at 5 seconds, you do not get sharp edges to the water. . On a boardwalk, over a swamp, with the light changing very quickly, moving the beach chairs is also just NOT an option either. They are too far away.

To repeat myself even further, noise can easily be processed out as well, so that is not a major problem either.

Although not perfect, this is an example of a common style, acceptable to many publishers. I will have no problem with publishing this photo.