INNER HARBOUR - VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA

Posted by Anne (White Rock, Canada) on 3 February 2007 in Cityscape & Urban and Portfolio.

A view of tour boats and buildings across the Inner Harbour.

Please go ahead and give me constructive criticism where needed! If there is anything that I can change that really needs changing and I can do it in editing - then I will change it and re-post the photo! I promise I won't scream and shout or cry for very long!

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Comments (10)

M.E. from Encino, United States

i like how the ripples provide detail to this picture.

3 Feb 2007 10:02am

@M.E.: Thanks ME. I was just writing a comment of my own in answer to a guy whose suggestions about what I should do with this photo would virtually need me to go back and re-take it. I tried to do what he suggested and it didn't work, so I'd lost my other comments when I removed the first picture I put up, and uploaded a further edited version. So I was suprised to see a comment here when I came back from posting the long wided answer to him right here on my page. (I can find his reply address when I go back to my email - but I need to stay up here and do some comments on other peoples work) I'll go right now and have a look at yours for today!

Anne from White Rock, Canada

Hi Color Blind: Thanks for your comments. I agree the sky does look a lot better with the highlight curve taken down a bit. The sky was exposed perfectly in the original, but I had already had to increase the light tone curve because of no sunshine on the white boat to the right, which looked very drab. However, I have made a compromise here and re-uploaded the photo. Tell me if it looks better! With regard to your cropping suggestions - it is just not feasible with the shot to have more water in front and the boats at the top. I was standing on a narrow floating jetty when I shot this so to have put more sea into the shot I would have had to be in the water myself. Short of selecting a piece of the water in front and stitching it back onto the bottom of the photo, there is no way. Also cropping down to the boats themselves doesn't work because the boats themselves look silly with the masts cut off. (They are almost to the top of the picture anyway). I'm always open to good suggestions - so I went and tried to change it to see what it looked like myself. (I had already lost a piece of the original 3002 x 2000 in straightening the photo. I wasn't too steady on something that floats. Reducing the highlights has flattened it somewhat so I have added a bit of luminence to some of the colors. Re-uploading has taken away my comments and everything else linked to the first upload. Oh yes! With the boats at the top it would blow away my rule of thirds, without more sea at the bottom.

3 Feb 2007 10:23am

Alfredo J. Martiz J. from Tokyo, Japan

I wish I had been on time to see the first version of this photo, after what I have read I think this is looking nice now.

3 Feb 2007 11:05am

@Alfredo J. Martiz J.: Thank you Alfredo! I was just about ready to toss this one into the garbage can. But, that is why we put them up - to get a bit of criticism! When I have a picture I really love - I will spend a lot of time trying to make it perfect - but this wasn't one of them - so ended up getting a bit frustrated with it ;)

Donna from Manchester, New Hampshire, United States

Great work!

3 Feb 2007 12:39pm

@Donna: Thank you for your kind remark Donna! The original had a lot more to say but at the expense of a bit of overexposure in the sky. I've messed around with this one too much! :)

Wayne from Melbourne, Australia

I love how you've captured the reflections on the water...and your composition by placing the gap just slighty off centre...I think it gives more perspective. Great Job!

3 Feb 2007 1:02pm

Colour blind from Tokyo, Japan

Hey Anne I think it looks a lot better with the processing now. There is some Dof especially in the middle of your picture. With respect to the cropping suggestion I didn't mean that you should crop anymore of this picture, all I meant was if you were in the same neighborhood and taking the same picture from a similar position then maybe angle your camera to incoroporate more water.

I don't know how great you are with PS but stiching a piece of water at the bottom is waaaaaaaay beyond anything that I can do.

As Wayne said the reflections on the water are fantastic and I remember writing the same thing about the previous picture. With the luminence it's brought it out a little more.

Thanks for taking the time to have a go with the picture, I look forward to seeing your future photos.

Take it easy.

3 Feb 2007 1:17pm

@Colour blind: Hey Color Blind: (What a name - that's me when I spend too long editing and looking at a picture). Well thanks for your reply. Trouble is I'm too much of a perfectionist and if somebody thinks something isn't quite right, I have to go and try to make it the best I can. I should have learned my lesson by now - and even junked that photo. When they take so much time to mess around with then they are really not worth keeping (unless they are a once in a lifetime thing!). I have so many more that are better quality than that one. I have put another view of the inner harbour today, with the sun shining from a much better place. Thanks a lot - been staying up far too late with all the photos I took in Mexico (1200) - trying to sort out and junk ones that are almost the same. Sorry if I sounded off too much. Anne

badala from Leiria, Portugal

Nice one. Makes me think I need vacations...

3 Feb 2007 1:35pm

@badala: Oh! Badala! My Daughter and her Husband have given me two vacations in 2006, more than I ever ever had before. But it just makes me want more: that is so greedy isn't it. I had the photo opportunities of my life. I took lots of photos when I lived near the Canadian Rockies, but I only got a good digital camera just before I went to Mexico in December. Film is so expensive if you want to experiment! Thank you for all your comments on my photos. I will always remember when I can to visit yours. You are a faithful visitor to many good photographers on aminus3.