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Paddling

Postby cc@t on Tue Jan 03, 2006 6:59 pm

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Postby Alex on Tue Jan 03, 2006 7:08 pm

I like it, cc@t. Very colourful.

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Postby moggy on Tue Jan 03, 2006 7:23 pm

Nice composition, the colours draw the eyes to the main subjects then lead onto the background. Terrific. :)

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Postby big pix on Tue Jan 03, 2006 8:45 pm

nice image ....... but you could improve it by cropping a bit of the foreground water to make your 3 subjects stand out a lot more against the background............
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Postby Alpha_7 on Wed Jan 04, 2006 6:11 pm

Nice Image, I agree a crop might help here, for me I'd crop the left to just before the saililng boat (so I get in the main cityscape), then crop the bottom to be closer to the 3 paddlers.
If I had imagehosting I'd upload what I mean, but I think from here, it would improve the impact of the colourful kayaks.
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Postby DionM on Wed Jan 04, 2006 8:35 pm

An excellent cityscape shot - the type I like - the conventional "this is the city" photo, with some interest thrown in!

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Postby Steffen on Thu Jan 05, 2006 5:06 am

Beautiful! The boats in the foreground are like a mini-rainbow (in slight dis-array). I agree with the others that a tighter crop would improve the image.

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Postby cc@t on Thu Jan 05, 2006 10:35 am

Here is the cropped version, but I think I prefer the original ??

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Postby Alpha_7 on Thu Jan 05, 2006 10:44 am

I like the cropped version better, but personally would still like to lose the sailboat on the left.

The kayakers have much more impact in this new version.
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