A few favorites from Isle Royale National Park

burritosandbeer wrote:

Not trying to be needy, but I was honestly looking for some feedback.

Thx

Sorry if I seem harsh, but well, you asked for it

Horizons are titled, other images seem flat and a bit overexposed (probably due to the time of day). Both of these can be fixed with a bit of post-processing.

The bigger issues though have to do with composition. You have foreground elements that are blurry and take up a lot of area in the frame, and nothing to really draw my eyes to anything of real interest.

Some specific examples :

- The Lighthouse. Dull grey skies, water takes up 1/3 of the image but has no interesting properties or elements in it, colors look dull and lifeless. Some suggestions: Try doing this shot in the early morning and around sunset when the lighting and shadows are more dramatic, crop in closer to the lighthouse, try portrait orientation instead of landscape or include some element to make the water more interesting (someone canoeing past the lighthouse perhaps?)

- Canoes: foreground element is out of focus and distracting, horizon is hopelessly skewed (unless that was intentional?). Lots of uninteresting water, dull skies, trees what are partially "chopped off", etc. Maybe next time stand back more, include the canoes in their entirety instead of chopped off, give the viewer a sense of "we are going somewhere" by drawing their interest from the canoes out to the water ahead.

Sunset: pretty much derivative in general. I like what you were trying to do with the framing between the tree leaves, but again, those foreground elements are blurry.

Rock outcropping (the last image): Most interesting of the bunch and can probably be saved with a bit of post-processing to bring up the contrast and saturation, crop out some of the foreground and tighten things up on the sides a little.

I hope you don't mind, but I spent a coupe minutes playing around with the lighthouse in Photoshop to change the composition and punch up the sky and saturation a little.

and here I just increase the contrast, and darkened the sky a little