Looking for critique on a Photo

[Nikog]

Taken on a recent trip to Thailand, I'm just really wanting some other perspectives on the Shot, I think its decent but I want someone to shred it to pieces On here

 

[nutz.]

too much foreground imo

 

[HarkStudios]

^^^^^^^^^^ agreee

 

[liamrashotte]

Yeah there's too much foreground maybe just crop it to a landscape not sure what dimensions though...

Just try and remove a bit of foreground

 

[lcoopman]

I think that you could have just angled the camera up a little more and would have been fine.

 

[zbphoto]

See to me the key action in this is the people and that boat, so get closer. As well, the leaves up top don't add anything. Watch your highlights, I get its hard to do with digital but the majority of the sun is blowing out to pure white, if you shot RAW there should be detail to pull back. Your settings were ƒ/9.0, 1/2500, ISO 640. First drop that ISO down, its noisy, you shouldn't need to be above 400 in most situations. As well, I don't think the silhouette adds much, this is probably 1-2 stops underexposed so either push the exposure comp or drop your shutter speed.

 

[Nikog]

See to me the key action in this is the people and that boat, so get closer. As well, the leaves up top don't add anything. Watch your highlights, I get its hard to do with digital but the majority of the sun is blowing out to pure white, if you shot RAW there should be detail to pull back. Your settings were ƒ/9.0, 1/2500, ISO 640. First drop that ISO down, its noisy, you shouldn't need to be above 400 in most situations. As well, I don't think the silhouette adds much, this is probably 1-2 stops underexposed so either push the exposure comp or drop your shutter speed.

Thank you sir, I'll try to think of this in the future, although I don't have a raw processer, do you of a decent one That I could get for free?

 

[Michael_Thatcher]

Thank you sir, I'll try to think of this in the future, although I don't have a raw processer, do you of a decent one That I could get for free?

If you have OSX or Linux I would use darktable, if you have windows then RawTherapee or Gimp are your best options.

Or you could err, get lightroom matey!