What Do You Think ?

Very small image, hard to see ocean, maybe lighten the foreground, water spray maybe a little blown out, but over all I like the image a lot :)

Brady,

I love the concept. It’s a powerful vision of man against wild, so to speak. Danger and excitement of the unknown all come to mind. Excellent way of stepping out of your comfort zone! I applaud you!



I feel it needs to be cropped. And I say this because, placing the person smack-dab in the middle is not working for me in this case. There is nowhere for my eyes to go, because the distribution of weight is evened out. By doing this you’re not ‘walking me through the image.’ There are plenty of situations where breaking ‘the rules’ work, unfortunately, I do not think it works here.

I love the fact that this is black and white! It was most likely the best choice, and I’m glad to see you made the conversion. Something tells me the colour version just did not work for you. It’s wonderful you’re thinking outside the box. When I edit, the first thing I do is convert to black and white, for the simple fact that all I am seeing at that point is ‘tone.’ In my opinion, if the tones do not work well in black and white, I cannot see it working in colour to well. Great choice!

I offer you two separate cropped versions to consider. Actually, I think either would work, too. To me they both appear much stronger to the eye, and I, personally, like the vertical crop. What do you think?

There is much noise at hi-res to consider, too.

Overall a very beautiful image – I love your vision here!

Thank you. You are right. I will crop it and yeah it's me in the photo.

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The centered diver doesn't bother me. In fact, I kinda like the symmetry. It provides a sense of stability to a scene of raw power.

Do you have a higher resolution version? If so, you should upload that so you can sell bigger prints.

Great Capture! The cropping makes sense but I like the landscape version better than the portrait. Why? Living at the beach I tend to picture itn (everything about the ocean) more "horizontally" - even those massive/crashing waves of a storm.

I did read your bit of narrative and thought it unique that "it is a selfie." Bravo. A line from "I Hope You Dance" by Lee Ann Womack comes to mind, "Do you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean?"

I have some large images of waves in Ocean City, MD from last winter - shot in both portrait and landscape. Here is the one choice I made to upload - that was picked up and shared by a local TV meteorologist. (It is more of a "media shot" than art - but I'm using it anyway - someone may buy it - eventually.)



~ Bill
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Keep the original. The scene to me suggests man as being very small or miniscule compared to nature.

I vote for keeping him in the middle. It makes him look small next to the huge ocean (which is how we all feel when we look out over the ocean). Breaking the "rules" here works .