Rui - this is a good composition with lots of interest and action. It really needs Photoshop (or any other editor) - You've got splendid colors and contrasts just waiting to get out - to come forward - to make this image sing. It is flat. I hope you'll forgive the critique - but it is ashame to let a good image not work.

15 Aug 2008 5:09am

@Stephen Phillips: Thanks a lot Stephen. By the contrary, constructive criticism is ALWAYS welcome, as well ideas. It's a way to correct mistakes, learn and improve! I will follow yor suggestion and see what is possible to do (or what I can do LOL), and repost a new version.

Erik from Amersfoort, Netherlands

Great shot, love the composition and the lines all come together right in the middle.

15 Aug 2008 6:25am

@Erik: Thanks a lot Erik.

Ana Lúcia from Leiria, Pakistan

Tirando a parte técnica que continua, no meu ponto de vista incorrecta, a fotografia está interessante, as pessoas parecem maiores do que o farol e a suavidade dos tons do céu é relaxante.

15 Aug 2008 9:48am

@Ana Lúcia: ;) Obrigado

Marco from Verbania, Italy

beautiful background: the boats, the vanished sky and the sea...well done

15 Aug 2008 11:14am

@Marco: Grazie Marco

Stephen Phillips from San Francisco, United States

Much,much better than the original post, Rui. I suspect it could go further. What software are you using as a photo editor? ~ S

15 Aug 2008 6:06pm

@Stephen Phillips: Well... I'm using Photoshop CS3. I still don't know it very well...

Ana Lúcia from Leiria, Portugal

Pois olha eu acho que piorou. Estava melhor antes, mais natural. Mas ok.

15 Aug 2008 9:22pm

Lorraine from Gatineau, Canada

There is such a sense of distance in this...it is really attractive, Stephen is right on some counts, although it looks like an old film photo that has been scanned, it that the case?

16 Aug 2008 8:37am

@Lorraine: No. I took it directly with the DSLR Canon... nowadays I normally only use the "old" SLR with B&W film. And those I never published any.

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