This person walked into the image i was working on bent over and the rest is history!
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Hey James!
I’m assuming this was a black sand beach… I really like the fact that the person is silhouetted, but I keep trying to see some detail in the sand. If the natural color of it is more of a dark gray, I would try to leave some detail there, since it takes up such a large percentage of the frame and is so much darker than the water that it feels a bit distracting. If my eye could see some detail there, then it would be able to “move on” instead of continually straining to see what seems like it should naturally have a little luminosity to it.
You could also try “unifying” some of the colors so there aren’t quite so many - slightly desaturating and pushing the yellow reflections more toward a more reddish hue to match the sky up top, and maybe desaturating some of the foamy parts of the water that should be whiter than the blue ocean.
Lastly, the reflected light in the lower right is the brightest part of the image, and it also kind of pulls my eye a bit more than I’d like - so I’d try a slight vignette on that right edge and try slightly dimming the reflection.
One thing to consider is to have the person turned in from the edge of the frame rather than turned outward out of the frame. In fact this may make a good vertical with the person centered.
Spot on, Igor. That’s something I noticed right away, but then I immediately got into the mode of trying to “fix” the existing image, and forgot to suggest what could be done differently next time. In general I think it’s good form to have subjects “facing” into the frame rather than out of it, be they people, mountains, or trees.
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