Contre jour Bridlington

[@imagesBV]

I have so many images from this short visit and its hard not to upload too many...the light was good yesterday afternoon and I think this is my best shot
(R6 + RF16mm STM at f16 and 1/400 sec)
Comments and improvement suggestions welcome please

Bridlington by brianvickers, on Flickr

[Trev B]

Like that Brian, nice lead in or perhaps lead out ! what was the chap doing right of picture 'Cockling'

[El Sid]

Like that Brian, nice lead in or perhaps lead out ! what was the chap doing right of picture 'Cockling'

I'm liking it too.

Suspect the gent in question may be a metal detectorist, I've seen a fair few on Bognor beach at low tide and that's how they tend to look...

[@imagesBV]

Thanks both….yes a metal detectorist.

[Bill53]

Excellent shot Brian.

[Farider]

A lovely shot Brian. You did say comments and improvements welcome so with some trepidation here are my humble thoughts.

The cobbles are lovely but all the top of the pic is very bright with a lot of any detail in the sky lost. Perhaps reducing the highlights significantly and/or an applying a graduated filter down to the bait digger would help. It would need experimentation to see what worked best.

The distant two figures and presumably dog I think are a bit of a distraction and could be removed.

If you’ve got any more of the pic on the right you have cropped off it would be nice if the bait digger was a little more central

Anyway those are my thoughts, it is still a lovely pic though.

Ian

[@imagesBV]

Thanks Ian, that’s exactly the feedback I’m looking for.
I was ill prepared just walking with the camera and no tripod or filters. I’ll be back in the area next year hopefully and be prepared.
I like the high key upper third of the frame but maybe it just can’t be combined with the darker slipway foreground.
there is a concrete wall to the right which compromises a more central composition.
thanks again for your feedback

[tigerburnie]

Nice depth to that shot

[antoeknee]

Excellent image. I could see reducing highlights might be good but don't mind the figures. Suppose it would have been nice if detectorist/cockler was looking into frame but not a problem really.

[Stackman]

Nice photo

[Colin W]

Interesting photo.