Your Photo: Our Critique

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This is a beautifully composed photograph—I like the symmetry on either side of the boat, and the perspective point ending in the distant sky. Here are a few things I would fix to make it even better: Remove the distracting out-of-focus blades of grass in the foreground. Lighten the group of trees on the right side, and lighten the mid-tones in the boat itself for more detail. Crop off some of the bottom or the top for a more dramatic look—a centered horizon almost always makes a picture look static. (Photo submitted by Allison Cottreau).
—Linzee Karasik
Art/Production Assistant

Introducing a new simple way to understand our critiques: The PopPhoto Flash rating system.
*= This part of the camera is called the lens
**= Don’t quit your day job
***= Good, but not yet great
****=So close you can taste it
*****= Yes, a thousand times yes!

This photo gets 3.5 stars on the PopPhoto Flash rating system.

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