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[fotugraphy]

Hi, going forward on my photography venture I stopped and clicked another shot. Can you please review it and let me know what exactly is missing for it to make it much better?

it is a shot of River Ganga, India in Varanasi. I have used fisheye for it.

Please provide your views and suggestion with composition, frame, crops.

Thank You

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[Shadowman]

Nicely captured.

[fotugraphy]

Nicely captured.

Thank you for your kind review and appreciation

[NorthernFocus]

I like it, Raj. Definitely a photo that tells a story with many elements included plus nice sunset colors. Well done.

[Wavelength]

Excellent...and a story teller indeed

[ionian]

Great photo Raj - you ask what is missing to improve it. What do you think is missing? For me it's close to perfect already. You could clone out the bird on the horizon, that's it. You could lighten the shadows on the people but then it won't balance with the delicate sky, so all the levels will need adjusting.

If in doubt, put it away for a couple of days and look at it with fresh eyes later.

[Davejl]

Beautiful image, the sky/river reflection colours are excellent and I love the red in the foreground. The fisheye distortion adds interest.

[Dave A]

For me this image is amazing. It's a small thing but even the two birds flying by make the image a little better......if that's possible.

Dave

[John 2]

I like this for it's atmosphere and colour plus it is not easy to compose for a fish eye lens but this works well.

[Manfred M]

Raj - A stunning image. You certainly picked a much better day to see the sunrise over the Ganges than we did. You can at least see the sun!

That being said, I find you have taken a somewhat unusually view, shooting this in vertical / portrait orientation, rather than the more conventional landscape / horizontal orientation. This has the upside in controlling the large number of boats that are out on the river and really simplified the image a great deal.

You definitely have the three zones of a classical landscape image; the foreground; the steps of the ghat, the middle ground of the water, the people and the boats and the background of sky and clouds. The perspective produced by the fisheye is interesting as well; the opposite bank has a convex shape and the ghat step a concave shape; this gives the water an interesting overall shape.

What would I change if it were my image? Some pretty minor stuff, really.

I find there is a bit too much foreground; the step is out of balance with the rest of the image and I would be tempted to crop about half of it off. There is a tiny spot of a boat creeping into the frame at the horizon on the right that is easy to clean up. I don't love the part of the boat moored on the left, as it disrupts the left edge of the image and I'd consider cloning that out too. The rest, I would leave, except for the bird just above the horizon.

This is what I have in mind.

[fotugraphy]

I like it, Raj. Definitely a photo that tells a story with many elements included plus nice sunset colors. Well done.

Thanks a lot for your kind review and appreciation.

[fotugraphy]

Excellent...and a story teller indeed

Thanks a lot for your valuable review and appreciation

[fotugraphy]

Great photo Raj - you ask what is missing to improve it. What do you think is missing? For me it's close to perfect already. You could clone out the bird on the horizon, that's it. You could lighten the shadows on the people but then it won't balance with the delicate sky, so all the levels will need adjusting.

If in doubt, put it away for a couple of days and look at it with fresh eyes later.

Thanks a lot for your valuable review and suggestion

[fotugraphy]

Beautiful image, the sky/river reflection colours are excellent and I love the red in the foreground. The fisheye distortion adds interest.

Thanks a lot for your kind review and appreciation

[fotugraphy]

For me this image is amazing. It's a small thing but even the two birds flying by make the image a little better......if that's possible.

Dave

thanks a lot for your kind review and suggestion

[fotugraphy]

I like this for it's atmosphere and colour plus it is not easy to compose for a fish eye lens but this works well.

Thanks a lot for your kind review and appreciation

[fotugraphy]

Raj - A stunning image. You certainly picked a much better day to see the sunrise over the Ganges than we did. You can at least see the sun!

That being said, I find you have taken a somewhat unusually view, shooting this in vertical / portrait orientation, rather than the more conventional landscape / horizontal orientation. This has the upside in controlling the large number of boats that are out on the river and really simplified the image a great deal.

You definitely have the three zones of a classical landscape image; the foreground; the steps of the ghat, the middle ground of the water, the people and the boats and the background of sky and clouds. The perspective produced by the fisheye is interesting as well; the opposite bank has a convex shape and the ghat step a concave shape; this gives the water an interesting overall shape.

What would I change if it were my image? Some pretty minor stuff, really.

I find there is a bit too much foreground; the step is out of balance with the rest of the image and I would be tempted to crop about half of it off. There is a tiny spot of a boat creeping into the frame at the horizon on the right that is easy to clean up. I don't love the part of the boat moored on the left, as it disrupts the left edge of the image and I'd consider cloning that out too. The rest, I would leave, except for the bird just above the horizon.

This is what I have in mind.

Thanks a lot for your kind review and detailed suggestion. Will surely do what all you have suggested. Certainly making a stronger image.

[Rebel]

Excellent image Raj, hand I think Manfred's edits have made it even better.

[fotugraphy]

Excellent image Raj, hand I think Manfred's edits have made it even better.

Thanks a lot for your kind review and suggestion. I have already applied all the suggestions