[WesMal]

   

[Jocko]

Generally a good image. Well focussed and exposed. I love the foreground. Horizon looks a little lop sided. Only real issue is with the two "half" boats. Perhaps there was not a lot you could have done. A slightly different view point would have lost your foreground. Maybe a wider angle may have improved things, but in a busy anchorage that may have just introduced more overlapping boats. Straight from camera though, it is a good shot. I'll leave Ed to clone out the boats, he is good at it.

[Jocko]

Perhaps a crop like this could be used.

   

But there again, maybe not!

[EdMak]

Getting there, as John says, have you sourced any editing software yet, my/John's version. Regards. Ed.

[EdMak]

Some of the boats surfaced again. Promising pic Wes. Ed.

[MrB]

Lovely scene and the foreground rocks help to give the image good depth. If it were mine, I would want to reduce the blue glare and selectively brighten and sharpen the image, but only gently. An alternative approach to the chopped boats is to add a bit to each side.

   
[Image edited in PaintShop Pro]

Cheers.
Philip

[Jocko]

Clever, Philip, very clever.

[MrB]

It is not really all that difficult, after a bit of practice. First the image canvas size was increased to make a blank strip down each side. Then suitable content from elsewhere in the image was cloned into the strips. In PaintShop Pro, I used the Magic Fill tool for the basic cloning (I think that later versions of Photoshop have a similar feature called Context Sensitive Fill), followed by using the Clone Brush tool to paint over any obvious repetitions to give a more realistic finish. The fiddly bit was making the bow of the boat on the left hand side, for which I used a very small clone brush on a much magnified view of the image.

Cheers.
Philip

[Jocko]

Philip. Had a look at the Magic Fill tool and it looks a useful piece of kit. Unfortunately, the Photoshop version arrived in CS5. I have CS4.
I will have to spend more time on Paintshop Pro, and learn how to use it. As I have said, I bought the tutorial book and today the programme downloaded Service Pack 1, so I have no real excuses.

[EdMak]

Anybody using Photoshop, I use CS4E, this is the procedure.

Open - Image, Canvas Size, I used 1" Width, then Clone surround, ascertain Aligned is ticked at top.

I used the bow and engine encircled, to clone where needed. . Crop as wanted.

Tidy up as you wish, it is a small file though. Ed.

[Jocko]

Tried copying Philip's technique, but using purely cloning.

   

[MrB]

It doesn't matter how you get there, John, as long as you get to where you want to be! Nice work.

Cheers.
Philip

[Jocko]

Thanks, Philip.

[EdMak]

Great effort John, personally I would sharpen it a bit. Ed.

[Jocko]

All I was doing was the cloning.