Vancouver Harbour

[Northern Tony]

Hi there,

Recently, I was lucky enough to visit Vancouver as part of my 40th birthday trip and took a few shots of the harbour from Stanley Park.


Can you offer me you honest opinions on the shot below? What could I have done to improve on the shot?

Exif information as follows:
Camera Model Canon EOS 40D
Shooting Date/Time 20/11/2008 07:45:51
Shooting Mode Aperture-Priority AE
Tv( Shutter Speed ) 2.5
Av( Aperture Value ) 13.0
Metering Mode Evaluative Metering
Exposure Compensation -2/3
ISO Speed 100
Lens 10-20mm
Focal Length 16.0 mm
Lee 0.6 ND grad filter

Look forward to you comments.7850

[Mark]

A couple of things for me.

1. Tell them to stop building the new tower block so you don't have cranes in the shot. :)
2. The foreground rocks are too dominating, perhaps if you'd moved a few paces left, perhaps got in the river, those two big boulders would be removed from the shot. I'm guessing you wanted to show Vancouver in the early morning light, however it only fills about an 1/8th of the shot.

Hope you had a great 40th.

[BillAllsopp]

The foreground rocks are too dominating,
Agreed I'm afraid, a higher viewpoint of a bit closer to the waters edge would have been better, as it is crop to a pano?

Your verticals are just a bit out, slight lean to the left but otherwise, choice of shutter speed, ND grad etc. looks fine.

[Northern Tony]

A couple of things for me.

1. Tell them to stop building the new tower block so you don't have cranes in the shot. :)
2. The foreground rocks are too dominating, perhaps if you'd moved a few paces left, perhaps got in the river, those two big boulders would be removed from the shot. I'm guessing you wanted to show Vancouver in the early morning light, however it only fills about an 1/8th of the shot.

Hope you had a great 40th.


Hi Mark,

Absolutely right about the cranes. I did put in a request, but you know what builders are like!!

Thanks for your comments about the rocks. Composition is my biggest downfall, can you recommend anything to help me improve?



Agreed I'm afraid, a higher viewpoint of a bit closer to the waters edge would have been better, as it is crop to a pano?

Your verticals are just a bit out, slight lean to the left but otherwise, choice of shutter speed, ND grad etc. looks fine.

Hi Bill,

Appreciate your comments. Did notice the lean but looked like it was leaning to the right a little and was concerned about the horizon being out if I altered it.

[Mark]

Thanks for your comments about the rocks. Composition is my biggest downfall, can you recommend anything to help me improve?

Hmmm difficult, try as many shots as you can from a location (digital is cheap), different heights perspectives and walk around and try and think what it would like on screen.

Not much help really sorry.