This is an old photograph from last October (2010), when I had yet to change over to shooting RAW for everything. It was a calm but heavily overcast morning, so the colours are quite uninteresting - so I turned it black and white, and played with levels and curves to bring out some details in the water.
Putting the issue of uninterestingness of the photograph, I wanted to play with the crop.
The shot above is the original crop with some of the blank sky taken out to fit 4:5 ratio. I like the simplicity of this photo, but couldn't help feeling that the point was a either too big or too much to the left, thus resulting in an unbalanced composition.
Also, I felt that the sky was adding very little to the photo. So I made this crop:
I think this is my favourite crop. By eliminating the excess sky and keeping the aspect ratio equal, the boat now seems slightly better balanced. Note how this does not improve the interestingness of the photo. Although I was pretty happy with this, if something is worth doing then it's definitely worth over-doing, so I made this crop:
At this size, the boat takes on some detail and the horizontal details merging into the dark foreground can almost be called interesting, but the photo becomes quite unbalanced and awkward.
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