Here is yet another pic taken at Mystic. There was a very small cabin on the upper deck of the Ship "Captain Morgan." It obviously belonged to a woman. I saw this hat & loved the classic look of it. What do you folks think?

Hmm, love the hat, just not huge on the stuff on the right hand side. My eye follows the checkered ribbon towards it, which distracts me from the actual hat. Cropping it would be tough, but I'd recommend another angle. Nice shot though and beautiful subject,

Jared

Not just a hat........ a lady hat :)

Nice image of the hat, but I don't like the vertical blinds in the bg :(

AR

I like the subject and it looks very good as it is. nice lighting and focus. But I think it would be impossible to remove this hat from its surroundings by changing your position, so i would suggest try including more of its environment as opposed to trying to only shoot the hat. Good eye for an interesting image.

Nina,

I like it! I think it has a very romantic quality and is very pretty subject. I don't find the background items overly distracting personally. I think you've used some PS to try and focus the eye to the hat, and it's fairly effective. Perhaps to furhter visually isolate the hat itself, you could apply gaussian blur to the background to further focus the eye only on the subject and not allow the rest to detract. Just a thought!

Cheers, Stew

Hi Nina,

I like your image a lot. Very nice. I do agree with Gary to try and include more of the environment (but just a little). For example, what is the 2nd checkered ribbon tail hanging over? My other comment is that the image seems a little dark. If you are running PS or something, it may be interesting to play with this a little to bring out the colors more.

TMO,
Tim

Thank you all for looking and taking the time to comment. I had a really tough time getting the hat itself. It was in a tiny cabin that was roped off. There was also a tiny bunk on the right of it. I attempted to get the entire surroundings but when I did, there was no one subject and the hat got lost. The cabin was just too small and getting a shot was really awkward. This was the best shot out of about 5.