Greg ,thanks for responding . Yea, you are right it will look better if they are cloned out .
Don

Boat feels lost among the others and is too centered in the frame. I'm not sure about your shooting options, but I'd like to see the sailboat larger. As shot, I'd crop quite a bit from the top and right, placing the boat in the right third and creating a pano crop. Then I'd clone out the parts of the boats at the left edge and left corner of the frame.
Looks to me like the white balance is off, too magenta.

Scott

Actually the light was like that and I placed the boat in the center on purpose but I appreciate the comments.
Don

it's amazing how much water colors can vary

The light was awesome that night at Mt Battie looking down on Camden almost a purplish hue in the air.

Ah, back to Camden!
Any Camden cows?
Used to visit after the Trek Across Maine, and when my son spent summers at camp in Washington.

Scott

Nice. I would tighten up that composition and improve overall treatment of the image.

sbeme wrote:
Ah, back to Camden!
Any Camden cows?
Used to visit after the Trek Across Maine, and when my son spent summers at camp in Washington.

Scott
Yea I want to go back and take more photos as the light in the AM was flat but Oh that night .
Did not think about cows as we have some black angus
I saw your cow photo ,nice gallery .

Kaden K. wrote:
Nice. I would tighten up that composition and improve overall treatment of the image.
Thanks kaden . Not sure what you mean about tighten up as vast space of the sea is important to the photo.

Let me exemplify.

Sure I would like to look at what you propose .

Ok, so this is a fast and dirty clean up with PS. Not the best idea obviously.
You need to reshoot using a tighter composition and a different lens and also
warmer filter/polarizer. This image as it stands its suffering from a reddish/
blueish overwhelming hue.

Just tighten up the composition as there are beautiful repetitive and colorful
elements. Avoid anything that detracts or does not add to that vision.

Your color is way too purple and the color of the water in my picture is as it was. But I appreciate your attempt.

I find the central location of the red yacht a bit dull, but if you like, obviously you want it there. Given what you want for the image, I'd suggest cloning out all masts without complete boats and all the unattached mooring buoys, partial boats, white specs around the entrance and perhaps the channel marker above the red yacht. That should reduce the clutter.

This photo was taken at almost dark so the the buoys are how the picture was seen and this was a long ways away with a 200mm .
I do agree about cloning the mast out on the left.
Thanks for your comments.

It depends upon your intent. If you lean towards straight reportage you must keep what's there, warts and all. If you lean towards art, what matters is the result.

Yea with LR and raw I have the latitude to do both

For some value of both....