What do you mean by saying that my photo has no theme and is a bit messy?

Theme is the soul of a photographic art photo. A photographic art photo always conveys to the viewer some of the ideas that the creator wants to express through the photo. This is the theme of the photo. In order to express the theme, the content contained in the viewfinder needs to be deleted when the photo is taken. You can't simply take a photo of everything you see naturally. Putting too many things that are irrelevant to the theme to be expressed will dilute the theme and make it look messy.

This work of yours is okay in terms of exposure and clarity. The problem is that the theme seems to be originally intended to express the joy of cruise ships and tourists in the Jiangnan water town, so as to reflect the beauty of life. . However, the riverside hut as a foil occupies too much weight in the picture. When people look at it, it is not clear whether you want to describe the life in the riverside hut in Jiangnan or the cruise ship. Photography is different from drawing. Drawing is addition, drawing things that are not originally on the white paper one stroke at a time. Photography is subtraction, getting the small piece you want from the complicated and chaotic scenery in the world.

One way to deal with such a scene is to use the zoom of the lens and put less huts by the river in the composition. Another way is to crop the image later.

To take pictures of people in the distance, you need a telephoto lens on your hardware. The longer the telephoto lens, the larger it can capture distant scenery.

Flash is generally used to illuminate nearby scenes when the light is insufficient, and is also used as auxiliary fill light. However, the power of any flash is limited, and as the distance increases, the intensity of light illumination decreases greatly, so for shooting large scenes and distant scenery, the flash is almost useless. You said that sometimes the photos taken with flash are completely black. This is because the natural light is too dark, and your aperture and shutter settings are not set according to the natural light. You rely solely on the flash. If you shoot like this, the distant scenery will be very dark. .

I tried cutting it, does it feel better? It would look better if I waited a little longer and had several yachts lined up in a better position when taking the photo.