Am I done yet? PP & general C&C

[RobNZ]

After a bit of PP critique if you wouldnt mind.

Ive done about as much as I think it needs, other than possibly bringing the green out in the trees on the left?

The rocks are nice and sharp at 100% and the background is suitably sharp enough I think.

Maybe do something with the ghosting surfers?

Bring out a little more saturation in the ocean?

 

[artoledo]

Its a pretty cool shot but my only critique would be that it looks crooked. Maybe its just my eyes.

 

[Scatterbrained]

That might be the beach "horizon line", it looks like it falls to the left while the mountains behind are relatively straight.

Looks good to me.

 

[iamthepip]

WOOOOOW i hope you dont mind i saved this pic its great!!!

btw so not crooked!!

 

[cailinp]

beautiful!

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

It looks slighty crooked to me. Look at the trees, they all lean to the right. Same with the buildings. Plenty of visual cues.

Whats going on in the rocks is amazing. I'd almost tell you to crop out the buildings.

 

[Geaux]

Whats going on in the rocks is amazing. I'd almost tell you to crop out the buildings.

That was going to be my suggestion. Crop it off at the coast.

 

[myfotoguy]

Nice shot! I don't know how much green Iwould bring out in the trees on the left, it may get distracting. Maybe straighten it.

I like how you inlcuded the rocks in the foreground, leading to the water, which I imagine crashing to the shore, which then leads my eye to the village, then to the mountians beyond. Nice!

 

[RobNZ]

Its a pretty cool shot but my only critique would be that it looks crooked. Maybe its just my eyes.

That might be the beach "horizon line", it looks like it falls to the left while the mountains behind are relatively straight.

Looks good to me.

There is a psuedo false horizon caused by the beach being a bay but not obvious from this angle, but quite a few people have now mentioned something is not quite right or appears that way so I will tweak it.

WOOOOOW i hope you dont mind i saved this pic its great!!!

btw so not crooked!!

:thumbup:

beautiful!

:thumbup:

It looks slighty crooked to me. Look at the trees, they all lean to the right. Same with the buildings. Plenty of visual cues.

Whats going on in the rocks is amazing. I'd almost tell you to crop out the buildings.

Thanks, I was thinking of at least dropping the cut off building to the right.

Whats going on in the rocks is amazing. I'd almost tell you to crop out the buildings.

That was going to be my suggestion. Crop it off at the coast.

Tried that look, it would lose its local feel, Norfolk pines are the visual clue leading a local to take a second look and go "hey, I know where that is".

Nice shot! I don't know how much green Iwould bring out in the trees on the left, it may get distracting. Maybe straighten it.

I like how you inlcuded the rocks in the foreground, leading to the water, which I imagine crashing to the shore, which then leads my eye to the village, then to the mountians beyond. Nice!

My composition on site was pretty much exactly as you described, looks like I pulled it off.

I will repost an adjusted version a bit later today.

 

[Derrel]

I think it needs a bit more local contrast. It needs just a little bit more "sparkle". The lower tonal values all seem too close to one another. It's a lovely time of day, but that time of day feeling is not quite coming through as realistically as I would like to see it coming through. it's "close", but not quite there in terms of conveying that twilight time of day feeling. I think maybe if there were some larger dark-toned areas and just a bit more contrast between the lower tonal values that this thing would just leap to life.

 

[RobNZ]

I think it needs a bit more local contrast. It needs just a little bit more "sparkle". The lower tonal values all seem too close to one another. It's a lovely time of day, but that time of day feeling is not quite coming through as realistically as I would like to see it coming through. it's "close", but not quite there in terms of conveying that twilight time of day feeling. I think maybe if there were some larger dark-toned areas and just a bit more contrast between the lower tonal values that this thing would just leap to life.

At first I was like "what the hell you talkin bout willis", then I was like Google is my friend and 5 minutes later this is the result along with horizon straighten of about .25 of a degree and used a grid overlay to check a few lines.

So the images, the latest tweaks first, followed by the original from above and the actual untouched original from RAW.

Are we done now? Lol.

 

[photonewbie86]

Great shot !!!

 

[AJake]

I actually like the buildings in the pic. Glad you straightened it a bit. I'm no pro but I would vote this a calendar worthy pic. (Thats one of my goals, to be put into a calendar. lol)

 

[skieur]

Bitter Jeweller and Derrel, both spotted a few problems.

The rocks and the water are the main part of the image and the buildings don't really belong in the shot. A slower shutterspeed on a tripod using srgb colour space and not Photoshop RGB would have produced better colour on the net. Photoshop RGB space may produce better colour but it does not convert well on web sites or to many printers. It is better to work in srgb.

As it stands now, the best solution would be to crop out the buildings and much of the shoreline and lighten the rocks to bring out more detail in postprocessing.

skieur

 

[page_tyson]

Pretty awesome picture.