The Rays of the Sun

[Denali]

C&C most welcome. I also have a colored and a bit more edited version here if you are interested.

 

[EchoingWhisper]

C&C most welcome. I also have a colored and a bit more edited version here if you are interested.

The crop is weird.

 

[backward]

Excellent picture both versions. I like the crop its different, thanks for sharing.

 

[EchoingWhisper]

Oh oh oh, I thought you were just taking a picture of the sky. Didn't see the sea.

 

[Frequency]

The cloud patterns on the left end and the rays emerging out are excellent; for the rest, i am not happy with this image. Darker regions disturbs too much.... sea appears over sharpened too...

Regards

 

[Beast95]

I like this! The clouds are a little black but it makes it kinda interesting... Also, the colored version doesn't look very realistic to me. idk.

 

[inspectedpanic]

I like the shot, have you tried playing with the red filter levels to lighten the clouds a little, it wouldn't be so contrasty though, I like it I just had a play with it in Photoshop, details gone from the clouds but you can still get some detail out of it. Red filter doesn't do what I thought it would but hey every days a school-day!

 

[Denali]

Thanks for the tips guys. I lightened the clouds in photoshop and the results are somewhat questionable. :meh: I also cropped out the sea in the b&w version, it just didn't look right.

 

[Majeed Badizadegan]

Why are you cropping this way?

I'd like to see the image without a weird crop.

 

[Frequency]

Sorry, i did not see the color image.... i think the golden hue is good; the new version of B&W has solved the problem partially; it happened for the better that you removed a dead sea

Regards

 

[paigew]

the version you posted the link to is beautiful! I don't really like the black and white. I didn't even know that was water, thought it was grass or something. But yes, the color one is great!

 

[Denali]

Thank you for the advice. The thing is that the sea was unsalvageable, so I decided to cut it out and turn the focus towards the sky more. I realize that the crop appears to be awkward, but the more I look at it, the more I seem to like it.