Coniston Water Sunrise

[johntwo]

 

 

[Clicker]

D'you know John ........ Hmmmm...... I just can't make up my mind  about this one ...so I keep coming back to it  to see if I can fathom out why.. I presume you have placed a textured  overlay over the original  but I cannot decide if it works  for me ..... I think it's the vertical lines, especially the blue one,  left of the left hand boat that distracts me most ...  It feels a bit like looking through a rain streaked window  and if that's the effect you wanted ... it works ..  Sorry ....  because I rather like the effect on the  view on the far side of the lake... It's the way it changes the sense of perspective  with the vertical lines  covering differing planes ... I'm probably not explaining this very well  so I hope you can see what I mean . It's maybe  an experiment ..I  do it all the time... sometimes it works ... sometimes it just feels like I haven't picked the right texture .. I 'd love to see the original  too as   it seems you caught a lovely light ... 

[johntwo]

Thanks Polly.  Can't disagree with you.  It's one of those situations where in retrospect you realise that you've gone too far with the processing.  This was my original before I decided to play with Topaz Studio 2 which I've had for a bit but never got around to using.    It is better but still may not hit the mark.

[Clicker]

Ooooh I much prefer that rendition of it John.. so much more depth to the image . ... that works for me ...  

[Hatter]

Yes - I also prefer the 2nd version.

 

[Ryewolf]

Like Clicker I also looked at this several times and I also prefer the second image.

[loki]

i like the first, but i'm not a big fan of that particular texture.  maybe something with a few less vertical runs.

[johntwo]

Thanks all for the additional comments.  The original was made with a painterly finish because it might end up framed on the wall (That's another way of saying my other half likes it).  I think that I went too far with the processing in the first version shown above.   That's  the trouble with playing.

[Clicker]

How often  that happens  and  is so true John ...   Knowing when to stop is the hardest part ... I always save sometimes dozens of snapshots in the history palette   on my workflow ...I've learned my lessons over the last 25 years  that you can waste /lose  a lot of time and hard work if you don't.

For those of you who maybe don't know,  you can increase the number  of times you can "undo" the history states in Photoshop from the measly default number of just 20  to a maximum of 1000!... see the link below  on how to do it ....

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXRS0wTh6_8

 

[Kobione]

Nice view John, but the second version is the best for me too!

[johntwo]

Thanks Dee.