More from the Gower ...

[Clicker]

 For some reason I must have altered the menu  inadvertently on my camera as I took photos  for a couple of hours just in JPEG   instead of RAW...   So PP  was not as simple  to fix the lighting  on the foreground... and it was a bit noisy ...  ... so I have added a bit of oil paint to it 

[Paul]

That's a lovely high quality image Polly.

Paul.

[Fogey]

Absolutely stunning, Polly.  Whatever post processing you've done certainly works.

[Clicker]

 Sometimes  it's easy not to check the camera settings  especially if  you haven't changed the circumstances  of your shoot . I think in the  bright sunlight earlier in the day  I must have changed  the menu  by mistake ... and  as I  shoot through the viewfinder usually and not the screen, I usually have the display switched off too ...doh that will teach me to double check in future .

The original was so dark in the foreground I nearly binned it ...

Thanks  you two ... ... I hate    deleting photos ... a throwback to the days of film when every negative  cost me !!I

Yeah  maybe  I could have cropped it so there was less silhouetted  foreground I suppose  but I remember I really  wanted the  lowlit foreground  to show ...

Here's what it looked like ... 

 

[Clicker]

 Cropped to 19: 9  format   without processing ...    Hmm... the more I look at it ... the more I quite like it .. Weird  isn't it how  you can get something in your mind  and  get a bit blinkered  about it ...  Comments always   appreciated  ....

[vanguard]

I quite like the cropped 19:9 version, it has a last light of the day feel to it.

[Clicker]

Thanks Van … yeah I feel better about the balance in the cropped  version of the original…    The area silhouetted in the original made the ratio  of darkness  far too heavy  and  consequently unbalances  the image.

[Fogey]

There's now't wrong with that, Polly.  I love it.

 

Edited November 9, 2022 by Fogey

[Clicker]

Thanks Fogey …  sometimes in striving for a particular outcome… an unexpected  accident can occur that turns out not so bad  in the end.    It took a while to see it though as I was so fixated on composing the foreground originally … doh … 

[markknittle61]

Beautiful image Polly.

I had an old Canon 7D that had a lock mode, One day I was just getting started downtown and the camera locked up and wouldn't do anything. I thought tha camera was dead and need repair, I ended up giving up and coming home only to find that it was an easy fix.

[Rybear]

port eynon taken from oxwich point...cracking image ..well done on recovering it

[markknittle61]

Polly, what software are you using for post processing?

[Clicker]

Ryland... you certainly know that area ... I hadn't said where it was  and you knew exactly  the place .. Yes I stayed  at Oxwich Green just 10 minutes  walk from that spot ... 

Mark .. I use  Photoshop 20 and 22  for my processing (though I use the NIK collection occasionally...   )  I struggled on this though as I hadn't  shot in RAW  so  going into the raw filter on a jpeg I had to do quite a lot of noise suppression ...

[Stravinsky]

Looks very nice Polly 

[Clicker]

It quite difficult to take a really bad photo in this part of Wales …so I can’t take all the credit … heheh