Seascapes

[MarkNI]

3 I took this morning. Tips and hints for improvement appreciated!! Thanks guys!!

 

 

 

[Barbara]

 

Image a bit small to work with. Just lifted the shadows and brightened a little and used smartbrush on the sky with

 PSE9 

[ChrisLumix]

I like all three - and no disrespect to Barbara's edit, but I actually like the dark brooding quality of the rocks in your original.

 

I have two small suggestions -

1. Would the first shot have been better framed a tad wider, to get the longhouse (bottom left) firmly within the composition?

2. Just wondering... in the 3rd shot, I see a slightly different composition, where the cliffs on the left aren't there, but the windlass thing is more to the right? This would have meant walking to the left a short distance. But that's just a "what if..", the shot's still good. 

[MarkNI]

Thanks Chris. I would have gone further right for the 3rd shot if I had boots on.  The water was sitting about an inch deep on the harbour!!

For the second I was doing a balancing act, but will be going back with a wider angle lens to try to get more of the scene in.

 

Thanks for the comment and idea

 

Barbara, thanks for the reworking.  I had started to lighten the rocks but it stopped resembling what I saw.  I do like what you did with it though, thanks!!

[FUJI]

I have come back to this set more than once and each time I get......Itchy-Fingers.......I (like Barbara) ....want to lift shadows, to emphasise and to separate tones, and to nudge the colours.....not harshly but very subtly to lift the shots into another plane.

FUJI

[ChrisLumix]

I have come back to this set more than once and each time I get......Itchy-Fingers.......I (like Barbara) ....want to lift shadows, to emphasise and to separate tones, and to nudge the colours.....not harshly but very subtly to lift the shots into another plane.

FUJI

 

I think we've become spoiled by the achievements possible using HDR. We are in danger of seeing sharp contrast almost as an evil to be eliminated - yet surely there are times when it's the essential nature of the scene and shot, as here? I think it is absolutely right to take whatever measures to eliminate blown highlights, and perhaps SOMETIMES to lift shadows but at other times merely give a HINT of detail in them ... but too often (or so it seems to me) we want to iron out any and all extremes of contrast. 

[ACraddy]

I think somewhere between the edit and original would be best