Salthouse Sunset

Kim Walton

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13 Jun 2012 - 8:59 PM

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Nicely composed seascape.
The thumbnail doesn`t give the light on the pebbles justice.
I might of tried to tone down the highlights in the cloud.

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banehawi (Critique Team)

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14 Jun 2012 - 3:31 PM

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Welcome to EPZ Paul.

I love the way the light has been captured on the shale, - very attractive.

Youve shot directly into the Sun, so you have caught some lens flare, - those coloured circles in the image. Best to wait until the Sun is covered, or just below the horizon for the best Sunsets.

The composition has the horizon exactly in the middle, and accorsing to the generally used composition rules for sunsets, its should be 1/3 the way from the bottom or from the top, so theres either more sky, or more foreground.

The bright area where the Sun is can be covered by moving existing cloud over, and it benefits with the application of a warming filter.

Ive loaded 2 mods. one as is with the sun covered, one of the flares removed, warming filter, and a little more contrast; second mod is a crop with the horizon 1/3 from the bottom, - this required adding more sky, using content aware scaling in Photoshop CS.


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Hope this is helpful,



regards




Willie

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Davesumner (e2 Member)

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15 Jun 2012 - 3:57 AM

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Hi Paul,

Welcome to EPZ and the Critique Gallery, as usual you have had some great critique above and as always I am late in adding my little bit.

I love your shot, apart from the shale it reminds me very much of the 90 mile beach here in Australia. I just love the sky, the sunset, the water and the light on those pebbles. Unfortunately, I think that it is just too much for this one image and I think that as Willie has said, the sky and the pebbles are quite strong in the image especially with the horizon in the centre. I also am not a fan of the darkness of the shot and want to see more of that lovely reflected light on the pebbles.

I have done a mod also, (suprise suprise) only I have lightened it up loads in Adobe Camera RAW (ACR), I thought the water was looking a little blue so I corrected it in Hue/Saturation layer in Photoshop (PS), I added some red and yellow to selected areas and cropped off that overly dark foreboding sky. I then removed the flaring and sharpened.

Hope this helps

DaVeS

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