Lighthouse

You have done well with the sun here Moira so it is not too intrusive and the burn out is minimised. Nice and subdued lighting. Also a good decision to go tight in on the lighthouse as there doesn't seem to be much of interest in the foreground. I was wondering what it might look like to have the lighthouse a little lighter - hence the mod. best wishes Catherine

You have done well with the sun here Moira so it is not too intrusive and the burn out is minimised. Nice and subdued lighting. Also a good decision to go tight in on the lighthouse as there doesn't seem to be much of interest in the foreground. I was wondering what it might look like to have the lighthouse a little lighter - hence the mod.

best wishes

Catherine

Hi Moe, This is one of your best shots to date IMO. This has good quality running through it. The composition is good. I know this place well, and there is nothing to use as a foreground to the lighthouse other than a fence leading off the rushes, but it's not strong. Your placement of the lighthouse in such a position with the sun offset to the left is a winning combination IMO. It looks like you have masked the lighthouse against the sky, and on my monitor I detect a very faint halo. This is quite a difficult subject to mask, but one way wold be to harden the brush more, and get in really close to the edges of the lighthouse. It's laborious work, but would be worth it in the long run. So, with that in mind, I would also move the middle slider in levels slightly to the right. I saw that your histogram was nicely balanced and that you had the whites and blacks correctly exposed without clipping them too much. By darkening the sky just slightly, you would create a more dramatic sky with the nrighter lighthouse, and the two combined would really set it off. Hope this helps. It really is a great image. Dave

Hi Moe,

This is one of your best shots to date IMO. This has good quality running through it. The composition is good. I know this place well, and there is nothing to use as a foreground to the lighthouse other than a fence leading off the rushes, but it's not strong. Your placement of the lighthouse in such a position with the sun offset to the left is a winning combination IMO.
It looks like you have masked the lighthouse against the sky, and on my monitor I detect a very faint halo. This is quite a difficult subject to mask, but one way wold be to harden the brush more, and get in really close to the edges of the lighthouse. It's laborious work, but would be worth it in the long run. So, with that in mind, I would also move the middle slider in levels slightly to the right. I saw that your histogram was nicely balanced and that you had the whites and blacks correctly exposed without clipping them too much. By darkening the sky just slightly, you would create a more dramatic sky with the nrighter lighthouse, and the two combined would really set it off.

Hope this helps. It really is a great image.

Dave