Cormorant Hours

[Adhika Lie]

Reworked a file from the archive. This is a blue hour shot but I feel like B&W gives it a more classic, timeless quality. Tonality worked on LR and then Nik SEP for the conversion.

Nikon D750, Nikkor 35-70/3.5AI-S @ 70mm, f/5.6, 3secs, ISO 100


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[Michael Thompson]

Nice, I like the soft water motion capture. could use a little brightening maybe. ~MT

[Don Railton]

Sorry for the slow response Adhika, just back from Holidays. I like the B&W conversion and the sea especially. I think I would like a little more room between the rock and the RHS border however. Maybe consider extending the canvas??

DON

[Jerry van Dijk]

Composition and BW are great. This is a lovely scene. I'm not sure how I feel about the ghosting on some of the cormorants due to the long SS. Not sure if this could have worked, but could you have shot one image with fast SS for the cormorants (including the top of the rock) and a second one with the long SS for the water, blending the two together in PP?

[Morkel Erasmus]

I like it - but also think the whites are a bit grey and muddied, open up highlights and whites in the histogram a bit and it will surely pop!

[Andrew McLachlan]

Hi Adhika...I like this scene a lot but is a touch dark for my tastes...with the few tweaks Morkel mentions it will surely pop!

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Like this a lot, Adhika. The quality of light is wonderful and like how the Cormorants stand out. I would like to see a bit more detail in shadow areas, and feel the tangency of the rock on RHS might be solved by cropping in about 1/2".

Geoffrey

[Arthur Morris]

I love the image design (but for the need for a bit more space on the right), the degree of blurring in the water, and the B&W treatment. The motion blur on the birds is problematic. You could clean most of that up by working large with the Clone Stamp Tool.

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[Adhika Lie]

Thanks everyone! The comments are really appreciated!