The Pounding of Point Betsie

[Dennis "Curly" Buchner]

I shot this over the weekend as winter weather is blasting it way in.

Canon MarkIII
canon 16-35
singh ray vari nd
tripod
double bubble level
0.4@f/11
iso 100

[Grady Weed]

Lots to like Curly. Can you remove some of the blue tint? Please repost if you do.

[Dennis "Curly" Buchner]

Here it is with the color cast removed

[Ramesh Adkoli]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2775/4168319990_c08519a629_o.jpg

Dennis, It is lovely image. I felt it could be a great fit for B&W. Here is my take. I rendered it in B&W using Capture NX2 and while doing so, recovered the details on the wooden planks. Hope you didn't mind me playing with this image. Let me know how you find this.

regards,
ramesh

[Robert Amoruso]

Dennis,

You can remove the blue color cast in a levels correction, hold down ALT key and move white slider until whit is showing - remember this point.

Move slider until white disappears. Then select the white eye dropper and click on the brightest point to set it to white.

[Dennis "Curly" Buchner]

THis is with Robert's correction.

[susanschermer]

Hi Dennis, It is a lovely, moody image. I can feel the weather kicking up. I think I like the image you color-corrected to remove the blue. I believe it looks more like the original scene played out in that kind of situation. How do you feel about it?

[David Thomasson]

I love this image. I can feel the raw cold just looking at it, and I think the light being visible and the frozen tracks along the shore add to the overall feel of it.

I found the tilt of the light tower a bit distracting, but that's easily adjusted.

http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/8125/tiltx.jpg

I also took a crack at toning down the blue cast. Your corrected version appears, on my monitor, to have a slight magenta cast in some places. I think
getting the color right in this one requires some selective adjustments.

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/7071/lighthouse.jpg

[Dave Mills]

Hi Dennis, David's repost does it for me. On previous posts there are color castes which are now eliminated. The strongest difference is the removal of the caste from the clouds.I also noticed the LH was leaning and would have suggested that correction.
Dennis, you caught an interesting moment and framed it well.

[Morkel Erasmus]

stunning shot here and David's repost also works best for me, although the B&W also has its merits. the lighthouse also bothered me all the way until it was corrected :)

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Dennis,
All the bases covered already and I too like David's re-post. Nice action captured. There is a slight halo around RH tree...smoothing it will be the final touch!

[Dennis "Curly" Buchner]

Thanks everybody for your help going back there today to shoot it after 30 inches of snow this week