Tranquil Stone

[Don Lacy]

This is the third image from my last outing to this stretch of beach it turn out to be a very productive morning.

1D MKIII, 17-40 f/4 at 17mm, 15s at f/16 (I am really liking the effect of dragging the shutter on my ocean images), Manual Mode, Evaluative Metered, ISO 100, Raw, warming polarizer and 2 stop hard edge Grad

[Rachel Hollander]

Hi Don - You've worked this spot well. On this one I find the sort of line of clouds/mist a bit in front of the other clouds to be distracting and breaking the image so to speak. I think the rocks and the water are what are interesting here and might even consider cropping at the horizon (a scroll crop there looked good).

TFS,
Rachel

[Colin Driscoll]

Good effect. It could do with a brightness contrast adjustment to add drama. Bightness -50 and contrast +50 looked better to my eyes.

[Morkel Erasmus]

You worked this spot well, Don!
IQ on this one is the best of the 3 for me, not sure if you changed your workflow a bit?
I like the comp as is, the clouds are a nice touch. Maybe increase midtone contrast in the image and also add some saturation to the clouds/sky?

[Roman Kurywczak]

really like this one Don! I love slow SS's in locations such as this......so works for me all around!!!

[Andrew Aveley]

Great third image :) Soft pastel colours enhanced by the use of the shutter speed and fg subjects. Welldone here !