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    Hi All, had dinner (fish & chips out of the paper and glass of wine) sitting on the beach watching this unfold... life is good.

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    Procesed in CS6, bit of luminosity masking, levels, curves, selective colour.

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    Hi Don - looks like a beautiful scene. You have brought out the vibrance of the sunset really well and I think the lone paddle boarder adds. I would consider evicting the surfer to the left. I also might crop from the bottom just enough to remove the bright reflection of the sun which catches the eye. Great sky.

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    Lovely sky here - now I want english style fish and chips
    Don, I agree with Rachel's suggestion to crop from the bottom, and I also feel the FG is a bit dark - not sure if you were going for it like that? I would have liked a bit more detail there - blending exposures would have been a good option. I also wish the area above the sun wasn't as blown out as it is. Using f20 I am surprised there's not a sunstar around the sun...?
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    Don, Life is good when ever you're sitting by the beach during a beautiful sunset
    I agree with both of the suggestions so far and would also clone out the paddle boarder and I think Morkel is right on with the foreground being to dark a ND grad filter or blending of two different exposures would have been ideal to cover the tonal range here.
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    Thanks for the help guys... Always amazes me how blind you become when you edit your own stuff...

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    Hi Don, repost works much better for me. Quite like the clouds, incoming wave and the sunset colors too. I see a sliver of white in the bottom left and a bit in the top right that you may want to evict. Lovely scene.

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