Theme: Before the Storm

[Michael Gerald-Yamasaki]

Greetings. I've always liked this one that I took and processed back in 2008... the early days of my renewed interest in photography after a 30+ year hiatus. Still don't understand the tilt/shift or faux t/s miniaturization effect. This is pretty straight processing except for blurring the bottom just below the pier and along the horizon (masking the mast from blur). Not sure why the preview looks so cyan on the bottom (darn browser color mismanagement), but imagine it with a little less green.

Thanks for looking.

Cheers,

-Michael-

Sigh. Should read Before the Storm but I can't edit the title.

[Diane Miller]

Nice. I could see it with a little less sky. But as noted that is a very odd focus transition below the boat.

I'm trying to convince myself that when I open it in PS it does appear just slightly less cyan than when viewed in Firefox. Just... And Safari (well-mannered because you embedded the profile) looks like FF.

Odd. But I'm on an older sRGB gamut monitor and wouldn't be seeing the colors on the PS image as you would. Did that happen in conversion to the lower gamut of sRGB? Checking the soft proofing should show it in that case.

[Dennis Bishop]

My first reaction was in line with what Diane suggested about less sky. That was largely to move the horizon away from the vertical center. But with the impending storm, I wondered if the story would be better told with less water, instead. I tried it out and, then, selected the sky and darkened it with a Curves layer gradient mask (no change at the horizon to full at the top of the image). Because the left and right sides of the sky are already dark, having the darker top gives what is to me at least an appealing tonality to the sky.

[Cheryl Slechta]

Hey, Michael, I changed the title I don't understand tilt-shift, etc. either but I like the image.

[Michael Gerald-Yamasaki]

Diane, Dennis, Cheryl,

Thanks much for your comments. If I were to work this again, I think some off the bottom would be my choice. Surprisingly, the t/s effect still seems to remain even if most of the added blur is cropped away.

Cheers,

-Michael-

oh, and thanks Cheryl for fixing the title. -M-