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    Mike Fuhr
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    While traveling to Oregon for a meeting, I took an afternoon to drive the coast because I had never been there before. It was a dreary day, but we stopped a few places to take pictures. I like the composition of this one -- I added the sepia-type coloring to it and it actually grew on me. I'm interested in your thoughts/comments. Thanks.

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    Interesting subject with a nice feel to it. I would crop out about half the sky due to its lack of interest.

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    Alfred Forns
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    HI Mike .................. or crop the bottom and show more up top !!! Would process a little different but the sepia works for me. Basically would like more tonal range and seeing the tree sharper. Only cropped and added canvas.

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    If you add more of an uninteresting and bland top you are in essence taking away from the strength of your center of interest. I agree with cropping a bit off the bottom.

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    Roman Kurywczak
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    Hi Mike,
    I think working on the sky and doing a highlight recovery........or a multiplied layer on it........should bring out more of the tonal range. I do like the crop off the bottom.......as the smaller rocks were pretty distracting.

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    I do like the crop suggestion. I did a repost Mike. I used the Strong Contrast curve preset in PSCS3 as a starting point and then tweaked that around. Next a Shadows/Highlights Adjustment - Shadows slider to bring up the cliff and Highlights slider to increase tonal separation in the clouds.

    I think this would be a good B&W subject.

    Not sure where the artifacts in the sky came from. Not anything I did. Just showed up with the curves adjustment.
    Last edited by Robert Amoruso; 11-21-2008 at 09:18 AM.

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    Mike Fuhr
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    Here's another version -- I cropped a slightly different angle of the same subject and tried to incorporate a few of the suggestions...

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