Took this image against a powerful wind off the sea.
Was surprised to notice that when resized, looked like could possibly get by without further editing.
Details 1600 ISO, 1/4000 @ F6.7, Minus 0.5 EV 70mm Multi Segment metered.
Comments & reposts welcome.
Cheers: Ian Mc
Last edited by Ian McHenry; 08-21-2009 at 02:20 AM.
It is a nice composition, Ian. You have captured the crash of the waves well. Couple of things that could improve the image further: the twig at bottom RHS and the partially visible rock on top RHS are distracting - a pano crop avoiding both these could help; the image needs a bit of sharpening as it is soft; you could do some shadow/highlight steps in PP to balance the whites of the waves and shades on the rocks. TFS.
I felt the repost is too contrasty and oversharpened. I took a dig at it and here is the result. I cropped from top and bottom, used shadow/highlight adjustment, dodged the dark areas of the rocks and sharpened only little bit. Hope you do mind my playing around with it. let me know what you think.
Thanks Ramesh
I did feel I had overcooked the Pano and yours was the result I was after.
You have made a much cleaner image and the colour of the water looks a lot better.
Appreciate your good work.
Cheers: Ian Mc
While I still feel that Ramesh's pano has given image more depth decided to stick with my previous crop and darkened it quite a bit.
Thanks again Ramesh.
Cheers: Ian Mc
Hi Ian,
Ramesh gave some good advice and I liked his re-post. You may want to try a S/H adjustment on the rock area and then a seperate one on the splashing waves....taming the highlights more but keeping some of the splash brighter....to really make it stand out. The re-post shows a crop off the bottom.....and the top back and clone/patching of the rock out.....if you are OK with that......otherwise the crop is the right move.....and seperate adjustments of the rocks and splash with levels and S/H. Compostionally this is a very good idea....but I feel you can find a stronger splash area to convey the sense of power more.
PS I like the depth of your water splash more except for the highlight
Thanks Roman.
Appreciate the detailed advice.
Unfortunately my PSE skills are not up to the fine tuning !!!
However will have another tinker @ it on another day.
Meantime I have added a copy to my " More editing" folder.
Cheers: Ian Mc