dunescape with storm clouds, toned down colour version

[peter delaney]

i have toned down this image to be a more realistic version...

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hi Peter,
Combined critique from Dave Mills and me from Florida!......We feel all 3 work well for different reasons. This one has a nice pop to it but we both feel the brightest area on the right should be toned down a bit.....just to not draw the eye and let the eyes wander to the peaks. Lovely detail and contrasts in the sky too!

[Dennis "Curly" Buchner]

Very nice composition peter, love the textures and how you have the dune line in the photo

[Robert Amoruso]

Peter,

I agree with Roman and Dennis.

If some additional processing from the RAW could get better control of the highlights, I suggest you rework this image for that as Roman suggested.

[Morkel Erasmus]

of the colour versions this one works best for me Peter, although overall the B&W takes the cake :)

did you alter the sky at all? it seems as if some edges around the dunes show levels signs of selective levels adjustments? I would be tempted to hammer this one with a pseudo-HDR workup!

[thijs broekkamp]

The picture, compo etc is very nice but that blue sky is way to blue for me.

[peter delaney]

Thanks Roman and Dave appreciate you both taking time out to comment on image , agree 100% on the RHS ,whites need toning down.
thanks Robert, morkel and thijs for comments

peter