Road to the Easternmost Point in the Continental US

[Michael Pancier]

infrared shot of the West Quoddy Light in Lubec Maine. Stumbled across it in my archives and processed it with a lot of the Nik plug ins I have now that I didn't have back in 2008 when I took it - esp. the structure setting in viveza 2 which I used on the clouds. The land on the otherside of the inlet is Canada.

20d IR
10-22 Canon
f/16
1/15
ISO 100

[Robert Amoruso]

Well composed with the road as leading line to the lighthouse and proper inclusion of the pleasing cloud formation. Good use of Nik Viveza Structure's settings.

Overall, I feel a contrast tweek is needed. I tried a mild s-curve (Linear Contrast preset in PSCS4) and that was just enough IME.

[Dave Mills]

Hi Michael, as mentioned good leading line with enough interest in the sky to carry that much space. The use of infrared giving the image a different look which IMO adds to the overall...

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Michael,
know the lighthouse well.....I think the IR did add a nice look to this that is mostly lacking in color versions! I would exlore bringing up the lighthouse itself a touch more....even if it is the shadow side....just to bring it more into focus. Very nicely composed using the leading lines very effectively!

[Michael Pancier]

here's a repost with some of the suggestions...

[Myer Bornstein]

Wonderful image, It definitely looks better than some of my color photos

[Kobus Tollig]

Second post looks much better. Great shot well done

[Nick Palmieri]

Love the IR. I like the composition a lot and nice job with the conversion. It appears to me that the re-post has a lot more noise/grain in the sky. Will be going up to this place in a few weeks...