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    Bill Randall
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    A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum. The highlights changed.

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    Hello Bill,

    Great color on the monolith. The shoreline makes for a nice leading line to the monolith.

    I would try desaturate the red a bit as it appears to have blocked up the detail. I also feel that the image needs a CW rotation (water line in BG). I also tried and liked a Shadows/Highlights correction in PSCS5 where I used the highlights slider to darken the clouds and the mid-tone slider to lower cloud contrast and make them POP.

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    Hi Bill, just a reminder to state the shooting specs which will help us better analyze your image. Agree with Robert's suggestions especially relating to the sky.The detail needs to be brought out.
    I also notice there is dark areas around the rocks. Not 100% sure but looks like you were burning in those areas and over darkened. It doesn't look natural...

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    Yep agree with the two posters, needs some attention to bring out the best of it.

    Tim

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    Hey Bill,
    Yeah.....agree with above assesments. Many times with landscapes it's a pain too.....becuase we have to save at such low quality.......something didn't work in PP'ing or the save.....so just keep that in mind when re-posting.

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    I am not sure if you burned and dodged, but I am seeing some odd dark haloing in the foreground large rocks. I also think pointing the camera down would have given the shot a less "head on" feel.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris Korman View Post
    I am not sure if you burned and dodged, but I am seeing some odd dark haloing in the foreground large rocks. I also think pointing the camera down would have given the shot a less "head on" feel.
    I am not sure what you mean here. Can you give me a little more info? No dodging or burning on the rocks. Not sure what is going on but other than some curves stuff not much more. Beats me. I don't remember the rocks looking like that.
    Thanks, Bill
    Last edited by Bill Randall; 02-21-2011 at 08:09 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill Randall View Post
    I am not sure what you mean here. Can you give me a little more info? No dodging or burning on the rocks. Not sure what is going on but other than some curves stuff not much more. Beats me. I don't remember the rocks looking like that.
    Thanks, Bill


    I've circled the areas in red.

    Re: "head-on" There is a natural curve of the beach but it is abruptly cut b/c the camera is pointing largely straight forward as opposed to including the front curve of the beach.

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