I think your onto something (idea wise) but this is not quite there at least for me. Its not that the composition is all that bad, perhaps its a "lack" of drama. I did a high-contrast treatment in PS and that did not do it for me and then I went into filter gallery and played around with those affects and found some I liked. Might be something that you wish to investigate.
Hi Paul,
I think the composition is OK here as the rapid has a nice curve to it along with the wave in front. I think the drama Robert is looking for might have actually been achieved with either a faster shutter speed (as it is very bright) or had you gotten some colored light from either the shore/sky/or fall colors. Another posssible choice is very slow shutter speeds (4seconds or more) but with the bright light that you had.........without special filters.......impossible.
Let me know what you think,
Roman
"I went into filter gallery and played around with those affects and found some I liked."
I'll have to look. Which filters did you like? Not sure if I'll have all that CS has, (I use PS E5).
I like Roman's B&W version. I never got around to trying a conversion after messing with the filters. I would go with that Paul as a good alternative to the filters. If you use filters, you have to post that in the Out of the Box forum.
I forgot which one I liked so will have to go back and try it again and let you know.