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    I had a friend come up to shoot with me at my new favorite beach just five minutes from my house When we got to the beach we could see lighting out in the Atlantic Ocean and the thunder heads added some nice dramatic elements to the sky as twilight turned into day.

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    Very dramatic with great light and technique. Works well here.

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    I like the rich sky colors, clouds and forground rock. Tech's worked nicely, love the smooth blured water.

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    Don - nice colors and smooth water. I like the rocks as a leading line too.

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    Real nice composition, Don. Love the light, lines, water smoothness and how the touch of blue in rocks compliments orange in sky.

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    You rocked this one, Don! Love the jagged rocks upfront, juxtaposed with the glass-like water surface, and the colours on the horizon add some nice "oomph"
    You had some great dynamic range to work with here, so I hope you'll allow me this B&W experiment
    WDYT?? Both have merits IMHO...
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    Make a wonderful B&W Morkel thanks for taking the time to do it do you mind telling me how you processed it was it PS or Niks Silver
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    Quote Originally Posted by Don Lacy View Post
    Make a wonderful B&W Morkel thanks for taking the time to do it do you mind telling me how you processed it was it PS or Niks Silver
    Thanks Don, glad you liked it. I used PS B&W conversion, tweaking the red and yellow channels to the right to get the lighter tones in the sky and water, tweaking blue and cyan channels to the left to get darker tones in the rocks and clouds. Then used selective dodging and burning - burned the clouds some (shadows, 5%), dodged rocks (midtones, 5%) and added some midtone contrast overall.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Morkel Erasmus View Post
    Thanks Don, glad you liked it. I used PS B&W conversion, tweaking the red and yellow channels to the right to get the lighter tones in the sky and water, tweaking blue and cyan channels to the left to get darker tones in the rocks and clouds. Then used selective dodging and burning - burned the clouds some (shadows, 5%), dodged rocks (midtones, 5%) and added some midtone contrast overall.
    Thanks will have to play around with it
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    Quality image as is. BW is a nice idea but this is a great composition , exposure and technically cool image

    TFS

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