Tidal Mill No.1

Not sure if this works, comments welcome. Taken at sunrise.

Cheers

taffy

Wow, works for me. Very pretty.

Things that jump out at me - the horizon/shore line could do with some straightening, as the pic is at an angle.

I might try experiment with cropping to get the shore away from the dead midpoint of the picture, but to be honest I'm not much of a cropper, and you do have a nice symmetry there between the clouds and reflections.

I'd probably also sharpen it up, and maybe try and bump the colours up some more.

But - beautiful image, though, regardless.

This is quite beautiful! :highfive:
- Now I'm at the real nitty gritty for ya. A teeny-touch centered for me. I wish the central clouds were off a bit more to the right.
- Something bugs me about the tones of the structures in the background.
- To me those structures are the focal point. There's a bright bush {center left} that's trying to capture my eye. I'd darken it a tad.
Hope that helps,

Marko

Love the lighting effect!

Detail, colour and lighting are very well handled and contribute to the visual impact. The sharpness problem may be due to a less than perfect HDR allignment by the program used or perhaps the compression.

Tegan

WOW! Awesome Capture!

Thanks for the comments.

The sharpness is down to the compression when converting to JPEG I think.

Marko - looking at it now, I think it was the central position of the clouds that made me question whether it worked.

cheers

taffy

I like the overall feel of the image. The warm tones in the background convey a positive feeling.

On the sharpness side of things, you are right that the jpeg compression algorithm can do this especially if limited to a low number of pixels.

Since I am not sure what tools you use for HDR or if this was processed as an HDR I can't comment much. But if you are are fan of the effect that Tone Mapping gives you on a high dynamic range image, then you might wish to poke around with the shadow-highlight adjustment filter in Photoshop. The added advantage is that you can make this none-destructive and isolate it to only certain areas of you image - all without out having to down-shift to 8-bits.

Excellent job overall, Taffy.

Regards,

MikeV