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Back having keepers, need your opinions - toni-a - 12-12-2016 I came back here and started taking pictures lately, but I haven't till recently started having some good keepers. Taken yesterday, took advantage of low tide Canon 10-18 @18mm F16, 750D @ISO 100 1/10s, RAW converted with DXO 10 Back having keepers, need your opinions - Rainer - 12-17-2016 Since noone commented so far, I will just add my 2cts ... Technically, I believe that f/16 is already too much ,,, but the effect will only be visible if you print large or view in full resolution. ... I had taken f/11 on a crop-1.6 in order to keep diffraction effects limited. The raw conversion is done nicely, there is structure in the dark areas as well as in the sky. The layout suffers (in my opinion) a bit from the centric positioning of the sun ... you have placed the horizon somewhere near the golden ration ... why not do the same with the sun. (a bit more on the right would have been nice) Just some thoughts ... Rainer Back having keepers, need your opinions - toni-a - 12-17-2016 Many thanks Rainer , I stayed merely one hour at that place watching sunset and taking picture those were moments of pure enjoyment of photography where you forget your feet are in the water in December... I did take one with the boat off center however dunno why with exactly same settings this one came sharp the other one had boat movement Back having keepers, need your opinions - toni-a - 12-19-2016 Another One I am not very sure about the post processing Back having keepers, need your opinions - Rainer - 12-19-2016 You tried to get detail (as much as possible) in the highlights as well as in the dark areas ... ´that makes it look a bit artificial (for my taste) ... there is a hazieness in the picture that just doesn't look real. I just had it in PS and adjusted gamma (to about 0.7) and saturation (about -20) ... that's about what I had done with this shot (at least without having the rawfile itself to play with). But anyhow ... YMMV. Rainer Back having keepers, need your opinions - davidmanze - 12-19-2016 Nice shots, but as has been said maybe the holed rock could be darkened some, it's so nice that we can now recover shadows out of the blackness that it's too tempting to get it the same as the bright areas, leading to an image lacking in dynamics and realism, I'd recover just a little detail leaving it darkish which gives a lot more drama, but there's nice composition of a great subject. The curved horizon gives it a sense of looking down, I'd be well happy with the shot! |