[toni-a]

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

 

[Rainer]

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

[toni-a]

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

[toni-a]

Another One 

I am not very sure about the post processing 

 

[Rainer]

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

[davidmanze]

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!