Avalon Harbor Master's Office

[mamajan]

This is the Harbor Master's Office for Avalon California. It's located on the green pleasure pier. I just got CS3 and I had to try it out on something. This is a bit over saturated due to the blue and gold polarizer I was experimenting with. I actually desaturated it a bit in PS.

[MB1]

I like the colors although they don't look real-I'm thinking a bit too much blue/green.

For me the big problem is that the image just has too much going on in it and the ends feel cropped off. The composition would do better as a panoramic or crop to just one part of the whole image.

[mamajan]

How's this version?

[Tyson L. Sparks]

I disagree, I myself like the over saturated version, also the comp is cool with me. I like the busy look. It tells a story.

[swmdrayfan]

I'm with Tyson on this one. The vibrancy of the colors is what makes the shot. Plus, there's a lot going on, which pretty much sums up the purpose of this spot.
John

[Greg McCary]

I like the first one and also feel it's not to busy, but the guy in the yellow pants is distaracting. Clone him and maybe the lady on the far right.
Greg

[gahspidy]

I agree with MB1 here in that the colors look off. seems like the white balance is wrong. I have no problem with the saturation of them or the original crop.
I had good results with this when I used the Color Balance tool in CS2. Image>adjustment>color balance. I set the Red slider to +10, and the magenta to +5 for both the mids and highs with Preserve luminosity checked on.

[jkriminger]

If you were to blow this one up, I think the very red people would become apparent. Nice subject...maybe a night shot, less busy time?

[mamajan]

Gary, thanks for the tips. Now that I have Photoshop I'll try it.