Recording the creation....

[Dylan8i]

of new land, on digital sensor. :-)


my cousin takign a picture of the steam cloud formed when lava from hawaii volcanoes national park hits the ocean. this white rope was as close as we could get, and the bench collapsed about a month later.

[markg740]

thats pretty neat. my girlfriend is hawaiian and she goes to hawaii all the time. she is so lucky, ive never been.

[Dylan8i]

yeah my cousin ( the one in the picture, and his gf) live in hawaii in KONA so i went to visit. they work for hawaii forest and trail tour company so they knew everywhere to take me. it was awesome.


any commnets on the photo, i'm thinking maybe cloning the top rope out, but i think the lower one actually adds to the scene.

[MarcusK]

Hey there, That's a nice shot!

Something didn't feel right in the colors, so i tried 2 things, not much of an expert in color (me) but it just felt better for me!

In Photoshop, color balance, gave it -10 (towards Cyan) and +5 (towards green)
other option was inverting the + and - so +10 (to red) and -5 (to magenta)

As for the top rope, i had mixed feelings about it! but i guess you're right to wanna clone it out!

Hope this helps,

Marc

[Dylan8i]

yeah i think the color being weird is from the scan. and since i only play aroudn with color tone graph, and this is a scan it doesn't have one.

thx for the feedback

[julsoph]

Yep...this is a cool shot, and the title fits well. I'm not sure about cloning either rope out, actually. If you cloned out the bottom one, your cousin might look like you sort of pasted him into the photo...and the top rope balances out the bottom one for me...personally, I'd leave them alone.
The best part of this is the steam cloud being echoed by the clouds in the sky.

Emily