Early Morning over the Inlet

[philmony]

Took a few shots over the inlet on my early morning commute - did not see the ducks until I uploaded to pc later ...

[JK_Photo]

I love the colour in here, but it begs for panoramic!
The expanses at the top and bottom detract from the image as a whole. The mainfocus/subject is that wonderful curving boardwalk. Where is it I want to go there?
I've done a quick crop and a bit of cloning to show what I mean.

[philmony]

Great crop - thanks for the advice - I'm relatively new in photography - I pride myself (though) in being able to recognize the moment that 'begs' for a pic to be taken ... - and the curvy boardwalk (just looking at it - even though I know exactly where it goes) sparked the same message for me - where does it go?? You have shared a new tecnique with me - panoramic - never really thought of it until now ... thx Phil

I love the colour in here, but it begs for panoramic!
The expanses at the top and bottom detract from the image as a whole. The mainfocus/subject is that wonderful curving boardwalk. Where is it I want to go there?
I've done a quick crop and a bit of cloning to show what I mean.

[BamaFru]

Oooooooooooooh. How blue is this?! Is this for real? I am on a laptop...never know what visual discombobulating fantasies you may receive there!

As warm a fantasy as gold Gold is. (Sorry had to plug my current love.) This is the opposite spectrum appeal.

Maybe I need to get out more. (Ha!) What a moody feeling I get here. I can't tell about the "ducks". I see some things in the water, maybe this is my visual, but who cares!? They look a bit odd, on my screen...but I'm not drawn to them.

Ok, the lighting and moodiness is fabulous. I do like the crops...maybe not as extremely pan...but a little off the distracting tree branches...and this coming from the set against the dead center horizontal FRU!

Keep em' coming!

[ShotsbyScott]

Nice shot Philmony! And I also like he crop by JK. I wonder what it would look like with the other
twigs and the stumps cloned out on this side of the walk.
Oh well. I hope you don't mind.

thanks,

Scott

[CB Photo]

Great job, I love the blue.

[philmony]

Hi BamaFru - Yup, that blue is for real - no touching up or play with white balance at all (shot on automatic white balance) - altho I did shoot 2 others white-balanced against grey - nice pics but it detracted from the mood - so it got cut

I love your gold pic - def. a poster shot ... great work
I have also (lately) done a bit of work with 'light' painting - not landscape stuff but just of various people (portraits) against deep colored backgrounds - as soon as I have an acceptable pic I will post it.

Phil
ps - the ducks only become distinct when looking at the pic full res. 2272 x 1704 - I guess thats why I missed em ;)

Oooooooooooooh. How blue is this?! Is this for real? I am on a laptop...never know what visual discombobulating fantasies you may receive there!

As warm a fantasy as gold Gold is. (Sorry had to plug my current love.) This is the opposite spectrum appeal.

Maybe I need to get out more. (Ha!) What a moody feeling I get here. I can't tell about the "ducks". I see some things in the water, maybe this is my visual, but who cares!? They look a bit odd, on my screen...but I'm not drawn to them.

Ok, the lighting and moodiness is fabulous. I do like the crops...maybe not as extremely pan...but a little off the distracting tree branches...and this coming from the set against the dead center horizontal FRU!

Keep em' coming!

[BamaFru]

"I love your gold pic - def. a poster shot ... great work"

Oh how I wish I could call that my own! Alas it belongs to JK.

Anyway, keep em coming!

[Eagle_Eye]

I really like the blue color here. As far cropping and cloning, ShotsbyScott has my vote. Congratulations on being there at the right time.

Dudley