Cote d’Azure

[griangraf]

September 13, 2006 at 10:15 pm

Hi all,

Shot of the Cote d’Azure in May from a few years back. Taken with Fuji S7000 and 0.79x extender. I would love some advice, C & C on the shot. I kinda like the shot from the array of colurs point of view but technically I’m not sure. Go Raibh Mile

MJ

[KPM]

September 13, 2006 at 10:26 pm

Nice image & nice colours, nothing much wrong with it, but it doesn’t jump out at you.
The sky seems a bit washed out and I think it detracts from the overall image.
Perhaps if you cropped out the horizon, sharpened it a tad and increased the contrast it might have a bit more impact?
I didn’t want to do this myself as there is no note re diting your pics.

Rgds

Kevin

[griangraf]

September 13, 2006 at 10:37 pm

Cheers Kevin,

Edit away. I think you might be right about the sky.

[Marcus]

September 13, 2006 at 10:37 pm

I agree that it might be better without the sky. Also, the horizon looks slightly curved and personally, that would annoy me. I like the colours, though!

[griangraf]

September 13, 2006 at 10:41 pm

Cheers Marcus,

I think the curved horizon is from barrel distortion I think, (which I never noticed in any other of landscapes taken with this setup before).

[KPM]

September 13, 2006 at 10:46 pm

Hi there,

here is a very basic edit (I only have elements 2 on this machine) and I am certainly no expert in digital manipulation.
I think it looks better – what are your thoughts?

Rgds

Kevin

[griangraf]

September 13, 2006 at 10:51 pm

Thanks Kevin,

Looks good! I’m going to play around the image as well. I am more of a butcher than a surgeon with digital manipulation!!!