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see any difference?

i put it into iphoto and it looked better to me already. i went to the pic by clicking on it and 'borrowed' it from there.

there's a lot of beautiful, interesting textures going on in this pic, but the light was too dull to bring out the richness of the colours, especially the warm brown of the sand.

the frozen splitsecond of the foam, for instance, and the glimpse-of-infinity in the dark water at the left, midway up, above it.

i did a little tweaking, with contrast and sharpness mostly, to bring out the character of the clouds.

hope it comes through ok...

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Fri Mar 21st, 2008 at 08:25:09 AM EST
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I think your version is an improvement over Colman's. It retains the drama of the original. I often go for rich blacks myself in these kind of pictures.

I wouldn't have sharpened though - or at least not on the stones on the beach.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Mar 21st, 2008 at 10:52:10 AM EST
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However it also depends on hpw your monitor is set up! I think if we could compare, we'd find quite big differences because most people use monitor settings out of the box. Unwise for pro work.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Mar 21st, 2008 at 10:54:25 AM EST
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the photo is great, i love it more, the more i see it. why don't you do a version so i can see what you mean?

the only thing that was stopping it come through for me was a washy diffused greyness, which had a banalising effect, imo.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Fri Mar 21st, 2008 at 12:12:36 PM EST
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I tend to prefer more realistic renderings of natural scenes. I find that sort of drama over-done.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Mar 21st, 2008 at 12:20:29 PM EST
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I'll try the grinch filter ;-)

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by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Mar 21st, 2008 at 12:30:52 PM EST
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It goes with the I-hate-over-saturated-slide-film filter.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Mar 21st, 2008 at 12:31:54 PM EST
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