Choppy Sunrise

A windy, soon to be stormy sunrise in Huntington Beach, CA

Very nice! Looks like the start of the apocalypse, a very biblical scene.

Dude, I was wiping my screen, thought it had dust specks. Those are birds! Nice shot.

Pretty image!

VERY NICE. But i would love to see that image in another aspect ratio. It is too panoramic for my taste

davidfarina wrote in post #16930925
VERY NICE. But i would love to see that image in another aspect ratio. It is too panoramic for my taste

Here is the original 3:2 framing, only edited for contrast and saturation. Framing edits include removing the people on the left*, straightening the horizon, and, of course, the semi-pano crop.

The reasons for cropping are these: I trimmed the bottom because the beach is just pretty much a mish-mash of debris hidden in it's own shadow. I trimmed the top because I could not get a convincing blue above the clouds that match the reflected blue in the water. I DID like the cloud tops, and was sad to lose them - but to include them would have put the horizon exactly in the middle of the frame.

When you get down to it, I decided that the water is where the action is.

Rad

*Why the hell can I never see those people when I look through the viewfinder!

Very interesting...

i notice you've pulled the waves from the far right closer in to the left - tho that's exactly the problem area of this image... that dead space between the waves in the center and the far right.

I wish the waves in the center weren't in the center but further to the right filling in that gap.

Your cropping is right on IMHO and it is just that timing on the waves that I wish could be a bit better

I think you cropped well. A great pic indeed. Love the different hues in the water. Those waves are gorgeous.

Wallace River wrote in post #16929519
Very nice! Looks like the start of the apocalypse, a very biblical scene.

Seconded.

Your (OP) original crop works well imo.

The waves are nice, but all the debris on the beach really ruins this shot.

Love the colors in the sky and the way they play against the cresting waves. Very nice image and the crop works well.

I made a quick edit of your original.

I framed it so the beautiful sky is visible, copied a few waves from outside of the new framing into the visible area to make the sea look more dramatic. I also removed a bit of the wooden trash or whatever it is on the bottom of the sand. Sorry for bad copy work but i felt lazy :P

Numenorean wrote in post #16948573
The waves are nice, but all the debris on the beach really ruins this shot.

Right, that's not hyperbole.

Rather than clumsily cropping them out, I'd try to give them more detail/get the shadows out. In my opinion, the original shot does not even need that to be quite good; it just depends what mood you the OP wants to go for.

As Wallace River said, the original shot looks 'biblical', where the newest crop takes away that strong mood.

Apricane wrote in post #16952024
Right, that's not hyperbole.

Rather than clumsily cropping them out, I'd try to give them more detail/get the shadows out. In my opinion, the original shot does not even need that to be quite good; it just depends what mood you the OP wants to go for.

As Wallace River said, the original shot looks 'biblical', where the newest crop takes away that strong mood.

Okay let's all just take note quite good shots so we can have a not quite good mood....

Numenorean wrote in post #16953960
Okay let's all just take note quite good shots so we can have a not quite good mood....

The 'not quite good mood' (and 'not quite good shot') is very much your point of view here.

My point/opinion is that the debris on the beach contribute to a certain mood that I feel makes the OP's shot work.

You could have a different shot with no debris on the beach, which would make for another shot/mood that could also work, but it would be hyperbole to say that the shot is 'ruined' just because the OP's vision is different than yours.