jersey shore...

would love to hear any thoughts on these two. they're two of my favorites, but I'm wondering if there's anything different I can do with them. on the bottom one in particular, I'm wondering if it would be more important for the horizon to be straight or the pier. when I straighten the horizon, I lose some of the bottom, which I like a lot.

thanks!!

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You really have to straighten the horizon on the second one. I like them both, try cropping out some of the sky in the first one.

I'd say straighten the horizon but leave the pier as is. You can do this by playing around the skews and other boxes in PS. Do like the second one a bit more over the first one.

Nice work. I love the first one

thanks, all. vladimir...I was wondering if that would be possible. I'll look into it.

Ya I have fixed a couple shots like that where the fore ground and horizon where just really conflicting, its easier to do with water and sky on the horizon since deforming the image there is not noticeable since its not like your trying to line up blades of grass which becomes apparent. Here it would just be the water which is a mixed pattern of all shades and the sky which is a nice gradient.

Love the first, the second one is too tilted. I hope you can fix it, but even so I still like the first better.

+1 on #1. It's terrific.

Vladimer wrote in post #11121091
I'd say straighten the horizon but leave the pier as is. You can do this by playing around the skews and other boxes in PS. Do like the second one a bit more over the first one.

I just did a quick fix on in GIMP by doing this and it HUGELY improves the shot. Do it, you'll be happy. (I'd post it but you don't have image editing on).

Love #1. Very dramatic.

#1 is fabulous..l might be tempted to crop the very sliver of water off the bottom though, the sky adds to the feel of the entire photo.

thank you, everyone. very glad to hear the positive feedback and also very appreciative of the advice.

I really like the colors of the first. PERSONAL opinion would be to work the curves a little to bring out the shadows just a little and then pop the contrast.

I like the idea of the second but prefer the perspective of the first. Try converting the first into what you made the second and see how you like them.

They both are great shots other than the horizon in the 2d like several people mentioned.

i'm really liking the 1st one, great use of lines and i love the tones. i wouldn't have put the line separating land and sky right in the middle of the frame but thats about it.

the second one i like the b&w but it needs to be straightened. not really my cup of tea.

Definitely prefer color, and +1 for all the comments about straightening the horizons in the second

I would just make a rough selection of the top of the picture from just above the breaking wave all the way across and to the top.
Copy and paste it to a new layer, drag a guide down and free transform/rotate that layer.

Before you rotate you will need to move the center box to the lower right corner so the layer rotates around that corner instead of the middle.

You may have to do a little cloning or maybe not.

Pretty tough to straighten the pier, not one of the beams is parallel to the next.