Quoddy Head Cove

Gallery: LandscapePosted May 8, 2012168 views5 comments

Rocky cliffs surround a cove along one of the "Bold Coast" trails at Quoddy Head State Park in Downeast Maine. 3 (vert) image pan.
Canon 5DII, EF17-40 @ 17mm, 1/30sec @ f11, ISO 100.
Sometimes we have some beautiful clouds here in Maine, but as luck would have it on the day I went hiking (as usual) there were none to be seen. In the original shot, the sky is hazy and washed out, so I swapped out the sky.

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5 comments

Comment posted by Todd Liotine on May 9, 2012 at 2:00 PM

Hello Bill, Very nice scene but the processing looks a little off, it has a hyper sharp hdr ish look, just feels a little unnatural.

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Comment posted by Bill Caldwell on May 9, 2012 at 3:20 PM

Thanks Todd, yeah, after I uploaded it I noticed something looked odd about it. Something happened between the full res image and this downsized jpg image. I think I fixed it and I'm reposting it.

Registered on October 10, 2011, 62 Posts, 508 Comments

Comment posted by Nick Bristol on May 9, 2012 at 10:28 PM

Hi Bill, What a great looking place this is. I have always wanted to make it to Maine, this shows me why!

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

Registered on February 1, 2004, 752 Posts, 14140 Comments

Comment posted by Wayne Jones on May 10, 2012 at 7:57 PM

Gorgeous scene, Bill! Must be a fantastic place to hike. It does look like difficult lighting to handle, so I can see how some of the bottom may be a bit brighter than some would expect. (But I find that depends a lot on the monitor ever since I got a calibrated wide-gamut screen.) Great job on the sky swap. It looks like a perfect match for the water and the general contrast of the scene.

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Comment posted by Bill Caldwell on May 11, 2012 at 7:42 PM

I don't know why, but I had a hard time with this image getting the reduced/jpg image to look good. If I don't sharpen it at all it looks fuzzy, if I sharpen it even a little it has that over-sharpened look. The full res image looks a lot smoother. Anyway here it is again, hope this looks a little better!

Registered on October 10, 2011, 62 Posts, 508 Comments