Dawn Durness Beach +2Reposts

Great light! I love that the cloud reflections are casting the warm glow on the sand - matches the scene well.

Beautiful. Rich colors really set this apart.

Great shot Eva. In addition to what has already been mentioned I like to lower point of vkew you took here. It works quite well.

Once I posted this image, there seemed to be a red cast at least on my monitor, so I decided to bring the reds and magenta down each about 20 points each. Does it make a difference?

Oh, Mommy!

Wow, I love that color. This looks like one of those moments where you wish you could just freeze time and enjoy it for just a little longer.

EDIT: Just saw the repost - I think I actually like the original post a little better. It seems the repost, although possibly more accurate, has lost some of the life of the original post.

Eva, I agree with Brian. The original post is better, although if we had never seen the original I'm sure the repost would look great as well.

Another beautiful scene, Eva. Really some wonderful light and colors here. The repost probably is more accurate to the scene but the original post does look really nice with a bit more pop. I do like them both.

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

I like both version. You did a great job with the light. The details and colors all work well together.

Beautiful light. The silhouetted rock looks a but funny to me not quite very dark but holding no detail. What about just letting it go to black?

Wonderful mood, great colors and details. I agree with Kah Kit about the foreground rock - looks a little strange to me.

I like warm images and bold color so I prefer the original. Love the light on the clouds and the sunburst on the horizon... that sky is pretty awesome! I also think the fg rock and the sand also could have some more detail

Stunning luminosity and clarity in this image, Eva. The color is magnificent as well. (Gotta love the Velvia 50!) I think the sea stack looks stark in comparison to the rest of the scene and sort of cuts me off from your signature "far away" look. A different kind of comp for you, where I've gotten so used to the other... The fg area of beach is totally smooth, and if not for the sky, would leave me pretty flat. If you were striving for a mood of "amongst the sea stacks," perhaps a crop from the bottom, for less beach, would help?

Eva, you're really opening my eyes to some great locations with all your Scotland photo's.

I prefer your first post, the colour looks better to me. I like your placement of the stack too with the smaller rock balancing the comp nicely.

Gary.

Oooooh, I like this!! Very nice and crisp, with excellent detail. Just noticed the repost - I actually prefer the original overall, although the sand color in the repost looks nice. The original has much more impact IMO. Very pretty.

Hi Eva These both look fine to me but it looks like a little bit of lens flare has crept in. Does the tranny show this? I have found this happens when you get a very thin coating of salt spray built up on the filter or glass. I might also do what Kah Kit is suggesting and let the stack go to silhouette it largely is in my trannies.

Hi Ian - Thank you very much for your input. I really appreciate that since I am still trying to work through a good workflow for scanning and processing my film images. I do not have the original transparencies in front of me since I am away in Maine until Monday but I do have my workstation with me with a variety of scans I took with different parameters in Silverfast. The original image posted is a multiple scan image in Silverfast to improve dynamic range and reduce noise. It did that but I think it also created, accentuated the artifacts you and Kah Kit mentioned. This post is a single scan with the noise cleaned up with Nik Define 2 but I still needed to darken potions of the left stack which I did in LR4 but to a much lesser degree than what I would have to do with the original master file of the image I posted. BTW I personally find it easier to use LR than PS even with film scans which I discovered last week and contrary to what I mentioned to you at some point on the workshop. I just can't have too many large scanned files in the specific LR4 catalog. LR is just more intuitive to me especially now with LR4 than Photoshop CS5 or 6.

I also want to thank everyone for your comments and critiques.

Beautiful light, larger version is very impressive. Composition with arranements of clouds in upper corner is nice and balanced. I like the original more , deeper contrast accentuates the light.