Bass Harbor Marsh

Where is the lighthouse? Yes the view looks fine to me. Like the triangles of color throughout.

Can you share your processing for the web? I am finding that coming from the D810 70mb files to a jpg to show here, they look overly sharpened when I post even though I don't sharpen at all.

This is great; a ton of geometry going on but just a couple of bold colors, which works well.  It's also nice that the grass in the foreground has a fuzzy texture to it that is similar enough to the slightly broken quality of the reflections so that the two mesh very well and leave the emphasis on the design.

Ed, Very Nice! I just want to be there and sit down in this grass...that is the inviting feel this images gives me. Beautiful colors and reflections with very nice textures. A small thing but I think I would crop just a bit more of the brightest edge along the top. It doesn't need much. A very neat capture!

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI.

Ed,

My absolute favorite time of the day.  The light on grass like this.....love it.  While this is all about the light, I really like how you've cropped/composed this.  The shadow play in the grass is almost just as good as the light and the color combo of blue and gold, well, that's just awesome; toss in the red and greens, this works wonderfully.

The only suggestion I have goes along with Nick's comment about a slight crop from the top.  Just enough to remove some of the brighter spots creeping in on the edge.  You could come down even further which may further emphasize the grass, light and shadows.

Great eye.

Lon

p.s. @Jim - The files from my 800E are only on average about 45MP. How are you getting to 70?  Maybe I'll send separate, but we'll see what Ed has to say as well.  I basically take the full frame image once done processing and reduce the size Image>50% just to reign in the beast. Then I've got an action that runs it through Tony's sharpening for the web action. When that's finished I tweak the opacity of the resulting layers to taste. Then save for web.

This is very nice. The warm/cool contrast between the grasses and the reflection works well and the textures in the grass are beautiful. Processing looks good to me. Well seen.

I love the play of light in this, Ed. I do agree with Lon's crop suggestion. The processing looks great to me. Nicely done.
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You've got a great mix of colored shapes here, Ed, set off beautifully by the blue water.  It's fun how we all react differently.  I like this as posted a lot.  However, I'd also try cropping most of the shadow off the bottom to see if that makes more of an abstract.

Here is a repost per the crop suggestion from several folks.

Jim: I have not been to the lighthouse in the fall for a couple of years as it always seems to be swamped with people at sunset. As for the sharpening for the web I usually start off with my processing on the full frame image, then some noise reduction, then I sharpen and resize the image to 1600 pixels on the longest side. Then save the image as a jpeg at the largest size making sure I do not exceed 1 MB. Then save for the web. The files I get from the D800 are around 70 MB when I start the process. I hope that helps.

Ed

I like the crop Ed, and the out of the box image.  Love the color combo and the geometric forms. Nice work.

Really nice warm light! A little unconventional, but works well to me.

Chris

I like how the image very naturally conveys the feeling of that time of the day. 

A warm, inviting image, Ed. Fine combination of shapes and colors. I guess I prefer the repost, but the original was fine for me.

Well done, Ed. When presented with a broad landscape in front of you, it was great to spot this intimate comp. Either image works for me. The crop doesn't alter the feel of the image enough to make a difference.