Not Meant to Be

Work took me to the coast today so I decided to stick around for sunset. I headed down to Seal Rock for the first time. A colorful sunset never materialized but it was definitely a moody monday evening.

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30D 4" @ F22, 23mm. 2-stop hard GND & C.P.

- Bryan

Well done. You may have not gotten the blazing sunset, but this image has great mood!

The ocean emotion, even without the sunsets and rises, still got good stuff.

Nice shot Bryan,

Cool, nicely composed image. Looks like you made the best of it given the conditions.

Tyson

I'd say ya made lemonade out of a lemon here! Nice shapes/forms/textures here. I like it! My only nit would be those sea mounts in the background are a bit over sharpened. But hey it's a JPEG right?!

Haha yea still shooting in jpeg over here - - I definitely need to make the jump across, but lack the computer power to do it right at the moment. I think another contributing factor to the over-sharpness is flickr. Im not thrilled with what their site does to my files. Is that a compression issue, and if so does anyone recommend an optimized treatment for web?

In our tips section you can find the below most excellent sharpening method courtesy of Marc Adamus:

Sharpening for the Web—Marc Adamus

- Take full res image and reduce size to between 1000 and 1300 pixels. As much as 1300 for detailed forest scenes and such, 1000 for rock and more simple images. Apply "Sharpen" filter (easy enough right?) twice or even three times at 1300-1600 pixels.

- This will create a very oversharpened, noisy, mid-size image.

- Futher reduce image size to your web preference, such as 600 or 700 pixels.

- When reduced, this "tricks" Photoshop into applying an ultra-fine USM that you simply cannot acheive through other methods and all with maybe a 5-10% increase in file size vs. traditional methods such as regular USM or PK sharpener - which is rarely a problem.

- Play around with this technique and make it work for you. Every image is different. Sometimes I'll apply a sharpen filter 3 times at 1500 pixels and then reduce for an even finer sharpness, but other times it has too much of an adverse effect on color and resaturation is necessary. Sometimes I'll just lasso an area and apply the filter more heavily in one section before reducing size. Just experiment!

- Last, keep in mind not to sharpen skies too much as this will unecessarily increase file size. Do local touch-ups with 'sharp brush' to improve textures/definition in sky and water!

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This is what I use for my images and it works quite well for me. This does assume you are using Photoshop though.

Thanks Rick, i'll play around with that.

Yep, all it needed was the right light. Definitely worth revisiting.

Too bad the sky didn't light up for you, because the rest of the image is luminous and full of interest with all the rocks, stacks and movement in the water.