Drift wood and sunshine. Did some post photo editing to spice things up.

[Lujean Burger]

hout2.JPG by Lujean Burger on Light Stalking

[Arthur]

Can see why you liked the drift wood and sky. To me they compete would have one subject at a time and make two images. Maybe lighten the forground a bit. Interesting treatment keep going

[Gordon James]

Ah, Lujean, now I understand better what you were trying to do with your ‘sunset’ image!

With these sort of shots you do have to be very careful that your deliberate overprocessing does not end up causing other problems. Here you have obvious artifacts around the birds, even at this small image size. You also have that very bright area of sky, some of it burned out, that distracts from the main subjects within the rest of the image. Once you have fixed these I think you have a couple of options to make the composition really work.

You could, if the buildings are sharp enough, darken down the sky just enough to kill the burned-out areas and then drastically darken the foreground, leaving the wood just to provide leading lines to the buildings behind which remain brightly lit and become your main subject.

Alternatively, you could darken sky and middle ground significantly, lighten the foreground a touch and make the wood the subject. You will have to be careful about competing areas of interst however.

One last point (which I don’t think you should bother about here) – it rarely works to put the horizon straight across the middle of the frame. You end up, as you have here, with two competing halves of the image unless one half is sufficiently bland not to do that – in which case why included it?

But I agree with the above – keep going!

[Tersha]

Hi, @lujean-burger, would you please tell us a little about how you took the shot, and what you are looking to achieve with the processing, thanks.

[Sylvain]

Very nice treatment. would crop off some two-thirds from the sky. I think the action is in the foreground.

[Lujean Burger]

Hi guys. Thanks for the comments and the time to look at my photo.

The original photo was pretty bland. It was overcats, windy, and rainy, and not much light to play with. With the help of Nic Software and Lightroom I managed to create a lot more interesting image.

To me a phot is not just a photo. If you can increase the “interesting facor”, why not?

Thanks once again. Looking to post more photos for your advice and guidance!

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