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Photo from Monday morning, not a great deal of color satuartion on the rocks but not the easiest of lighting conditions.

Very pleased with the D2X ability with noise.


2 second exposure at f22/18mm

I think this is a great image. I love the exposure and the subtle colours. I would like to see the bottom quater of the image cropped as I think this would enhance the composition.

With regard to noise the image at this size does seem very smooth, particularly given the length of exposure and dark areas. Excellent. What ISO is this shot at?

Hi,

Love the shot. I've been sitting here for the past 20 minutes in my kitchen starring at it on the laptop screen thinking I could be some where else. One of those shots that gives you a lot to think aboiut, nice one.

Mark

This is an excellent shot. One thing needed in pics like this is some foreground interest and you've achieved that brilliantly. The light is spot on and everything is tack sharp. I'm inclined to agree with Craig that cropping some of the bottom may improve the shot.

That's a WOW shot. Love it LD.

Beautiful shot John! Be proud

This photograph is testament to your skill at handling exposure, got no idea how you got a difficult scene to look so contrasty the dark sillhoutes of the rocks and the highlights of the water complement each other so well. Well thought out composition and a beautiful image, Inspiring work!

wow fantastic! It is almost there!

I had a tweak... hope you dont mind... Just some small PS...



- just cropped, added saturation (40 odd), highlight / shadows (10% shadows)

really makes me miss the Northern Beaches... well done!!

JD

great shot
When I first saw it I was wondering if it would benefit from a pano crop because the foreground rocks didnt work that well for me.
I was about to post a cropping suggestion but jdear beat me to it.
This crop was exactly what I had in mind.

Steve

That's a beautifully framed and well conceived image, great foreground interest, my eye seems to wander from the interestign rocks in teh foreground to the whispy water breaking over the rocks and then the coastline. Seems terrific exposure, bloody nice image, deserves to be printed...

The crop and extra sat just gives it that zing!

Love both these versions, a really well captured shot! I'd be sending this one off to get framed

Thanks everyone! Really appreciate the feedback and suggestions. i must say I do like the crop to a pano format, maybe a bit less saturation for me but I do like the image JD.

I'll have a bit of a play and take it from there.

nothing like getting out of the bed really early eh?

It looks photoshoped but it isnt. Wow excellent composition!!!

Good foreground interest, sharp and certain surreal quality. I like both image versions lostdingo. Great image! One to be proud of having taken. I also really like JD's pano crop. I think you have a lot of options you could try.
cheers
marco

nothing like getting out of the bed really early eh?

um...
we on the east side of Australia really have no choice!
Sunsets not over water really are boring!

Love to see what you do with it Lostdingo!

Wish i had the motivation to capture images like this in the mornings!

Jonathan

This is an excellent shot.
The exposure is spot on with detail in both highlights and shadows.
Brilliant.

rokkstar-appreciate the comments, not always easy to grab detail without blowing out the highlights

jdear-motivation also comes from java, caffeine, cino and oh yeah my Jack Russel wakes me at 5 a.m. anyway and says "time to go"

marctrov-yes, he did a good job of the pano didn't he, now what do I do? Flip a coin? Naw, I'll print both large and stare at for a couple of weeks then send to a printer

nito - probably just as well I don't fiddle with photoshop a great deal as I am no expert

Lostdingo

proven method to see if you like something... if you like it the next day... and the next day after... you keeping coming back to something and you like it then its a winner!

the closest beach to me takes 45 mins to get to, so getting there early doesnt really do it! (used to live 5 mins away and never took a photo... go figure!)

JD

hmmm, 5 minutes might be too close, the caffeine may not have kicked in by then!

Takes me about 45 minutes to get to most places I prefer also, sometimes an hour but what can I say, I really like the the areas but need to find some more "hot spots" a bit closer while the sunrise is sooooo early