Jacobjacobi
Fishermen and Me - Revisited
The main camera is in the shop for a thorough clean and checkup; the weather is shocking and like everyone at my latitude I now work longer hours than the sun.
All that has actually been good for me as I am now heavily investing in studying my subject: history, composition, processing, printing - as much as I can. I have been finding Ian Plant's books and videos to be hugely informative and would recommend them strongly.
This has always been one of my favourite shots, but my original processing had some of traits that I am trying to avoid: a fear of shadows which results in my artificually lightening them beyond what the eye saw; a sea that is brighter than the sky; a loss of that dawn feeling; a loss of saturation in the highlights (lost because I dodn't know how to target that area without overdoing eveything else); over sharpening and finally a comp that followed all the rules - I admit that the balance of this new framing isn't typical, but I needed to capture the heaviness and dominance of the pier without giving up or handing over to the sky: this framing does that I think.
My original version is in the comments below.
Finally, apologies for not keeping up with my daily obligations: my wife and I are sharing the only PC in the house - hence me doing this processing at 4:30 in the morning.
Fishermen and Me - Revisited
The main camera is in the shop for a thorough clean and checkup; the weather is shocking and like everyone at my latitude I now work longer hours than the sun.
All that has actually been good for me as I am now heavily investing in studying my subject: history, composition, processing, printing - as much as I can. I have been finding Ian Plant's books and videos to be hugely informative and would recommend them strongly.
This has always been one of my favourite shots, but my original processing had some of traits that I am trying to avoid: a fear of shadows which results in my artificually lightening them beyond what the eye saw; a sea that is brighter than the sky; a loss of that dawn feeling; a loss of saturation in the highlights (lost because I dodn't know how to target that area without overdoing eveything else); over sharpening and finally a comp that followed all the rules - I admit that the balance of this new framing isn't typical, but I needed to capture the heaviness and dominance of the pier without giving up or handing over to the sky: this framing does that I think.
My original version is in the comments below.
Finally, apologies for not keeping up with my daily obligations: my wife and I are sharing the only PC in the house - hence me doing this processing at 4:30 in the morning.