Day 2 - Castle Hill Lighthouse
by CapeSail

Comment by bdenny:
Very nice image...and don't worry, I have plenty of sky shots that look way worse than that! I need an ND also :)

Day 2 - Castle Hill Lighthouse
by CapeSail

Comment by Bernard_Marx:
It is a wonderfully composed shot.

Day 2 - Castle Hill Lighthouse
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Comment by KarenNfld:
I love lighthouses and this is such a cool looking one! I like the perspective in this. The sky might be a bit bright.

Voyages
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Comment by EstimatedEyes:
These are all nice pictures, but all three are detail shots and you might have swapped one of them out for an overall picture of the ship to give context to the story. I would have swapped out the shot on the upper left, which should have been a lot tighter on the main subject imo.

Day 2 - Castle Hill Lighthouse
by CapeSail

Comment by TDCollins:
You're right Jeff, a ND graduated filter will work miracles for you when dealing with bright skies. This is a great looking lighthouse and would be fun to photograph.

Day 2 - Castle Hill Lighthouse
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Comment by Firsty:
I don't know if your monitor is calibrated but on my one this lacks a little contrast (shot needs to be a little darker)
the water, rocks and lower half of the lighthouse all seem to blend together tonally
by lightening the shadows and darkening the highlights you have lowered the overall contrast to much
any chance of seeing the color original as I like the shot and would like to try a few different B&W looks, jpeg this size would be fine :)

Day 2 - Castle Hill Lighthouse
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Comment by UNCLEBRO:
yep, that's the only thing that lets this otherwise great image down, the blown out sky.
maybe try some dodging and burning?

Day 2 - Castle Hill Lighthouse
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Comment by bassbone:
I like the perspective - good job bringing the rocks in the foreground into the image.

I need a ND filter as well. One option you might consider is to perform tonemapping on this image. You took this in RAW and it should have enough information to try with Photomatix Pro, etc. It's not perfect in most cases, but may help avoid the blown out sky a little. Underexposing the image a little and using Phmx Pro has worked pretty well on some of my b/w conversions with bright sky.

Day 2 - Castle Hill Lighthouse
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Comment by Retroesque:
Wow - those rocks look fake - SMILE!

Love the cut outs on the rock face, nice viewpoint.

Voyages
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Comment by Monique64:
Love the choice of subject range. The tones are lovely and muted. One of my favourites.