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Stone Harbor Beach
Stone Harbor Beach
sonnyh


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Sand II (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-7D
Lens: Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
Location: Stone Harbor, NJ
Date: Jun 4, 2012
Aperture: 5.0
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/125
Date Uploaded: Jun 8, 2012

This was the beginning of a day that would end up in a storm. High tide and full moon. The sand on the beach had a really dark color to it and really attracted me.

Statistics
Place: 35 out of 72
Avg (all users): 5.6947
Avg (commenters): 6.2000
Avg (participants): 5.9143
Avg (non-participants): 5.5667
Views since voting: 681
Views during voting: 185
Votes: 95
Comments: 7
Favorites: 0


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07/31/2012 10:04:38 AM
Very nice color and this leads the eye very well.
06/22/2012 09:32:17 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club!

A lovely shot indeed but I do find myself echoing the masses...the trashbins do not do this otherwise perfect shot, any justice. Great leading lines, use of thirds, the light is nice and soft, there is an untold story here...but then the trash bins grab the viewer's eye and the fantasy is gone. They are such an obviously fake shade of blue and green, they take away from the lovely muted colours and tones going on here.

This was an Advanced challenge, cloning out of unwanted items is allowed so long as you are not removing a major element. The trashbins are very minor, a couple of clicks and eh wala. If you don't have PS or like to be a purist and do as little editing as possible, you could have lowered the POV a little so the beachgrass would obscure the trashbins.

DPCers love this type of shot and processing. So, frankly, without the bins, this could have easily been a very high-scoring shot, I would think top 10-top 15.

Sorry if I a coming across as hammering at you a little. That isn't my intention. But this is a tough site, there is no other way to learn than to enter and see what shakes out. Also it wouldn't hurt to tick the 'Photographer found comment helpful' box every so often. Failing to do so across the board comes across poorly.

Feel free to PM me,

Susan
 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/17/2012 03:27:36 PM
Love the Orton quaity of the image. Very inviting. Nice landscape.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/16/2012 12:20:40 PM
Did you bring some of your own sand of a different color for foreground contrast ?
I'm not sure the processing fits the image,just a taste thing I guess.
06/14/2012 02:13:48 PM
I really like the picture but I wish the garbage can wasn't there at the end of the road.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/13/2012 05:06:06 PM
Something very weird on the right side of the photo - should have cropped that processing flaw out.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/11/2012 02:34:27 PM
wonderful landscape! unfortunately your beautiful leading line directs me right to the trash receptacles!
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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