Editing: B&C, dodging burning, slight rotation/crop, more dodging/burning, size, usm, little selective blurring, b&c, final touches with dodging/burning =).
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Congrats on another great ocean landscape. This has a lot of similarities to an existing Ansel Adams mountain image that features foreground boulders. I like this one better than "Aperture".
Great comp andexcellent deatials. An evocative shot, well suited to AA's style. The only point I can raise is that some parts of the distant cliff look slightly too dodged in the mid-tones. Lovely sea spray and the birds make a good contextual touch.
What a shot! I love the contrasts of light and dark in the foreground boulders, the white sea mist and crashing wave before the dark serrated cliff face, leading our eyes up and beyond to the delicate cyrus clouds. Thanks for an extraordinary photo!
Fantastic image in its own right but the tones in the top half look very 'middle zoney' if that's a correct phrase. I wonder if the big difference between the two halves would appear less if you cropped away sokme more of the foreground rocks?
Like Adam's image, "Mount Williamson, The Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, California", except better! This should be one of the top finishing images for this challenge.
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