Taken at the needles on Cannon Beach during a cloudless sunset. Not much is done to the picture other than changing the WB in the RAW Converter (temp 5850, tint +150). The only thing done in PS is a -10 on Brightness and USM stuff. The biggest annoyance was a nice dust speck on my new 5D which forced me to crop closer than I wanted. I'd like a little more negative space, but there is a spot (and a big one) just off the canvas on the left just above the horizon.
Thanks everybody! It's fun to ride a wave. I'm sure it will end soon enough...
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All I can say is WOW, and thanks for making me think of off setting my white balance and tint inside the camera on purpose to achieve color effects. I'll bet my new camera will allow me to do this completely internal now.
Hey Jason, congrats on the blue ribbon, great to see Cannon Beach on the homepage! It's a well taken shot, and fits the theme of purple, but it seems unrealistic to me (which also may be a reason it ribboned).
I would like to see a page devoted to ribboning Cannon Beach shots. Congrats on the retina searing quality of this pic. Dont care for the bird FWIW, and is suspect you might have cropped it out if cropping wouldn't removed the seastacks dome. Congrats!
Jason, welcome back to the most beautiful beach in the world! Sweet to see the needles in full glory! Next time you're down, stop in. Congrats on your Blue/Purple ribbon!
Get out of here!!! :) Goddamn, it´s gonna be hard catching up to you if you keep going like this, hehe :) Congrats dude, yet again (I am starting to feel like a broken record...)
Congrats, Doc, well deserved ribbon. Heard, you like to come up with a nice 5.3 after a ribbon - that may give us others a chance in High Contrast II or Unrelatedness...
Cheater.. cheater.. cheater! No fair sneaking over to Cannon Beach and taking pictures at sunset. LOL!
Congrats on another well deserved blue. I like your judicious use of RAW conversion parameters in your image processing. That is what set this picture apart from the others.
beautiful lighting and reflection, i like the positioning within the frame with the fact that the rock is comfortably off centre and also occupying the majority of the height of the picture. Can't make up my mind about the bird, on the one hand it brings a feeling of it being deserted all but the bird but on the other hand I'm wondering if the picture would look better without it...?
Back to comment. Coming across this the first time around I said to myself "There is the winner". Didnt even have to look at all of the entries (though I did). I dont think I could list all of the things that are excellent about this pic and I dont think I could find one thing wrong with it. This should be a print. Hope you are watching your score cause you are about to see a serious bump. Started you with my obligatory 7 as an image marker for my return view. Good luck inthe challenge (though I dont think you will need it).
Composition/Crop = Great (horizon is in the center but works here. the main rock silhouette is set on the right 1/3rd very well. Bird could have been in a better location. darn him!
Lighting = Exceptional (love the fact the sun is completely behind the main rock formation)
Color = Exceptional (The gradient is spectacular)
Creativity = Great (I have not seen many similar scenery images)
Concept/Story = Great
Focus/DOF = Great
Subject = Great (Meets challenge requirements)
Wow Factor = Exceptional
Marketability = Exceptional
Overall I love everything about this image. Especially the 'ghostly' apearance of the furthest rock formation. I don't think this image would have worked without it.
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