The Photo :I was inspired to title this Tides of Dusk since its basically taken from the same spot of the shot I took for the my last Free Study challenge I had entered. Except of course, this is the opposite side of the beach at Sunset. Rarely go handheld, had to here for the proper vantage point to omit the sidewalk and street, focused on the plant, used fill flash for foreground, can't tell since it's an HDR.
Post Process: Made of 3 Tone-mapped Jpegs derived from original RAW file. Did some color balancing to change blues to magneta, some Levels and more than a few rounds of sharpening which increased noise. I was forced to use neat image to remove it sacrificing some resolution I think. This won't score past 5.5.
Post Challenge- Well whatta ya know? It broke the 6.5 barrier!
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I was reading yoru comments and then the comments during voting and a lot of people picked up on the fact that you used a fill flash for the plant. I actually like this, I think it gives the eye a starting point in the shot which leads to your very strong leading lines that you have going on.
Your details are good, would have liked to have seen a little more detail in teh rocks though. I think for me the light on the water is off. There seems to be no reason as to why it is there and surely your flash is not that good?? Post processing is very good, POV and DOF are excellent.
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