Central horizons aren't always bad, Roger, it depends on the balance of items either side of the horizon.
Where you suggest cropping has plenty of 'heaviness' in the bottom half with a 'lighter' area above it; so the scene doesn't look too equal, which produces a better overall composition.
You may be able to crop ever so slightly tighter on the bottom and left side if required.
Very nice image Roger. I like the way the lines of the rocks in the water lead towards the distant cliffs. Colour and exposure are very good too.
I think that the crop you use on this image isn't terribly critical - it'll just give a slightly different look. Your crop is fine, as is the original image. You could even go the other way and crop the original by taking a bit off the sky only which wll give more emphasis to the leading lines of the rock in the water.
Dave
Hi Roger,
I also prefer the foreground rock pools to the sky, so I'd go with Dave's idea to take 5% off the sky.
Thanks Dave for the reply.
I just want to mention that I really like the low angle that you used to emphasize the interesting foreground and its leading lines. Well done!
Thank you Mike your comment is appreciated!
Steve,
I have never heard it called the golden ratio; I had to look that up. Thanks for the new information!
I like your post-processing except for the strong halo along the top of the ridge that you introduced to the image.
My eyesight is not that good Mike, but I like the clouds and I pushed the contrast.
Hi Roger, it was a quick job to see what it would look like using a plugin to PSE10 called Topaz Detail3. You can selectively sharpen highlights, shadows, where large detail was boosted in the shadows and small in the highlights, but you can also adjust colour or colour casts in three channels, as well as white point, black point, the yellows were boosted to darken the blues and cyan was boosted which darkened the reds. The white point and contrast were both increased.
Sorry I couldn't be much help but if you can selectively choose channels and sharpen selectively I suppose 30px at 120% with a high threshold will be the sort of local contrast to use in the shadows. But I couldn't manage it using PSE.
Steve, thanks for the reply and yes I'm using PSE 10 and don't have that great of photoshop skills yet (i need to take a class) but thanks for the explanation I'll see what I can accomplish.
what a nice angle ,and the same to the pic. I;ll try to crop it with my image editor. Btw ,Im not good at PS..Im trying to learn something from the forum .
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