Ocean view.....

Slinwagh

Slinwagh

Slinwagh

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Comments and critique please !!

Also is there any easy way to get the horizon to appear horizontal? I have tried but the image appears skewed.

Thanks !!

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In PS CS2; Use the measure tool to drag across the line you want to be straight, then do Image > Rotate Convas > Arbitary > OK. Easy :)

EDIT: Oh and i love the shot. Maybe some gurus could improve it even more with some processing, but i like the light and dark you can see. Nice
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Scam said:


In PS CS2; Use the measure tool to drag across the line you want to be straight, then do Image > Rotate Convas > Arbitary. Easy :)
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Thanks for that, i only have PS Elements 4, I will check it out......
 
It only needs a slight tweak, CS2 was saying 0.8 degrees anti clockwise and it looked fine after a quick crop.

Composition wise it's quite nice, sure it doesn't follow the rule of thirds but cropping it to do so would lose the main points of interest, ie the wave in the bottom left and the sunlight in the top centre. It is a bit flat though but there's plenty of scope for boosting saturation, I've had a wee go but I'm not that sure if I've over done it or not. If you want I can post what I have.
 
Yeah feel free to post. To be honest I was a couple of minutes late in taking the snap, my camera was back in the cabin and by the time I got back to the deck the sunlight breaking through the clouds was softer, 2 minutes before there were 4 or 5 very strong beams of light, one of them hitting a ship.
 
I take it you took that picture on a boat. If so then you did a reasonable job of making sure that the horizon was levelish. My horizons are all over the place on flat solid ground. Nice picture. Like rpstewart's edit too.

Blackvault
 
It was actaully quite hard, some of the shots are very slanted.

We went whale and dolphon watching on a catarmaran, and taking pictures on that and trying to keep the horizon level was horrendus! The pictures of the whales and dolphins are not very good, they were close but hardly came out of the water, just about got some fins !!
 
I prefer the original actually. The other post brings out the colours more, but I don't think is as moody.

I'm a real beginner at this, but here is my 2 minute photoshop attempt.

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