Sun? Sea and Sand

[King4aDay]

Well, this would appear to be first time I've posted anything in months! Here are two from a very soggy Sunday morning in west Cornwall (you'll have to forgive the water splatters, keeping the front of the 10-20 dry in the pouring rain is a flipping nightmare!):

And a pano from sunset at Land's End in the evening. The wind had got pretty monstrous by that point and I literally had to crawl to edge of the cliff to set the tripod up. I couldn't get the composition i really wanted because the spot was too exposed and keeping the tripod still in the gusts was simply impossible, but the view was still pretty good

 

[Messiah Khan]

Stunning Tom! Absolutely stunning! Id maybe tone down the saturation in the second one, but the first is gorgeous. Much manipulation?

 

[King4aDay]

Much manipulation?

Loads

Cheers dude, it felt good to be out again, have hardly taken a photo all summer... just starting to feel the urge again.

 

[KrooKedUK]

Love the first shot, not too sure about the second... just doesn't do anything for me... but definitely number 1 is sweet.

 

[Hodders]

What PP have you done ? Love them.

 

[Hodders]

Could you post an original of the pano by way of comparison ?

 

[King4aDay]

Originals (just auto-levelled in LR):

 

[slothmeister]

last one is beautiful, almost has a look like it was painted.

 

[Jaysquirrel]

Those are amazing, I wish I lived near such landscapes.

 

[benjo]

Love them

 

[AtlanticP]

Love the PP, awesome images mate. They look perfect with the PP and I wouldn't change a thing.

 

[Phate]

Where have you been?!

 

[Bluelion]

Love them, dramatic and very colourful. Would make a good picture for the wall I think

 

[The_Abyss]

Absolutely love the first one.

 

[Amnesia]

wow...what beautiful colours

really superb

 

[phinix]

Wow! What did you axactly do with them to look sooo nice? I'm not a PS expert...

 

[PaulStat]

Those are bloody awesome, I too would like to know the processing done on these

 

[Amp34]

Beautiful PP, and that third image is good on it's own.

I assume HDR or similar and then possibly softened down a little (or was that a process of the HDR)?

You need to get rid of the dust spot in 1 though, I didn't notice it until I looked at the unedited version but now it;s glaringly obvious!

 

[King4aDay]

Beautiful PP, and that third image is good on it's own.

I assume HDR or similar and then possibly softened down a little (or was that a process of the HDR)?

You need to get rid of the dust spot in 1 though, I didn't notice it until I looked at the unedited version but now it;s glaringly obvious!

No HDR, I never use it. The first two are pretty much just selective levels and curves adjustments and a 20% saturation boost. The softness is largely a result of the long exposure times coupled with the fact that it was raining pretty hard.

The third took a bit more work, there's a fair amount of surface and directional blurring on the left hand side to remove the water droplets that were unavoidable due to shooting into the wind, and a selectively masked duplicate layer set to overlay blending mode to amplify the orange glow.

And yeah, I saw the dust bunny as soon as I posted it lol, cba uploading the fixed version.

 

[Mr Jones]

They are *drops jaw*