Water behaving poorly

[tbob]

Trevor, perhaps your discomfort with the wild (free ranging) waters is that you are too used to your domesticated ponds, cricks and such.
As to your photo, I can nearly feel the thunderous impact of that totally wild water assaulting the poor coastline. Your image nicely conveys the fury that is the unrestrained action of dihydrogen monoxide.

It was a completely different experience to shooting marshes and small streams. I now quite admire people who can do this as I realize the skills and patience required.

[kdoc856]

Hi, Trevor

I like this very much. As it is all about water, rocks and their dynamic interface, you might have a play with cropping out that "tame" water just to the right of the smaller water spray, and maybe a little less of the rocks on the left. It will magnify the remainder and really force the viewers' focus to the impact point.

[tbob]

An extreme crop for Paul, as requested.

[pnodrog]

Glad to see you have removed the white streak. The crop is a little tighter than I think it should be. There is a slither of rock on the left that needs to be either definitely in or definitely out..... I am very fussy in restaurants as well...

[pnodrog]

Because I do not want any one attempting to read my mind and discovering my dark secrets I have done a version that is more or less the crop that was lurking in it.



I may have gone a bit far with the tonal adjustments...

[tbob]

Because I do not want any one attempting to read my mind and discovering my dark secrets I have done a version that is more or less the crop that was lurking in it.

I approve of your crop.

I don't want anyone attempting reading my mind out of fear they will be appalled at how little there is to read.

[pnodrog]

Looking at the map of your brain causes me to be very surprised that we came up with different crops. I can only assume it must be your significantly larger domestic skills that made the difference.....

[Stagecoach]

Trevor,

Out of curiosity I opened this in ACR and used 80% Recovery to see if more detail could be pulled out of the water. The use of the Recovery tool is something I have heard discussed for the use of enhancing clouds.

Following that I did a very minor Darken Highlights in Elements.

I post it just for interest.



Grahame

[ShaneS]

I like the detail that Grahame has pulled out and his edit is what I had in mind when I suggested some burning. I also like the height of Trevor's crop and the width of L.Pauls.

Trevor, your brain image tickled my funny bone! It could be my hubbies if you replaced all reference to cars to the ability to tone me out when I am not talking about what he is going to eat next or something in any of the other quadrants

[Mike Buckley]

Fabulous improvement to the white water, Grahame. We often don't realize that the white tones of water and clouds require the grey tones to be much more prominent to fully display the white tones. We also often don't realize that there will be a lot more grey tones than white tones.

As for the map of the brain, note the typo in the comment at the bottom. My guess is that it really is an accidental typo, but considering that no part of the brain is available for use as a spellchecker, the typo is especially funny.

[tbob]

Thanks Grahame for demonstrating the recovery tool. A valuable addition to my armamentarium for processing. And a great version. This is why I like CIC; excellent value for the money (even if it is free! Proves my dad's comment that "free advice is worth every cent you pay for it" was wrong).

Mike's observations on the grey tones is spot on.

I am knot so sure about the knead for a spellchecker now the computer nose watt words ewe pict, witch spelling is wright, and cheques the words. That part of hour brain will probably varnish over thyme.

[Stagecoach]

Trevor, Mike

I'm pleased you approve of my attempt. I first read about the recovery slider use for clouds in a Scott Kelby book and it's useful to know it can help with water spray in situations such as this.

Another point of note with this image is that the white point is being limited due to a very small bright area of water between the rocks on the left side and treating that separately would allow a bit more emphasis of the white in the main wave. I did not address this. I'm sure treating very minor highlight areas is commonly done by many but it's something I have only just started dealing with within skies and mention purely for the 'learning' aspect.

Grahame

[terrib]

I must admit that I am undecided about the photo although I do think it is very interesting how the spray is displaying. But I will tell you that I thoroughly enjoyed your narrative. Had me smiling!