Sunrise over Misty River Thames

[ChrisH]

Shot this morning from All Saints Churchyard, Marlow. Your comments gratefully received.

[tbob]

The foreground is excellent. Is there a way to darken the sky and river a bit?

[ChrisH]

Thanks Trevor. I have tried to darken as you suggested. Can't do much more but would welcome suggestions.

[shreds]

Chris,

I like this very much particularly the gravestone areas.

The extremes of contrast unfortunately leave areas of the sky and parts of the river with little detail and like you I don't seem to be able to find much more that can effectively be done without excessive manipulation of the image.

I did however like a soft monochrome conversion I tried, as this alters the effect of the burnt out sunrise area and was able to push the contrast a little.

Hope you don't mind...

[IzzieK]

I like the original version, Chris...there is something about the misty morning and the colour that stands out for me.

[deetheturk]

Nice image Chris!

[ShaneS]

Count me in with others that prefer the softer background light in the first image Chris.

[Mike Buckley]

I just love nice graveyard scenes and this is a nice graveyard scene. If it was my image, I would crop the color version on the left to eliminate the gravel walkway and at the top just barely below the top of the trees.

[steve welle]

I just love nice graveyard scenes and this is a nice graveyard scene. If it was my image, I would crop the color version on the left to eliminate the gravel walkway and at the top just barely below the top of the trees.

I really like the monochrome version. The bleakness seems to go with a graveyard. But rather than cropping the gravel path I would use photoshop to clone some of the grass to cover it.

[dje]

Very nice shot Chris.

Dave

[bnnrcn]

I prefer the coloured one.