My World: Lighthouse

Hi Chris,

Nice one. Personally I'd crop the foreground, it looks even more mysterious when it's just floating in the foggy clouds.

Bart_van_der_Wolf said:

Hi Chris,

Nice one. Personally I'd crop the foreground, it looks even more mysterious when its just floating in the foggy clouds.

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Nice shot Chris...
after reading Bart's comment:

Wow, you are so right. I looked at this and loved it but then read your comment and scrolled it up to hide the foreground and now it has both mystery and fantasy. Great suggestion!
Maggie

Well, let's have a look at this iteration...mind you, I like them all and for differing reasons.

Well seen and captured Chris. I find both iterations worthy but I think Bart's advice was to crop even more so that there would be no foreground left at all. Btw, did you apply any filters or post processing? Thanks for sharing this.

I used a .6 GND to knock down the brightness of the sky so I could capture more of the structures, but I had it pretty high up with just a minimal differentiation.

I've cropped this image eight ways til Sunday and I find that cropping all the foreground just makes it buildings floating, which while interesting suggests nothing as to their origin. They could be on any hill, anywhere. For me, the connection to this specific place, overlooking the ocean, seated on a dismal plain sets the stage for plenty of intrigue and mystery.

But of course Chris, I didn't want to create the impression that you should have cropped or not. It is entirely up to you what to do with it.

Thanks for the info on the filters and the processing.