Very nice capture. Love the features in the foreground rock.
Normally I like/want features in the sky, but in this shot I find the few 
clouds in the ULH corner slightly distracting.

Kenneth Waller

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Subject: PESO - Dawn from the clifftops


> This is a shot I took in February and never really did anything with.  I 
> revisited it on
> the weekend armed with a few more months of experience with photoshop.
>
> I processed the RAW file twice, once for shadow detail and once for 
> highlights and
> sky colour.  I then blended them in PS CS2.  I tried to keep it looking 
> natural so I
> haven't gone overboard...I just tried to do enough to render the scene as 
> I saw it.
> I've deliberately kept it a little on the dark side for that reason.  Any 
> lighter and I
> started to lose the colour saturation of the sky.  If I compensated for 
> that, then it
> started to look over ps'd and unnatural.  To me, this result is as close 
> as I can get
> to how the scene looked to the naked eye as the sun rose behind the cliff 
> face.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/y3ak86
>
> As always, comments and critique welcomed.
>
> Cheers
> James
>
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