The beach

[CMPhoto]

Here's a few pix I took at the beach and tweaked in photoshop. Would love thoughts from others.


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[Nick Saglimbeni]

What's up, NoodleMcNoodles...here's my comments:

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Looks great. The post-work is a little forced, but it actually works because of the contrast and the reflections. It's taken on a very 1960's James Bond kind of feel. Hot.

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This one doesn't work for me. The photoshop is way overdone, and the sky looks completely fake, which is given away by the halos and glows wrapping around your contours. That said, if "fake" were the look you were going for, then this is actually kind of a hot painterly postcard. Reminds me of the old 2-color motion picture prints from the 1930s (relax guys, I went to film school...I'm not 90)

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The most "believable" of the three. Very nice and clean. Good tone and color.

[CMPhoto]

Thanks for the thoughts Nick. I like the first one, I think primarily of the color variation. It's stylized, but seems to work, and it does have a 60s feel to it, which once I started playing with it, it came about and rather nicely. The second one I did go overboard but again, your knowledge of styles shows up again, as as I was playing with it, it did take on a sort of turn of the century b/w photo that was colorized and the colors saturated but also bled a little and gave it some funkiness to it. Third one is def a great one. Once again thanks for the thoughts. Here is another one from the beach, again some tweakage in colors, but not as much as one would probably think...

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[Nick Saglimbeni]

Looks great....I actually really like that you let the shot be "underexposed." I put quotes on that because I don't mean it in the traditional film sense, but rather in reference to a growing trend in Photoshop/post-production where the highlights and shadows must always be balanced.

I think it was a bold move to let the shot go dark, as if you actually grabbed the shot just before night. It works extremely well.