Fiji Colour

[Alpha_7]

I am pretty sure I haven't shared any of these shots on the forum, but I was bored and looking through my shots and found these three. They look great on my LCD so I hope they look semi decent on a calibrated monitor. Each of these shots is special to me because I can recall how calm and peaceful I was when I took them, not sure if any of that carrys across in the photos or not.

Sunrise


Sunset


Sunset on a different day.

[daniel_r]

Craig, on my calibrated monitor they sure do look good.

Out of a tough bunch to pick from, #2 is a winner.

It's got a lot of stuff working together to make it the standout - a silhouetted shoreline to provide form without distraction, liquid-metal like water which then draws you to what looks like a mountain range in the background - all of these draw you in to the centre of the image.

The cloud formation at the top also forms a "V" drawing you into the image from the top as well.

Your final exposure as present here in spot on with highlights and shadows appropriately controlled. The composition is equally as good.

Edit: Just noticed something - I think your JPEGs posted here are in the AdobeRGB colour space... and they look awesome in a colour space aware browser (safari) or opening them in Photoshop. I usually convert the colour space to sRGB before web export - see here

[Geoff]

Craig I'm with Dan on this, #2 is the winner here. If I was being ultra picky I'd like to see a little more detail (light wise) globally in this image, but after all it is sunset

[wendellt]

even though the 1st one is more complex and appealing in that way i liek the simplicity of 2

go craig master of mood

[greencardigan]

Nice work Craig. The clouds in #1 are spectacular.

[Sir Tristram]

My vote = #2

Great photo.

[PiroStitch]

I'm going to be a pain and say #3. I quite like it, but maybe crop to a square pic as the clouds are drawing me to the right side more due to their formation.

I like #2 as well for the simplicity and the fact that the sun looks like a nuclear explosion...I think that trumps the thermonuclear explosions from the SB800

Btw, have shown my fiancé your Fiji pics and we're both looking forward to going there next year

[Steffen]

Craig,
very nice, just what you expect from a Fiji trip

Edit: Just noticed something - I think your JPEGs posted here are in the AdobeRGB colour space... and they look awesome in a colour space aware browser (safari) or opening them in Photoshop. I usually convert the colour space to sRGB before web export

One of my standard gripes. People, you really rob your images of impact by not considering that most people don't use CM aware web browsers. The majority of web browers quietly ignore the profile tags in your images. Most don't do any CM and just throw the RGB bits at a monitor that is (hopefully) somewhere near sRGB in response...

Compare for yourself, on the left is what a common web browser displays, on right is what a CM aware application makes of it (I know I've done this before, and after this I rest my case and promise to never bring it up again):



With some images the difference is more dramatic than with others, but this is something to keep in mind

Cheers
Steffen.

[Alpha_7]

Your right Daniel and Steffan, I was being slack, the first time I uploaded these was for a mate to download (and not for displaying on the web) so I kept them in adobe rgb, when it came to posting today I just linked to the same version and didn't upload new ones in the srgb colour space and steffan is right I all to commonly post in the wrong colour space and don't do much shots just, I'll try to behave myself in future The side by side comparison is a great example to btw.

[johnd]

Wow, it does make a difference. Good tip Steffen.
Nice pics too Craig, #2 is my favourite.
Cheers
John