maui Inside a Sea Cave

Comments and feedback welcomed.

A beautiful B/W composition. Best regards, Torfinn.

Wonderful photo, great tones and composition... except one thing - the halo around the rocks. Did you use Greg Gorman's method of desaturation?

Beautiful photo , The blue tone create a powerful atmosphere

Thank you all for your comments. Darius, I converted this to Lab Color, and used the lightness channel, changed to gray scale, changed back to RGB, increase contrast with curves, and colorized with Hue/Saturation and desaturated.

Very mice photo little dramatí±µe

An absolutely amazing shot, Will! I love the sense of action, composition, and pleasant tones and contrast. This is a real winner--strong work!

Perfect composition! Very good work!

The haloing around the edges is kind of out of control and there are sensor patterns (matrix filter) that are showing in the shadows. it looks like you tried to pull out detail in the shadows that didnt exist in the first place. The image ends up looking oddly inverted. The composition and timing of the waves coming in during the exposure are perfect. The processing just needs some work.

 

Paul

Very interesting format. I like this shot a lot, yet one never sees this type of scene in black and white. Sweet.

fergi

Thanks all for your comments and critiques.

 

Paul, very good observations. I would agree with all your comments. As you could imagine, this was a very difficult situation to properly expose. The unique black rocks were extremely difficult to squeeze for any detail, thus the grid lines appear after post processing. I didn't think they would show at this size. Again, good catch and thanks for your honest feedback.

I love these photos were everything appears so smooth. I can never get that! Great work.

Apart from the halo most prominent around the left rock, I like this a lot. This is a very dynamic seascape & I like the composition with the wave action framed between the 2 main rock faces.

This is beautiful shot! I love the monochrome treatment. The composition is superb. Very well done!

Great composition and perspective Will. However, it looks as though some of the darker areas have been dodged too much, resulting in wash-outs (center, distant rock) and noise issues (dark rock on left and right edges). I'd go back this one and correct those minor processing issues before printing. This image deserves it.

Thanks Marc. Yeah, I was trying anything and everything to bring some detail out and not have it completely black. I guess it would have benefited this shot if it were black instead of changing the integrity of the photo. Thanks so much for commenting. You probably already know that you're, hands down, my favorite photographer.

perfect, no words, thanks

Very nice photo.

Very beautiful shot. Well done!

Beautifull composition and light

Beautiful shot...

Thank you all again for the comments and critiques.

Very nice composition and tones. Well done.

Yeah, the glow was from me trying salvage some detail in the rocks. I absolutely love Hawaii. Did you make it to the Road to Hana and Haleakala Crater?

Very pictural. Love it!