Mediterranean sunrise

It's a bit tacky and cheesy... isn't it? But it was like thatonce the light woke us up in the sailboat we were sailing around theAeolian islands.

Comments and criticism (and ratings, just for a test) are much welcome.

P.S. The sky kept on being fascinating, later thatday...

Great lines in the sky. Gives teh picture more depth.

Wonderful ! Opposite blues and reds, and in the end the contrast of the see, sky and rocks ... a poem.

Super,,,, encuadre, color y bellisima composicion,, un cordial saludo Salvatore,

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Oh my goodness, please slap me. You have got your eyes open. Trust me, this is good..

Salvatore, I love the unconventional composition!! My eye is playing a tug of war (in a good way) between the beautiful soft clouds and the strong vivid orange created by the rising sun. You know I like a play between warm and cool colors and when they're complimentary colors, all the better. I see nothing "tacky and cheesy" here.

 

The only thing I'd change is the horizon that's sloping counter-clockwise ever so slightly.

I don't see 'tacky and cheesy'. I see a magic light show. I'd leave it as it is, other than the slight tilt.

Truly magical light! beautiful cloud formation.

Fantastic cloud formation and nicely contrasting rock formation - as has been said there is a lot going on in this seemingly simple picture: the small clouds lead the eye OUT of the picture but the rock is so prominent one has to come back down, following the larger clouds wandering off again and so on.

I wonder how a border in grey (or white) would work, but I'm not sure, maybe black is best. Very well done, congratulations !

what a great way to start the day! quite the sky indeed. i'd also agree with the others regarding this not being 'tacky and cheesy' - possibly not as unique as many of your shots, but certainly not tacky. anyway, is it just me or is there a faint pale strip along the the right hand edge and similar indications of some horizontal lines in the top right?? scanning issues?

I am impressed by the warm reception of this image... I shot it several months ago and never thought it was deserving visibility: no one had actually seen it yet! I am glad you all liked it.

A few technical points.

• Laurie, Jeff: the horizon is distorted rather than tilted. That's 20mm on 35mm film. I can turn the shot more clockwise, but then the horizon between the orange tip (Panarea) and the horison island (Lipari) will get tilted badly, and this will be maybe worse. This is the great problem of shooting at sea with the 20mm on film, which I also had in this other shot. Any suggestions to cure this in PS Elements 2.0?
• Andrew, the strips are indeed there. The negative was horrbly bent by the processer: one of the reasons I went digital. I will try to lay it below a couple of dictionaries and give it another scan.

Again, my thanks to all of you: I should have shot more of that sky...

Beautiful light; as if the rocks are red with fire, the clouds resultant smoke.

Horizontal & vertical interest, warm and cool/ soft hard/ liquid contrast.

I suppose you were shooting from too low to include more water in the fg?

Stirs my wanderlust.

Seven, thanks for your comment. I am glad this image stirred your wanderlust indeed!

 

 

As for including more water, I was shooting 1.5m above the waterline, from the deck of our sailboat... I could have aimed the camera more down to get more water, but this would have lost too much of the sky. So I did not go for that. The alternative was to shot this vertical, but I did not like the framing, since the strong sloping diagonal of the endline of the cloud was a crucial element for me, and I would have ended up getting too little of it.

After running through Paintshop Pro's clarify feature at full strength = 5.

David, thanks. I will have to make time to play more with this image. I guess is among the best I brought back from that trip.

The nature makes wonders.. beautiful, cheers Jana

Jana, thanks. Sometimes (often?) it is just matter of being in the right place at the right time...

One of the things I really like about your compositions is that I get to "go along" and see such beautiful places without leaving the comfort of my chair. Your images are so well composed and exposed. But......sometimes the black frames feel too heavy, I like a simple black frame and use one often but this one feels like it's over powering the beauty of the image.

I love the warm reds against the cool of the sky and the flow of the clouds. Nice capture Salvatore.

Susan, thanks. I guess one of the reasons for which I started taking pictures altogether was indeed to crystallise the scenery I happen to see while travelling.

Great picture! I like the opposite diagonals made bye the two different clouds formations. And the colors... Great great great picture!!!

What an amazing sky, and the light on the land is perfect.

Dominick, Chris, thanks. I might be going sailing again in this region this spring and hope to bring back more of this!

Another fine image. The horizon at the very bottom works well.