Beached

I'm not sure on this one to honest Cakey, it seems to be a bit bright and dark in odd places. What PP have you run this shot through?

cheers Ken im upset now ............its meant to be a knackered funky look hahahaha
what bit dont you do, knackered or funky hahaha ?

Cakey I like the subject. But have you 'overcooked' the processing a little. There are strange light streaks on both sides of the hull on the stones. Can you put up the original for comparison?

as Im very happy how it is ...........NO hahahaha
as YOP is the only place that dont like it ,its won a local compo already and its got to number 14 in Explore out of the 1000's of pictures I will leave it how it is .
for those that want to know its a Topaz plug in for CS5 .

Fair enough.

Sorry Cakey, but I will never lie to you, but of course it is only in my opinion and you know what they say about opinions

I must admit I wasnt sure about the halo around the boat but the response was good on flick so I left it ,I will probably do another with no halo and see how that looks
I had another look at it and the processing has picked up the streaks that were there
this is straight out of the camera (embedded jpeg)

I don't think it's the processing that is the issue here although an untrained eye will find some interest in the peculiarity of the colours. It's more in the interpretation. Since people on YOP are much more discerning they will look past the fancy footwork of the post processing and look for a significance in the structure of the photo. On first glance it's a boat beached during stormy weather photographed head on and in a classic, stable composition. Nothing new or inovative or even interesting here.On second glance there doesn't seem much more. Most here would probably say ' so!' in response to viewing this photo and move on because they know even a good photo can't be improved by dodgy processing. You are probably better off having left the image as was.
Cheers
Tom

Tom. id seen the image at the time and i liked it. when i got it on the pc i found that playing with the photo was more pleasing to me. if i knew how to take a professional picture i wouldnt be posting them on yop ha ha ha.. i would be selling them. is there any encouragment anyone can give so i can improve next time, or is it all doom and gloom.
love cakey.