Stormy Sunset at Seal Rock

ZBlack

Critiques, comments, anything is welcome. This is a 3 bracket exposure blended in photomatix then stylized with Perfect Effects, Nik Color Efex and Lightroom.

Originally I wasn't very impressed with this image and discarded it. But after revisiting some older photo's, I found some looks I am pretty happy with. This isn't intended to look 100% realistic. My goal was to give it a dramatic and fantasy feel to it. This was taken back in May, but the weather in this photo is very close to the weather we've had here on the Oregon Coast the past couple weeks. Lots of rain, hail, snow, wind, yet beautiful breaking of the clouds for sunsets.

With such contrast between highlights and shadows, and even with the colors, I thought it looked pretty cool the way it turned out. Of course that's very subjective hence me asking for comments and such on it, to see what other people think. It does look better on my calibrated monitor of course, really has more contrast and better color than my standard one.

kdog

I like it. Really great looking scene. A couple of nits: The horizon has a dip in it, and the horizon line looks blurry towards the left for some reason.

superduckz

I like it a lot. It's actually almost refreshing to see a scene line this without the long exposure/10 stop Neutral Density filter. Admittedly the ND exposures are nice but seem to be everywhere lately. I agree that there seems to be a minor focus issue on the left. Not a huge deal though.

joe-bob

Very nice shot.

Dr Calohandre

Nice