A walk on the beach

[Elfin Yeti]

Sunday afternoon in Leucadia, CA.





I couldn't decide if I liked this surfboard one better or the one below:

[Mira]

1. Oh that little girl! Wonderful in placement and color. Utterly incongruous to the

colors of "geology" and so alive.
The first one:
I think if the green were gone, and about an inch on the left, it could be a simple and perfect painting of the kind where the earth did all the work.
Both surfboard photos surely take me out of the comfort zone of my back yard into what looks like could be yours.
I love how we allow each other to take little trips by sharing photographs of what is near and dear.

I like the surfboard photos so much I would do a third crop. I would turn the first one into a square if possible. Some off the bottom, and on the top cut it above the where the stone mimics the shape of the tops of the boards because that repetition is priceless. Add in some on the left and right if you have it.

Then, photo shop queen, go into photoshop, and get rid of the greenery.

:)

[Elfin Yeti]

3. Once again, great minds...

...I edited these yesterday. Is this what you had in mind?



Or this?

[Mira]

5. The second one is precicely what I had in mind, and it looks the way I thought it

would. To me it looks purposeful, story telling, and graphically balanced.
An image for a CD or a surf board shop. Thank you for taking me seriously enough to do it. Hope you like it, too.

[Elfin Yeti]

6. and this too?

I think this is what you meant...



We live about six miles inland from the beach -- we don't go there enough but when we do it is like a mini vacation! We drive along the coast and I work right on the coast (the horse show) but don't often make the time to actually play there! What a treat!

[Mira]

9. And again it turns into what I envisioned. At this point it looks like the

perfect canvas for cave paintings at Lascaux. I adore it.

[NV Whino]

2. I like the first surfboard pic

The iceplant makes you eye move around the picture. The surfboards alone don't make you eye move. The girl with that bright color juxtaposed against the earth tones of the cliff is wondrous!

[Elfin Yeti]

4. The one thing that bugged me...

...is I can't tone down the girl's top -- I don't like the brightness of it (too electric). Not talented enough to know how to spot correct.

[postatomic]

7. I don't know what you use for photo editing

You can also just 'dodge' the girls top to lighten it a bit. Play around. Find something that will work for you. You can alter the color by using an additional layer. You can also replace the color.

The software I use is fairly esoteric and poorly documented but it works the way I think in terms of "photo development". Photoshop thinks like photoshop.

[NV Whino]

8. Actually I like it

But magenta is tricky in digital format—very hard to get a "natural" look

Since it is so distinctive, it would be easy enough to isolate. If you isolate it, try adding a little green to it in "variations" if you are using Photoshop. I'm sure the Xperts here could do something in "curves," but that has always baffled me.