Looks like there is a lot of sharpening, and some artifacts around boundaries. The fog is detail-less, as it can often be, but the boundary between the fog and the ocean is abrupt. Is there any detail there in the highlights? I like the header beam. I wonder how it would be the image is rotated so that the beam is exactly horizontal. Or not... On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Gary Dalton <grdalton@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Here's a shot at Nepenthe, near Big Sur... > > I've worked through a half-dozen different versions of it and finally > settled on a center crop (16:9)... (Trust me: It's the best one...) > > Questions... (Trying to learn...) > > Do you find the header beam and horizon lines in conflict to the point of > distraction? > > Does it appear to you that the horizon is curved? (It does to me, but I'm > thinking it has more to do with a fog bank than the lens or the angle of > the shot.... Or that I have enough of the horizon to see the Earth's > curvature... Ha!) > > Your notions about any of this... despite the ordinary nature of the > shot... > > > http://filmuser3.smugmug.com/Other/Oddities/i-GsC63WN/0/L/NepentheMobile4-2011-1722-L.jpg > > Thanks... > > > -- Ken Iisaka first name at last name dot org or com