Swami's rock ledges 2

Works for me! Beautiful shot Daniel, it was a beautiful sunset for sure the foreground is very interesting backed by a fantastic sky.

Curious why they are called Swami's ledges though.
-Daman

Daman,
This is a very famous beach - called Swami's because at the top of the cliff is 'Swami's Self-Realization Center'. You have to realize that North County San Diego is one of the last hippy hold-outs, we truly value the eccentric...

Love the echoing of ledge and moon. The mix of rippled color on the ledge is wonderful too. I might try to remove the red chromatic aberrations? on the moon though.

Cool shot, Daniel. I like the inclusion of the moon. I used to shoot down there quite a bit, but never managed to get the moon involved.

Beautiful shot Daniel. Love the water patterns at the edge of the lip, and great color.

Just for comparative purposes, I am including the same shot with the original moon, before I upsized it. Normally I am really against tinkering with moons, but in this case I feel it was justified - the damn thing is so small! Compressing to <200kb hasn't helped it much either... As Paul mentions, there is some red fringing on the upsized moon, I can't win! And somehow I feel like bringing in another moon from a different photo is just totally cheating...

I know the moon looks small in the your repost but overall IMO it has more feel to it. The sky is more immense, more powerful with the smaller moon, and the landscape becomes more front and center. I can't explain it, but its just a better fit. Nice work.

Sweet. I like this one a lot! the original moon is far better. no need to enlarge it - everyone knows how it looks anyway. very ethereal image.
georg

Thanks for the comments, esp. about the moon. Over the years I have written several scathing anti-moon-enlargement comments, and here I am committing the same offense! I have learned my lesson...

Great sky and nice horshoe-shaped pool Daniel!

Wonderful Daniel, simply and yet so beautiful and moving! I'd stick to the original moon (it was there.. and personally, I wouldn't want people to think that it was added because it looks larger than they are used to seeing in photographs).

If you could get over losing the beautiful colors, I think this has some excellent black and white potential as well - if it were mine I'd be tempted to have both in my portfolio. It would probably take a little bit of work with contrast adjustments/burn & dodging to bring out the full B&W potential, but it might be fun

Daniel,
Really interesting feature, and your angle catching it with that nice sky reflected on the rim really shows it off well. As far as the moon goes, I have kind of a different philosophy. it's hard to make it look natural when when you use a super-wide lens. Maybe we are just used to large moons shot with longer lenses, but in a super-wide shot, I agree that the small moon looks unnatural. I suppose that's because the perspective our eyes see is so different from the distorted super-wide view. There is a fine line between upsizing the moon to look natural, and overdoing it, because it's easy to see this is not a telephoto perspective. IMHO, somewhere between what you recorded and what you created in postprocessing might look better. I guess showing a few versions to people and asking which one is original, and which were manipulated would be one way to find out.

A very beautiful image Daniel, the soft motion of the foreground water flowing over the ledge has such a sculptural feel to it, that together with the beautiful design and colors really makes this superb. Much prefer the 'natural' rendition of the moon as in your second post. The larger moon actually detracts from the wonderful mood and design of the image in my opinion. Dean's statement says it well. Outstanding work.

Very cool!!!!

Simple and effective.

Mark

I prefer the original moon Daniel (second image).

This is a very surreal image, and is also one of my favorite times of the day, so I may be biased. ;]

Fabulous sky and effective comp Daniel.

Gorgeous shot! The colors and exposure are fantastic, but the interesting foreground puts it over the top!

lol Daniel! Hippies still around eh :P I do envy all of you on the west coast though, fantastic landscapes to shoot whereas the eastern coast is pretty drab for the most part. Looking forward to more such!
-Daman

Wonderful shot. Colors and composition are superb. This photo caught my eye right away from all the ones visible in the gallery. The effect on the moon enlargment adds to the whole idea. Absolutelly great work.