Six Minutes Later

Wow Ed, those are some epic conditions.   What a killer sky!!!  I think the way you presented this is excellent.  I would, as an alternative, tone down the foreground brightness and add a bit more prominence to the sky.  It's hard to make that case even to myself, because I love this as is.

Ed,

Beautiful!  The warm light is so striking.  The light on the rocky shore is clearly the anchor and the story, but you've got such a wonderful sky to balance this image.

I'm trying hard to see how you could squeeze a nice pano - or a narrower presentation out this.  I think the horizon, treeline and long skyline are begging for a pano.  But, I can't see a good crop.  So that means, you've crafted a pretty solid composition.

No significant suggestions, but one small nit/suggestion would be to clone out that one dark spec - looks like a buoy or something in the water.  Otherwise, lovin' this one.

Lon

Gorgeous Light Ed.

Beautiful warm light and great sky. Sweet. I also like Gary's alternative presentation idea. 

Ed, this is lovely and dramatic. I am unsure if the rocks are too bright, but you could try to tone them down just a bit, or adjust red and yellow saturation downward just a wee bit. I also see a little cyan in the blue peeking through the clouds, but that is minor.

If you wan to reduce the luminosity of the reds and yellows, here is a cool trick, assuming you use Photo Shop...

1. Create a Black White adjustment layer (the image will display in grey-scale)
2. Set the Blending Mode of that layer to Luminosity (the image will revert back to RGB)
3. Adjust the red and yellow sliders to suit.

The cool thing with this trick is that it does not affect saturation, or the tonal separation. I have found this procedure to be very handy.
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Thanks for your thoughts everyone; always appreciated. I am on the laptop now as I have a black screen on my desktop monitor. I will try out your suggestions after I try to work out that problem.

Ed

I love how this photograph provides incredible close up detail while at the same time offering such a glorious  view of the surroundings. The latter really puts things in perspective. The dramatic light and the weather adds that extra zip.

Very, very nice!

The larger image is a "must see". The rising sun hitting the granite cliffs is an awesome FG with the dramatic sky topping it off. And I also forget to clone that buoy out of my otter cliffs images. My only suggestion would be to dodge in the stairstep shadow in the FG.

Ed: what all the other folks said plus "Wow". Richard

Wow, the light hitting the shoreline is magnificent!  The glow in the rocks is off the charts and contrasts nicely with the more muted tones in the water and sky. 

Ed, I really love this! I love Acadia and have spent a few great mornings along that very stretch of coast, so this is bringing me right back there. The light is fantastic, but the really great thing about this, for me, is the composition. Everything is so well balanced, with the rocks, sea and sky all having equal weight. The three parts work well together, with the simplicity of the sea, soft, subtle patterns in the sky, and then the more chaotic arrangement of he rocks. Really great stuff!

I was able to visit this area once; what a treat. The light in this is superb Ed. The way the shoreline is beginning to shine in those first rays works perfectly, and this comp is nicely balanced.

Really shows what a nice sunrise can do to the pink Cadillac granite.  The subtle reds of the sky compliment it well.  You hit it right, not much I would change.