Bloody tourists
by Gauti

Comment by willow_zzen:
the title made me giggle! what a beautiful picture of rainbow and waterfall! : )

Bloody tourists
by Gauti

Comment by Jeileen:
Awesome color saturation and composition is good. Nice Job!

Original
by Gauti

Comment by theSaj:
Wow....what is that? a geyser?

Down at the snowy black beach
by Gauti

Comment by Gauti:
Thanks Heather.
In th original the horizon was not 100% level, so I fixed that in C1 before starting to work in PS. I agree, slightly tilted horizon is very annoying, but if it is really tilted, like >15% then it can work.

The things in the BG, on the waterline are big rocks. There is a lighthouse on top of the biggest one (the one with the hole through). I have a few photos of that lighthouse:

and this gallery in my portfolio.

There is, of course, more texture in a full size version of this, esp in the black sand and snow.
When I shot this, I wasn't really paying attention to the clouds, I was trying to get the contrast between the white snow and black sand. It was only later, during post.prod. that I noticed the nice 3D effect in them.

Down at the snowy black beach
by Gauti

Comment by HBunch:
*Critique Club*

This is a nice scene. I think the only thing that's bugging me here is that I can't tell what it is in the background. There are some silhouettes of buildings? or Rocks? or something and they are too tiny to tell exactly what they are, so they are distracting me from the rest of the photo cause I'm trying to figure out what they are.
The sky is beautiful. Love the clouds.
Had you not mentioned that it was snow, I thought it looked like a whole lot of 'sea foam'.
You did a wonderful job leveling out your horizon. Nothing irritates me more than a waterline that is tilting to one side or another and you got it perfect.
Focus and clarity are really good. We get to see some texture and even some patterns in the snow on the beach.
Overall a beautiful view.
~Heather~

The only one I wear
by Gauti

Comment by buzzrock:
DAMN-- this is almost perfect--
the crop is off, lose more of the right side..
and during post the band got Brown, not silver?
This was a great try.. 8 for the effort

The only one I wear
by Gauti

Comment by Jewellian:
Nice DOF and sharpness. the face is a little dark for my tastes though.

The only one I wear
by Gauti

Comment by TrollMan:
Nice and sharp. I like the fact that you have made the background sort of disappear...

The only one I wear
by Gauti

Comment by NathanWert:
Nice watch, maybe close the clasp and lighten the face a little.

The only one I wear
by Gauti

Comment by RedOak:
Would've been fun to have more light on the face of the watch. Lighting itself ain't bad, but ain't special either. Grey background makes the pic quite stale. DOF is good tho. 6