cliffs at dawn - Sydney, NSW

[Lells]

Hey guys,

Well, in another post in the midst of this great community Hummungus challenged me to submit some photos of black swans, seeing as I am from Western Australia - I happen to think the creatures are a little ugly, so instead I'll post some snaps from when I happened to find some plans fall through and I was thus awake at dawn on my holidays in Terrigal, NSW and armed with a camera. I will also confess, I can be a bit bad at getting my horizon straight!

[DJ-S1]

I like the comp of this, it really makes the cliff seem massive. The horizon can be straightened easily enough, and I tweak of contrast would help a bit. I personally would clone out the fence at the top, if you aren't against that sort of thing.

Nice work overall, thanks for posting it. :thumb

[Lells]

I like the comp of this, it really makes the cliff seem massive. The horizon can be straightened easily enough, and I tweak of contrast would help a bit. I personally would clone out the fence at the top, if you aren't against that sort of thing.

Nice work overall, thanks for posting it. :thumb

Amazing how eyes pick up on different things, I didn't even notice the fence! We can blame the horizon error on the grounds I am never up that early but some help with Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 to work out how to straighten it would be greatly appreciated.

[DJ-S1]

Not so familiar with Elements 2 but there's generally something like image -> rotate. Sometimes called tranform? It's probably only a degree or so, nothing major. After you rotate it, you'll have to crop it slightly.