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Eddie Bell
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English Channel at Cayeux-sur-mer |
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| Paula Davies | I
think you have the making of a good image here. My suggestion is
that you duplicate the layer and run the Motion Blur filter at 0
degrees angle and adjust the amount which will depend on your image
size. Add a new layer and fill it with white. Change the
Blend Mode of this layer to Soft Light and reduce the opacity to
50%. Make a layer mask and select the sea, invert the selection
so that the shore and sky are selected. Fill the beach selection
on the layer mask with black and the sky selection with a
gradient. You can now duplicate this layer and its mask but
change the opacity to 25%. That is stage one leaving the image
format as you have it. I then used the crop tool and cropped out
the shore and some of the sky. If you want to see what I have
done let me know and I'll send you a jpeg. |
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| John Davies | Come
on Eddie! Stick to what you are best at. You will never be Irene Froy
(thank goodness!). I am sure Paula will tell you how to create an
ethereal minimalistic picture from this but for me it requires
something of interest to tell me what it is all about. You try to
create some interest by saying it is from somewhere on the continent
but it could have been taken anywhere, northern France, the Galapagos
Islands, Redcar. The only positive I can find is that the horizon is
nearly on a third! |
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| Cath Wright | I’m
a fan of open seascapes and I enjoyed looking at the lovely vivid
colour of the sea on the horizon. Personally, I would crop about half
of the sky, to just above the wispy clouds on the right hand side,
which would focus the eyes more onto the horizon (using more of a
letterbox format for the picture). It’s a lovely relaxing scene. |
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| Simon Allen | I
quite like the layered effect of the bands of colour in this image -
but overall I think I don't really find enough of interest to hold my
attention - sorry! Perhaps it would benefit from some sort of treatment
(blurring?) to make it more truly abstract in nature? |
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