Diamond Head, Holona Blow Hole, Makapuʻu Beach

[Javelin]

whenever I shot adobe RGB on the camera the colours look very flat in the editors so I always leave the camera on sRGB

[bakubo]

Fira, Santorini in Greece:

[rogprov]

Gloucester old docks (now in process of rejuvenation and improvement?)

[Bodak]

Hastings Victoria.

[Bodak]

Last for the day.
"cape Liptrap" Vic. Aust.

[KevinBarrett]

These pictures are lovely, Stephen! The first looks a touch high on the right side, but all of the colors and compositions are wonderful.

[Bodak]

Thanks Kevin.

The first was tad difficult to align with all those masts and mooring posts.

[bakubo]

Lots more great shots have been posted!

This is Cat Ba Harbor (Cat Ba is an island adjacent to Halong Bay), Vietnam:

[david antony]

On the Fraser River.

[Bodak]

"Mornington Habour"

[bakubo]

Cool, Bodak!

Here's another one from Fira, Santorini in Greece:

[KevinBarrett]

Wonderful shot, Stephen! It's got a wonderful composition, wonderful glowing colors, and that little bit of action in the foreground is well captured, adding to the technical complexity of it all.

[Bodak]

Don, I always touch my images, sometimes heavily.
Look at the lighthouse, those beams of light aren't in the original.
You can see the original out of camera shot at http://www.photoclubalpha.com/forum/vie ... =17&t=2026" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I guess you already have seen it.

[David Kilpatrick]

There are valid opinions on both sides. I come from a background where even cropping an image was verboten - you had to print the negative including the borders to be taken seriously (British photojournalism for the 'heavies' - Observer, Guardian, Times, Sunday Times - 1970s). Therefore I hardly ever crop or pp images. But - we used to print on G4 and dodge and burn in a big way to achieve b/w impact. I'm now thinking that the neutrality of my images may have cost me many sales over the last few years. So I'm using steeper tone curves and more adjustment in 2009 than in 2007.

David

[Javelin]

I think when people recall scenes they recall them with more vivid details than were actually there. just regular people alway point out the brightest most vibrant picture out of a selection of them if they are recalling a vaction or something and claim it looked just like that. Maybe when people recall sadder times theres less colour in their minds ..