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Message: <blockquote data-quote="olli" data-source="post: 19281" data-attributes="member: 388">Of all of these alternatives I feel the first one is the best. To me the single figure on the driftwood suggests isolation, even lonliness. The first uncropped image intensifies this sense by including much more sky and shore.The close crop in the B&W version doesn't work for me. Partly because it diminishes this sense of isolation and partly because it loses too many of the structural elements on the left of the image that draw the viewer into the central figure. The driftwood coming in from the left of the frame and that little stick in the bottom left corner create a strong triangle with the woman at the apex.I like the strength of the sky and the sea here. The blown section of the sea doesn't take away from the image for me. I can also see Nic's point about the texture in the sand. Depending on what software you use you could selectively enhance the mid tone contrast in this section to bring that out.Regarding the colour balance it does need some work - trial and error usually works best for me. On a general point, unless you are printing it's not worth spending too much time worrying about this. It just needs to be good enough. This is because you have no control over how your image will look on other people's computers unless they are using a colour managed browser and a colour balanced monitor.Here's a version that aims to accentuate the foreground shore while slightly reducing the background sky. While the foreground texture is interesting I think it is too strong and distracts from the woman who is the key element of the image.<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/olliinmunich/5637926033/">[ATTACH=full]35216[/ATTACH]</a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/olliinmunich/5637926033/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/olliinmunich/5637926033/</a></blockquote>

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