Wakko12 Loc: New Hampshire

I'm fighting with the beach right now. I'm working on getting exposure and colors to come out of the camera relatively well. I would like your thoughts on them for this picture. Yes, I know there are other issues - camera shake to begin with.

This was shot ISO 100, 105mm, F/11, 1/80s with a D610 and 80-200 F2.8D

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AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

The colors look pretty real to me. Is that what you wanted? The density looks good. The houses and beach do look a bit bright. You might try to recover some detail there. I like how the clouds seem to mimic the waves. My only comment is that the beach/houses are across the center. I don't object to that, but some will.

R.G. Loc: Scotland

Your beach looks like it's mostly bright pebbles, so it'll come out brighter than sand would. If you tried to expose for those bright pebbles, the rest of the shot would come out too dark. Overall the exposure looks fine.

As far as the colouring is concerned, there seems to be generous amounts of magenta in the sky and sea, but that may just have been how it was at the time of the exposure. Again I'd say overall the colouring is fine. The beach doesn't look like it's the typical yellow/orange that sand so often is.

I'd say the departures from the norm are down to reality rather than the camera.

Wakko12 Loc: New Hampshire

Thank you both. I was confused by the blue. Maybe it's just because I was going through them at night, but the blue seemed ridiculous. I even brought the blues down a bit to where it is now. The sand is mighty white here in NH, so that would explain the sand looking weird (I thought the same thing when I moved here).

I'm not super knowledgable at post processing. What would I do to balance the water/sky with houses/sand? You don't have to give me a how-to, but the tool/slider used in Lightroom would be enough for me to figure it out.

R.G. Loc: Scotland

For the picture as a whole, lift the shadows a bit and lower the highlights/whites a bit, then add some contrast to compensate. If the sky isn't to your liking after that you could select it and lift the shadows and maybe desaturate or de-contrast a little.

Alternatively if you have an HSL tool you could lighten and desaturate blue a little. And you can use yellow (and to a lesser extent orange) to darken the sand/rocks. You could also try tint-shifting yellow towards orange a bit and orange towards yellow a little. If the slight purple cast is bothering you you could tint-shift purple (not magenta) all the way to the blue end (it's only the sky and water that are noticeably purple), and perhaps shift the Tint slider slightly towards green.

10MPlayer Loc: California

I agree the colors look natural. Maybe just a bit muted but I'm not sure bumping up saturation or clarity would add anything. It might just make it look overprocessed. I'm wondering about the ufo above the house just left of center.

boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander

Color looks pretty good to me. Just a coupla opinions. Crop out about 1/2 the water in foreground (or is it forewater) and the shutter speed is to slow for the focal length.