yssirk123 Loc: New Jersey

There are many nice beaches along the NJ coast, and Long Branch is one of my favorites. This SOOC picture was taken on a beautiful morning but could use some TLC to bring out its potential.

The attached image is SOOC and was taken hand-held with an attempt to preserve highlights in the sky. Trust me - there’s a nice image hiding in this file that could really benefit from your editing expertise.

Feel free to download this image to your computer. Then you can edit it any way that you think is an improvement. Composites, black and white conversions, textures, sky swaps, inverted images, solarization, or whatever else you think will improve the photo are acceptable techniques for your edit. When you are finished, post your edit in this thread. Edits will be accepted until 9pm Eastern time on Thursday. No edits will be accepted after that time because we will begin voting then.

Thank you for your efforts and your participation.

Hope you have fun with this one.

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SonyA580 Loc: FL in the winter & MN in the summer

In PS - reversed image - stretched canvas to relocate pier and horizon - added a few clouds to sky - eliminated stuff on horizon - slight dodging and burning.

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photophile Loc: Lakewood, Ohio, USA

I cropped it in foreground and on left side and top. Also used image treatment clarity , brighten and saturation.

Jim-Pops Loc: Granbury, Texas

I like the soft feathery look as the waves crest. I could say this is a long exposure but maybe a "Not So Fast Exposure" would be a better description.

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R.G. Loc: Scotland

My view.
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NJFrank Loc: New Jersey

My take.

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John N Loc: HP14 3QF Stokenchurch, UK

Here's mine.

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NikonGal Loc: Central Oregon

Thanks, always enjoy a beach scene. Nice image to work on.

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