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I like it and I'll keep it up (I'm not expecting too much with this one).
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Matt ! This took my breath away ! I love what you achieved 
The purple sky matches the pink-beige floor so good ! The ground doesn't look like sand at all... what is it ?? 
I liked this photograph, but over the past week, I've been beginning to dislike it (hence the scraps). However, now I like it again 
Anyways, I think I was standing on a huge slate of rock that slowly sloped down into the ocean. I really don't remember though; however, it looks like it 
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It happens to me sometimes (liking, disliking) 
Altough there are some things that could've been improved. The foreground is just lovely and couldn't have been any better.
But then there's the sky. The sky isn't something to go nuts over. It's, unfortunately way too dark and I'm missing some highlight in the sky and clouds.
This could've been avoided by shooting it as HDR(e.g. 3 exposures with 1 EV-STEP in between).
The low angle is great and the details in the sand is amazing. I also love the lines that draw you in to the picture.
I'm also not a fan of making wierd colours in-camera, make them appear in Photoshop afterwards and keep the original as natural as possible.
I hope this was useful after all.
The graduated filters are overdone, though. The line where it moves from unfiltered to filtered is very obvious. Maybe try a soft grad instead? The hard is good for on the horizon, but in a light area with detail it lacks subtlety. The upper third of the image is muddy, with blocked out blacks and the detail in the sky is vastly reduced. The viewer's eye tends to gravitate to the lightest section of an image, which means one gets to looking at the light band across the middle of the frame, just below where the grads take over, and is reluctant to venture farther into the image.
It is tempting sometimes to stack filters on (one reason why I avoid using them other than a polariser and the occasional ND). My approach is to use the least amount of filtration possible. It's less to carry, apart from anything else! I have seen many photographers develop a dependence on filters, at the cost of their own photographic abilities, which is a real pity. Sometimes it is good to go back to a more raw way of doing things, and relying on your eye and the in camera controls to retune your instincts.
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