"I must go down to the seas again, the lonely sea and the sky" (Original by John Masefield, but I'm persuing a slightly different tack - still a quote, but by a different author) C&C welcome (in fact needed) I'm looking for that wide, lonely, brooding look... I have a vague recollection of a tutorial about "low tide". Tried to implement it from memory. (My memory makes a sieve look watertight). There are a lot of things I know I have to improve, (too many abrupt transitions: "dry" sand too distinct from the "wet" sand; the "seaweed" in the water is not very believable; the foreground needs more detail), but just at the moment I'm trying to concentrate on composition, my weakest point of many. So, as I said, C&C welcome:-)) Cheers, Diolma

Ooops - the illegible red text should read "There will be a point of interest about here" :-((

When I hear "brooding" it makes me think of gray skies and clouds, maybe in the evening. Anyway, so far it is looking real good. The 2 rocks farthest out look placed too perfectly. The 3 rocks could be scattered a bit more. Everything is leading the eye to the right until you get to the darker water which is almost parallel with the bottom edge. Makes it a bit distracting. I keep looking at that rock on the right. It isn't really shaped like a rock. I'm also working on my composition which I have a hard time with, so I'm practicing while looking at your image. :) You have a really good start here. Can't wait to see what the point of interest is. :)

Attached Link: http://www.j.b.allen.btinternet.co.uk/galcode/Lowtidetut1.html

Is this the tutorial you were thinking about? (Jonathan Allen)

Looks very good so far diolma. I look forward to seeing where you go with this.:-)