_DSC5745.ARW.xmp (8.0 KB)
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please describe how you did it or provide a sidecar file
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sure. my sidecar has no authorised extension (can’t upload), so here it’s pasted:
frames:1
module:i-raw:01
module:denoise:01
module:hilite:01
module:demosaic:01
module:exposure:01
module:filmcurv:01
module:llap:01
module:hist:01
module:zones:01
module:saturate:01
module:crop:01
module:display:hist
module:display:main
connect:i-raw:01:output:denoise:01:input
connect:denoise:01:output:hilite:01:input
connect:hilite:01:output:demosaic:01:input
connect:demosaic:01:output:exposure:01:input
connect:saturate:01:output:filmcurv:01:input
connect:zones:01:output:llap:01:input
connect:llap:01:output:hist:01:input
connect:filmcurv:01:output:zones:01:input
connect:crop:01:output:saturate:01:input
connect:exposure:01:output:crop:01:input
connect:hist:01:output:display:hist:input
connect:llap:01:output:display:main:input
param:i-raw:01:filename:/home/XXX/Pictures//_DSC5745.ARW
param:hilite:01:white:0.985
param:hilite:01:desat:0.8
param:hilite:01:soft:1
param:exposure:01:exposure:-1.62887
param:filmcurv:01:x0:0
param:filmcurv:01:x1:0.1
param:filmcurv:01:x2:0.9
param:filmcurv:01:x3:1
param:filmcurv:01:y0:0
param:filmcurv:01:y1:0.38351
param:filmcurv:01:y2:1
param:filmcurv:01:y3:1
param:filmcurv:01:black:-3.10515
param:llap:01:sigma:0.2
param:llap:01:shadows:0
param:llap:01:hilights:1
param:llap:01:clarity:2.45567
param:hist:01:crop:0:1:0:1
param:hist:01:mode:0
param:zones:01:radius:5.49072
param:zones:01:epsilon:0.18844
param:zones:01:zone0:0
param:zones:01:zone1:0
param:zones:01:zone2:0
param:zones:01:zone3:-0.01237
param:zones:01:zone4:-0.07835
param:zones:01:zone5:-0.12784
param:zones:01:zone6:-0.11959
param:saturate:01:sat:0
param:crop:01:perspect:0:0:1:0:1:1:0:1
param:crop:01:crop:0:0.99883:0.142572:0.999502
param:crop:01:rotate:0
my workflow was to click on the brand new “export selected” button:
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And here mine! 
_DSC5745-1.png.out.pp3 (11.5 KB)
RT5.8
To me, this version has a much better mood than my previous version.
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Much smaller 
I thought that the water in the foreground was pulling the attention away from the sky and the back-lit lighthouse. Hence the crop. RT 5.8.
_DSC5745.jpg.out.pp3 (12.3 KB)
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I think the most interesting thing about this example is the fact that we feel differently about the composition. Apparently a few people have a problem with the empty area in the sky.
Maybe it’s because it’s just a flat area that doesn’t add much to the composition?
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correct. I like your croppings, btw. But probably you see that some have just cropped away that area, creating bad proportions between sky and sea. The sky almost always needs to be significantly larger than the water or the ground. So if you crop away the empty clouds, you also need to remove a part of the sea at the bottom. Anyway that’s how I feel it. And that’s what you did. But my experience is that composition is subjective and I often change my mind about my own compositons.
But in this case I personally am not so annoyed about the emptiness of the clouds. It’s more or less how it looks in reality. Of course it would be better if that part of the picture had more structure but that’s how it is.
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