Awesome shot I got today
 

I was at OCMD today and saw a surfer and grabbed my D40x with 55-200 lens at f/12. This photo was not edited at all except for my name and border it came out really good I think.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62...fer_mwiley.jpg

pretty awesome....except it's not level :-p


Haha i do the same thing everytime i grab laura's camera at the beach and try to take pics....
the horizon kills my attempts at taking level photos

you can straighten the horizon in photoshop... i have to do it in a TON of my pictures because for some reason i just hold the camera at a slight angle... i think it might be the weight.

awesome colors... and hell, i didn't even notice the horizon was not straight until i read carbonis' comment :)

It looks pretty damn level to me.
Nice job.

Yeah it came out pretty good its a little uneven but I was in the water when I took it so I was trying not to get the camera wet lol

very cool shot matt!

Oh no, it really is memorial day weekend at the jersey shore, isn't it? Hooray.

Yeah, it's pretty close so most won't notice. Counter clockwise rotation by 0.2 degree would fix it.

I'd warm the white balance slightly to correct the blueish tint on the surfer.

Yeah its only the unedited photo I have yet to take it into Lightroom yet looks alot better since you helped clean my camera (thanks again)

i like it man, looks pretty damn good for a raw shot. I just played with a d40 this weekend. i got some shots of BMXers in Lansdale/hatfield area. love the camera.

Very nice shot. Jersey Shore traffic FTL.

OCMD is gorgeous.....i love it there.

Not bad. My only gripe is the centered composition. I think it would have been a lot more powerful had you gotten lower and framed him in the bottom left with more open area to the top and right.


EDIT:

I chopped up your shot a bit, moved some stuff around, and made a few tweaks like minor curves and color balance. This is more of what I was talking about. Keep in mind it was a 5-minute chop job, so I didn't clean it up or anything.

http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/3953/39378445ku9.jpg