I have this couple that braved the elements to do a little surfing in late October in Virginia. In these pictures it's about 65 degrees and the wind is blowing...yikes!

LOVE the lens flare in the first one!

I don't know why I was thinking nudist colony on number 2

LOVELY!!! I love the flare in the 1st shot, love the PP in the 2nd shot and you gotta LOVE a man in uniform. Great job!

so...where are the water shots?

lens flare unreal, show me the surfing shots.

That one with the Wisconsin needs to go in their museum! Beautiful work.

Scott, overall I like 'em.

#1 - Beautiful sky, but the flare doesn't look real. Them's some big boards.

#2 - Yeah, I see naked surfers....

#3 - He looks a little mad, but I guess it works since they are surfers.

#4 - This is a great shot.

+1 to #1 & #3 and LOVE #4!

Thanks for your comments everybody. The intent on #2 was for them to look naked per their request. Thought it was kinda cool myself.... There was some flare in #1 already but I added a bit - can't get much by your keen eyes! Sorry there were no waves that day so no REAL surfing. Just a few shots of them on their boards in the water - they liked 'em!

Cheers!

really like the images a lot, but I'd say the photoshop work on the images could probably be stepped back a bit.

that's awesome they were down to go out and freeze for you, sounds like they'll be a fun couple to work with!

Not a much PS in these really. Just the flare in #1 and texture in #2 with a few curves adjustments. My images are saturated a bit OOC already. I find my clients are drawn to me because my images are given the once or twice over in PS. I think they would be disappointed if I presented them with straight up pics. It's all a part of the creative pie to me...

Fair enough, that's totally awesome if that's the look you usually do.

My comment may have been a bit unjustified, I always have the Photoshop alarm go off when I see photoshop flare in a picture, I felt like I was seeing skin softening on the guy in shot three and blurring of the background in the last shot of them in front of the ship, but I could just be overthinking it because of the flare...

Great images though and I'm sure they'll be amped on them.

I'm a total fan of photoshop and making images look their very best, but at the same time working to try and make it look like they never saw photoshop.

Shoot...I knew I should've kept my mouth shut about the flare! No blurring or skin smoothing going on though. I think people understand and are totally cool with it when something has been obviously been manipulated (Texture in #3) and you are not trying to "trick" them. It's when you ARE trying to trick them and you don't pull it off (Flare in #1) that's not so cool. Still working on it!

Those are so freaking cool!!!!!!!!!