Its a good shot
but it realy needs a little photoshop to clean up some things...
(noise, brightness and contrast,levels,...)
But it stills a good shot anyway
well done

I hate photo shop...this picture doesn't need anything done to it. That is my home town and it couldn't look any more beautiful if it was altered by the best fake photo creator in the world. Whoever started creating false images using photo shop should really reverse what they've done. While it's great to create a wonderful photo, it just really shows that you aren't a good photographer if you have to alter you photos. Who ever took this photo has captured the escence of the Central Coast! Thank you and I believe this picture is beautiful! Even the little birds in the distance, above the crashing waves is a nice touch!

lol
I didnt ment to say that you should change anything on the picture to make it fake
The concept is perfect
the only thing that i think you could fix is that In the dark areas there is some noise that should be cleaned up
It easly noticed on big screens
maybe if you could increase the constrast to make dark areas more dark it would fix

As you should know most pictures here are edited on photoshop , not to fake anything, but to clean up some imperfections, such as noise, lens dust, and other several things.
Details like this make all the diference.

cheers