2005-12-14 #3

Beautiful capture. So serene and the colours are spectacular! Bravo! Iren

Leigh, I just found your portfolio and - what can I say that hasn't already be said - outstanding! And better yet, inspirational. I just received delivery of my 1st 4x5 this week and am now awaiting the Velvia to be delivered but my alarm is set for "sunrise minus 1 hour" at which time I'll be off to the beach tomorrow with my Mamiya.

Leigh, love the image. I like the way the sky and sand compliment each other. 6/6

I feel this one is very different from your usual work, that by the way is fantastic. At first I wouldn't admire this one as I do with your other seascape, but the far lonely rock makes me want to look again at this one. I think this is a very good picture, but not my favorite from you.

 

I hope you keep giving us many beautiful seascapes to look at.

 

Cheers.

 

 

Leigh - All three of these are utterly and absolutely fantastic. I could pile on the superlatives. You've punched through to something new. You've found a new way to describe the world. I'm excited. I might quibble a little on the edges with some of your editing choices, but that's just noise. These are photographs that make me want to go take photographs - they remind me how powerful a well seen photograph can be. Hold on to whatever you've found for as long as you can!

 

Cheers,

Eric

I don't think Eric's overstating his case. I'm trying to analyze what it is exactly that you've tapped into, and all I can come up with is an unobtrusive use of a grad filter, a great sense of shutter speed to capture water movement, and the patience / luck to get the clouds right. The sense of composition I take for granted from you, since my feeling is that you mastered that a long time ago. There is probably something else that I'm missing regarding why this series works especially well, and I'd be interested in hearing other commenters try to break it down so we can all attempt to tap into this, both as viewers and creaters.

Leigh, that composition is taken at the same point , and is another version of" Wednesday morning #1, I like both of them because of the mastery of rendition, but I think that #1 "talks" to me more, because of the very rich color Pallet caused by the magical light. I like as well the rich brown/yellowish FG, of the other one that imo has a lot of nuances in the composition,every time I look at it I find new points of interest. Pnina

Leigh, it looks to me as if you are the one on a roll! I think the strength of this image has to do with the brilliant luminescence of this coppery sea, like a liquid metal, outlined with that lovely arc of gold. Furthering this quality of luminescence are the subtle shadows on the sea which tend to emphasize the highlights even more. Another related strength are the painterly transitions in tonal values. Again, these subtle shadows are giving you a hand. I'm not sure this is a new paradigm, but this certainly sits comfortably among your stronger works.

Coming late to the show I can only underline the praising comments. But why is this photo so extremely attractive ? The layered composition is not the most important factor, it is a composition like many other of your shots. First I thought it is the rock in the center, but then I think it is the artful presentation of colors and tones, delicate and powerful at the same time. There is a gradient of luminance from left to right, due to the natural light gradient. The intensity of blue shades of the water and the dark clouds on the left are spot on, the rock in the center is kind of pivotal point for colors and lighting of the water surface. Outstanding photograph !

Thanks guys. The two shoots that currently make up this folder yielded quite different atmospherics. The first shoot was very colourful, probably because the clouds diffuse and radiate the emerging colour. It has made for some fairly fruit-driven images, although with better scans I'm sure I could now interpret them with more finesse. The second shoot, at the same location, was completely clouded, and yielded ethereal images with austere palettes. I wonder what a third visit will yield -- I'm watching the weather daily...

I've managed to get an Imacon scan done of this, so, somewhat belatedly, here is a larger version.

New scan shows subtlties of color better. Even with the long time exposure due to clouds and rocks water is alive with color and rolling hills on it's surface. Regards,

Indeed noticeably better color definition, and better detail in the rock`s shadows. How did you manage this "large" sized image to be seen directly in the comments, BTW ?

Carsten, I just uploaded the attachment as normal, but went back and edited the message to include an tag that pointed directly to the attachment.