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The last shot from this day and year and one of my favourites. Your

comments are most welcome.

The middle-format detail, texture, colors - I like it all. The composition is unobtrusive, but effective.

Wow, great detail tempting me to go medium format.

Excelente luz, color y bello encuadre, saludos Jeff...http://www.hectorbrandan.com/images/julio-carmona.gif

This is my favourite of your recent uploads. It is perfectly balanced, IMO. Detail is reproachless, of course. Top quality colors and composition, an excellent seascape

Bella y delicada

Excellent picture!

Regards

Thanks for the feedback, folks. As always, it is most appreciated.

Simply breath taking Jeff, it is so very beautiful and perfect in all parameters,your observation , composition ,light, exposure.Hard to choose a favorite....Pnina

Thanks Pnina, this is my favourite of the recent shots. It was quite a morning and well worth the early start, in retrospect.

Jeff, this is among the nicest of your most-recent shots.

 

The warm palette makes it different from the others, somewhat more soothing. I like the layering of the composition, of course, which has the added value of layering different textures, level of sharpness, or blurred water.

 

I am glad you included the rock to the top right. It blocks a dangerous diagonal of water/sand interface which might have brought the eye out, and balances the shadows of the foreground rock.

Jeff, You are a hard man to keep up with. I don't think I'll be able to view (with the appropriate amount of time alloted to each one) all of your excellent posts let alone comment\critique each of them. This latest offering is just gorgeous. You have found a location worth mining and more often than not manage to strike pure gold. What grabs me about this one is the sharpness of the major elements which are rendered even more sharp, by contrast, through the softness of the water. The low lighting ratio has allowed for details to be revealed in both the shadow and highlight areas and the use of reflections has added an element of interest. One instance where a polarizer, fully utilized, would be a liability rather than an asset. The texture of the sand is most interesting as it appears to be quite course. This simply adds to the apparent sharpness of the shot. Exposure and composition are also superb with just the right amount of sky showing. How often do you print these gems and to what size? I would love to see a selection of 30x30's at a gallery. I might be in for a bit of a swim for that though:-) Best, LM.

I always knew that you'd perfect your art. :-)

Jeff, really good to see your new work. What really strikes me here are the lovely gradations in tones among these whispers of water. Very masculine tones, which are further enhanced by the hard edged geometry in this stone and the gritty sand. The more feminine tones of the water and sky are at work to balance this out. This is outstanding work Jeff -- it has feel of being highly integrated.

Thanks for the positive feedback folks. This is an image that I like a lot and it is great to get such a positive response.

 

Len, funnily enough, I don't print a lot of shots. My grandson is the subject of choice for printing. It's one of those things that I keep on meaning to do, but I promise that you will get fair warning for the swim, when I do.

Superb shot with great delicate colors, simple composition. Excellent !

Best regards, Fernand

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I think that this is rather typical of Jeff Grant's beautiful water scenes. It has the rocky shore, the clear sky and flat water. In this particular image, I think the lengthy exposure to make the water flat, also created a swirling misty water area that is too white compared to the rest of the photo about midway up the left side. Granted, this offers us motion in the image, but unless my eye is supposed to be drawn to that point rather than the large rock and the vast openness of the ocean, I believe the white water should be toned down. The detail, especially the sand grains, is outstanding and I complement Jeff on this the rest of the photograph. Nice work, and you have a splendid portfolio to peruse.

 

Willie the Cropper

Although it is simply a matter of personal taste, I still cannot understand after all these years the tradition of using long time exposures to blur motion in water, typically on a beach but sometimes in a stream. Those who like that kind of treatment like it, and those who do not probably never will.

 

Having said that, I can appreciate the technical competence of this shot, knowing that the photographer probably got exactly what he was trying to get, i.e., the blurred (and to my eyes milky) effect to which I refer above. I see in fact the result of an accomplished master of this technique. I simply prefer a bit more realism in my nature (especially water) shots, and exposures of water that blur out the real motion, removing all ripples, and leaving us with the appearance of a milky substance running over and off of rocks and sand will always leave me a bit baffled, as will the raves that such photos receive. For me it usually comes down to one simple admittedly non-photographic criterion: is this the kind of water that I would want to launch a kayak into? If not, then I feel that I have lost that pristine clarity of water--especially moving water--that makes me want to venture out into it. Put another way, it is the waves in water that I find most interesting, and any technique that takes away the waves and the limpid clarity of pure water makes the photo less, not more, interesting to me.

 

--Lannie

Jeff, this is an awesome image. I personally like the effects of the water, especially with a waterfall. Well done.

Congrats Jeff, this one deserves it for sure. I especially like the glittering sand and perfect light. Also interesting that you've got this result using Velvia 100, which is difficult in these contrasty low light situations.

What makes this shot interesting to me is that there is so much blue in the reflections on the water on the rock and not anywhere else in the whole image. That fact really draws your eye to the rock and its wet reflections and keeps it there.

I still cannot understand after all these years the tradition of using long time exposures to blur motion in water"

Initially, many photographers just settle for this effect, as any scene requiring sharp imagery from near to far (great depth of field) dictates a small aperture to realize that clarity in the final photograph.

These small apertures, especially in overcast or twilight conditions, dictate a long shutter speed, hence the softened look that is unavoidable in moving water and so disturbs/confounds you, Landrum.

Certain photographers turn this incidental effect to a deliberate stylistic element, and extend the effect by using neutral density filters to further slow the shutter, even in bright conditions. This may be what Jeff Grant has done. It does make a surreal effect within a literal image that some people have aesthetic issues with, of which you appear to be one.

I had thought this "technique" was easily understood by anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of photography, but maybe not... t

Nice feel of the place Jeff, as usual.

 

As most here know, I like to keep the meat and toss the rest in my work. I shoot Hassey also, and although it's originally squre when I shoot, it may not be that way when it's released, thus the suggested crop.

 

Someone asked about the blue on the rocks; water acts as a natural polarizer, thus the blue cast to it.

This upload should be small enough. It said no larger than 100k and althouh it was 99k maybe it was too wide.

 

65k and 500x500 now.