13-06-2010

It is a beautiful, melodic image.  Nicely done.  Dan

Jeff, I really like your style in capturing calmness. The little rock is a little bit distracting. but very nice work.

Thanks you both for the positive feedback. I've just done a new crop and removed the rock with content-aware fill.

Jeff,

I like the cool blue tones in this photo, your positioning of the horizon and rocks works well for me

Thanks for sharing,

  Brendan.

Well,first of all I love the scene captured,the tonality in the water is really rich blending differents kinds of greens...If we speak about visual purity I'm  bit agree with our colleague ,but for me don't dirturb exactly, if not, gives to the scenery a less minimalist impression.Is more, maybe will be fantastic to see other option with more rocks til the confluence of the frame working as a image's base .I'm not sure if I  explained well.Best regards

Outstanding Jeff, the color pallette is beautiful. The calm atmosphere just emanates from the image. The small rock removal is an improvement, I have nothing to critique on the new version.

I really like the atmosphere and colors in this one, thanks for sharing!

Dear Jeff, again and again you pilgrimage back to your holy site in quest for the ultimate photo and you discover that it is not a single shot but the variety of all of them which is the ultimate result you can achieve. Karl 

Superb minimalist landscape photography. Beautiful pastel-like colors.

Nice to see you've gone square again Jeff as I think you do that particularly well (no pun intended). I must investigate this content-aware fill; never heard of it. The blues are nice and provide a change from the usual red hues usually associated with seascapes. I'd have to disagree with Volker though, there is rather a lot of content for a minimalist image.

Thanks everyone for the positive feedback. This shot was taken looking East after sunset. It is f/16 23 seconds at ISO 100. I have been very busy lately but hope to get back to the beach soon. This is a good time of year for this sort of shot.

I guess that this is minimalist compared to the average seascape. It certainly has a lot less rocks and saturated colour than the norm.

So serene, excellent colours, best wishes

Thanks Terry.

Mike, content aware fill is in CS5. It lets you get rid of some stuff that would have been very difficult before. I must experiment to see how well it handles subtle gradation like sky.

In this image removing the rock was easy. It would have been hard without it.

The crop seemed to work better at first sight for me, but after a while I am not sure. Besides the nice light and color, the repeat of shapes is a strong point here IMO. Clouds seem to move towards UR, and are connected to the rocks diagonally and by their shapes. This little rock LL is on the diagonal, like a focal point, I would not crop. An excellent seascape.

I'm betwixt and between on removing the FG rock.  I see both sides of the point, but still can't decide.  What I do know is that I love the image--  kind of ethereal and other-worldly.  Well done, Jeff!  Cheers!  Chris