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Nowadays it has become fashionable to photograph the sea at long

exposure times. Contrary to that trend I decided to use 1/500 s. to

freeze the motion of the waves.

All comments welcome!

I whole heartedly agree with you Tomasz.  It has gotten to the point that nearly all images of water, particularly shorelines, are blurred into nearly unrecognizable swirls of blue, green, and white, or blurred until they no longer even exist!  Currently, only if you are capturing the single drop of water rebounding do you seem allowed to portray its properties frozen in time.  You have captured a beautiful seascape here in my opinion, a good leading lines taking you visually to the horizon..  Perhaps a bit dark to the BG, but then again the Baltic Sea is not quite the tropics either.  Thank you for sharing.  Best regards...

-Dave

Best regards Tomasz!

PDE

................. Dave has said it all and there is no need to repeat.

The clarity and definition here is very good.

I would however like to ask what lens was used, as (in the bigger picture) there is a distinctive (yet balanced) curve to the horizon.

All in all I like this image immensely...... especially the image format.

Regards

I'd like to thank you all, Gentlemen, very much for your time and the kind words. The picture was taken with a Canon 350D equipped with a Tamron 18-50 / f:2.8, and I myself am surprised with the amount of distortion (?) manifesting itself at the horizon line. It is present in the RAW image, too, so it has nothing to do with the post-processing, very moderate in this case. I use the PhotoFiltre software, and the photo was cropped, then the saturation and contrast adjusted. I am not a strong image manipulation fan... ;-)

Many thanks again! :)

Tomasz:  I agree that the long exposures with water have been over done lately.  I too prefer the strong image you shot showing the power of the surf crashing.  It's more natural and what our eyes see when we're there.  I can almost hear it too.  Alan.

Take away the dark dot at the top. or the fantastic green in that wave, and all the strength of this north-eastern seascape completely would have gone. Magnificant moment plus composing, Tomasz. Thanks, for suddenly I did realise that my grandfather- around the twenties - was sailing overthere..!