Coming to grips

Still coming to grips with the OM D, your comments are most welcome,

thanks.

Very nice composition

Best regards

Xavier Corcobado

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Hi Jeff, the composition is very good. I do not spend much time at the seaside, the sky looks special, and I admit, somewhat unnatural to me. Were there dark clouds at the horizon ? Did long exposure obliterate their shapes ? Did you use an ND grad ?

Thanks Xavier and Peter. This is the Earth shadow after sunset, and a bit of a stuffup combined. I was using a new Lee RF75 system and had found the ND grad on the sand. I had no idea what I had done so I left it in the holder. Shooting at base ISO of 200 on lenses that go funny after f/8 makes quiet a change after a Hasselblad. This has a 3 stop ND and a 3 stop hard grad. I lightened the sky in LR and like the result.

Jeff, I feel ashamed for having been so ignorant, I forgot about the Earth's shadow. Now everything makes sense to me.

I think it's beautifully composed, and I always like to see the earth's shadow -- it makes for a great sky.  Initially I thought the bottom looked just a tad light relative to the top (or the top a tad dark relative to the bottom), but in thinking about it I'm not sure it could or should be any other way.  However, I think it would be worth trying slightly less darkening of the sky with the GND filters (or Lightroom changes). 

I would have guessed that this was one of your H4D seascape series.  At this size, I think the best judge will be your eyes on your monitor; from my view, I think the OM-D is doing great.

Peter, with it that dark, confusion is easy. Living where I do on the East coast, Earth shadow is what I get to shoot for sunsets.

Steve, it is heavier than normal for me, and I wouldn't have done it intentionally. I hate those awful, deep blacky blue sots from too much filtration but I thought that this was a little better than that.

Dear Jeff, it looks like yuo get accustomed to the OMD! This photo has the same astonishing density of colors and the smoot transition of tones that I find so much comforting on your Hasselblad photos.

I would not have expected this result from the Olympus. So much the better! It is the photographer who makes the picture :-). Congratulations. Karl

Thanks Karl, it's still looking good. I need to make some prints but the smoothness is certainly there. So far, so good.

The Hassy is on sabbatical?  Or just resting it's sensor?  Whatever, this seems to give credence to the saying ' Your camera doesn't matter',  at least at web sizes.  I would have believed this was one of your Hassy cropped efforts.  Good to see you are back 'On the Beach',  on familiar home territory.  I too thought the sky had an artificial look to it, like some Photoshop hanky panky that didn't quite gel.  But it is what it is.  Sometimes nature plays these tricks on us.  Put me down on the side that likes the composition too.  Best, LM.

Thanks Len, I've tried different cameras over the years for things that the Hasselblad can't do well or when I want lightness. I had a Pentax 645, a Sony A900 and now an olympus OM D. It is a delight to use, and the images are excellent. It is a bit bizarre to have a camera where people call a $1K lense expensive though, but even that looks like it may change as both Zeiss and Schneider are starting to make M43 lenses.

Very beautiful image. The beach and the stone make a excellent foreground.

Ben

Very nice. To me it's one of your nicer ocean shore images. I like the distribution of the colors. I don't think I've ever seen the earth's shadow like this. The clarity of the rock and smooth effervescence of the surf makes a nice package. BTW, I would have guessed this was done with a Hassy.