Sea Power II

Too dark?? Crop OK?? TIA Louis

Too dark - yes. The sky i dramatic inough so why not show more of the rocks surface?

Cropping OK - yes, very OK.

The frame is really good.

Louis, I like the darkness. I think it adds to the mood. I love a real dark emotional image. Many, many feel very different about that so I wouldn't doubt if I am in the minority on that.

 

I don't know why but I want more 'stuffs' to the right. I just feel it needs more rocks, water, whatever on that side to balance it a bit more. Of course I don't know what was present there. Maybe cropping some of the foreground stuff out might do it for me. Just not sure

 

Love the detail in it. Overall a nice image.

Excellent composition and tones !! Congrats. Ciao Stefano

The first thing I saw when I looked at this photo wasn't the crop or the subject - it was the mood. This photo just has so much feeling that even someone like me who is use to picking apart the photos of myself and, to a lesser extent, others forgets to pick it apart.

Great photo!

I think the mood is the photo. Seascapes are very tough subjects because they tend toward the trite. You have broken the mold here. This is one of the very best seascape photographs I have ever seen. This is a pair of sevens.

I love this. The composition is great, and the breaking wave in the centre is an important feature (well timed shot!). It is very dark, but as others have said that makes it moody. The sky in particular makes it look incredibly dark - is that a red-filter at work, or photo-shopped?

 

I think I might lighten it just a touch - to get more detail on the rocks without losing the mood. If possible.

Thanks everyone.

The mood is what I was after. The sea was strong that day and there is a small church just at the edge of the sea with all sorts of offerings etc. put there by the local fishermen.

 

I was going darker but stopped here. I work in a fairly dark room and the image looks pretty strong to me. I hope it will be the the same as a big glossy print.

 

The area of the wave on the beach gave a sort of triangle. I have cropped about 5% off top and bottom otherwise a full image. There were more small rocks etc to the right but the wave was important and I kept it at that part of the image.

 

The rocks still have lots of tone and the really dark bits don't have a lot of detail so I reckon the overall tone is OK.

 

Louis

Tone, comp and darkness are very fine.

The image was converted to B/w using strong settings in the channel mixer aiming for an IR effect. Then I duped the layer and set it to multiply and then used a mask to remove varying amounts of the dupe layer from 30-100%.

 

There are 3 other recent image in this folder "Tras Os Montes" is one similar type work.

 

Hope that helps.

Louis

One can feel seaa powerin this shot. Excellent!

Very nice phtoograph. I think, though, you could have saved some time by just buying a view camera and prnting it the old fashioned way (only sort of kidding). The composition is good, and I don's see anything blocked up, either dark or light, so you're OK there. Maybe if you do this sort of shot again, maybe try a second exposure at about 1/8 sec or so to soften the spray and water movement a bit, not that there's anything wrong with what you have here. Good job!

Tom Would the 1/8 create a lot of softness when this is really an action shot of the wave hitting the rock and the previous wave receding from the sand?

 

Thanks

louis

this is the same thing....I love the phot but I also get the feeling that the photo is tilted....but fantastic contrast and composition.

"Pnet Horizon Master"

Yes again this drop a bit to the right. I saw it as earth curvature as I used a 17mm lens on my Canon 10D. Thanks again. I have corrected and replaced the image above.

Louis

Very nice.

 

Two nits. The gray mat, and the lower left contrasty element.

Lower left?

Do you mean the small stone closer to the bottom than the left?

 

I used the mat as I found a plain white too bright! What would you suggest?

Thanks for looking. Much appreciated.

On the exposure time question: you should do some experiments to see what time differences look like next time you're at the coast. I was at Big Sur last Feb and did a whole series of exposures late in the day, from 1/60 to 30 seconds, as the light failed, so I'd have a reference of what water looks like at various shutter speeds. It's quite instructive. Also a friend I was with said for longer exposures it's also great to shoot when the water is flowing over the rocks after the wave breaks, but maybe you'd need a higher tide for that.

I think it's a beautiful photo just like that. Love the b/w tone!

Thanks Tom. i will do that.