Evening at Little Sable

Thoughts and comments welcome and greatly appreciated. Thank you.

For a first attempt, this is great! I'd be pleased if it was my 100th attempt even! Nice composition.

Jen, I've admired your talent for quite a while now. Your work always catches my eye (I have a thing for lighthouses too, but there aren't any around here). The color is fantastic, composition and resolution are also. If there is a way to improve this shot I don't know what it would be.

Very good composition. Great color balance. good use of the shades. Great work Jen.

Jen, if this is also your first attempt with off-camera metering, it's a very impressive result as the exposure looks spot-on. I also like that the polariser was used quite sparingly, preserving the soft light. The only thing I can think of that might make a stronger shot from this vantage point is a better sky.

Did you have movements to work with or simply stop down?

Thanks for the great feedback.

 

Richard, I never even used a light meter until last fall. Always used the in-camera meter. I have used my meter mainly as a flash meter when my camera is hooked to my strobes for portraits. Hardly used it at all for ambient. I took an ambient reading and then dropped down two stops for the polarzier.

 

David, I was stopped down to F11 and I think 1/100 of a second. I had terrible hand shake because of trying to cock the shutter, put the polarizer in place with the other hand, then compose and shoot. I'm surprised it came out as sharp as it did for handholding it. Plus, this camera I am sure hasn't been used for years because it came with a metal 120 spool on the takeup reel. I thought for sure the shutter was going to need adjustment but it seems to be on! The camera is tiny, so that probably helped somewhat. I can get my fingers all the way around the front when holding it from the back.

Amazing color,composition, Dof, place, etc... Congrats.

Great composition and LIGHT you´ve captured. Great moment.

 

Regards.

Very nice.

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I love the sand grains. Great composition too. Regards.