Surf's Up

I like the lighting that highlights the action of the water. Was this natural lighting or enhanced in PS? Either way, it's very appealing, Jerry.

Kim, it's natural light (about 10 minutes before sunset). I did adjust the level a little bit to show some texture on the background rock.

Surf's up... Comments and suggestions welcome.

Powerful image, well composed. Seems a little oversatured in color. Congrat

Impressive, excellent, I agree with Fausti, maybe a bit too saturated

Magnifica fotografia, la luz es bella y la escena impresionante.Un saludo

Fausti, Manel and Pedro for your comments. The color shown on the picture is the actual color. Here is one that I decrease the saturation for 25% in PS.

The color is amazing. I'm sure it was a magic moment. Regards, thanks for posting the other version.

Hmmm. When the photographer's notes say he shot with Fuji Velvia I never see these "oversaturated" comments....

 

Nice shot, well timed to catch both the spray and backwash in the foreground.

Carlos, thanks for the comments and I agree with your point about the saturated colors. Maybe next time I should take the same shot with Velvia and see what will it look like.

Jerry,

 

Please don't missunderstand me, your photo is excellent, its just that the red is really very impressive. I'm not at all a detractor of digital methods.

 

If you want to see an oversaturated velvia photo to illustrate your point, I myself have one:

 

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3007613

 

This yellow is totally unreal.

Thinking about this discussion, I can remember this "satured" colors in live, at several sunsets. Maybe we are not used to see it as a picture. But I keep saying that it's a great shot! Regards

I do like this shot, but I would prefer to see more DOF with the foreground rocks in focus. The smaller aperture would obviously have shutter speed implications and perhaps would take away from the drama of the scene. Anyway, that's the beauty of digital... to be able to see it "live" and shoot things different ways.

 

Nice work.

motion and light - a clever catch