atlantic beach may 2005 Sea Port, Reprise

Constructive comportment welcomed . . .

i like it ...

Sweet! Couldn't be better....

Bello encuadre y un color perfectos.. la composicion excelente,, un cordial saludo.. 6/6

nice shot, was this a time exposure at night with the birds placed in there?

Great shot. Like a movie ad.

Great ...!

Woow, you have got stars, moon, sunlight, birds everything here ... !!!

Thanks everyone for the constructive encouragement; and Angus this is not a time lapse photograph although such speculation is a compliment. No it's simply a bit of Photoshop magic (quite a bit to be more exact) with a pinch of early 20th century surrealism. Many of the works I post are precursors to poster designs and large format fine art photographs I'm developing for my graphic design business. And because I am also a painter, they (and you) help me to ferret out the most effective images. So the clean fantasy element is important to me because I aiming at a broad audience. Glad you like it.

Hi, I don't wish to be negative and hope you don't take my comments the wrong way. I think your editing in this picture could do with some more work. This picture struck me as being an obvious photoshop edit the very first instant I saw it. The clouds are in the wrong place, these types of clouds are almost always overhead. The moon is too strong and too large. The gradient is much too obvious considering the lower half of the image is very much a bright sunny day . The concept of day and night together needs to be stonger and more obvious if it's to work well. As it is it looks like a bad choice of filter. I would also suspect that the birds should have a degree of motion blur given the typical shutter speed and aperture combinations used in the shot. My comments are intended to be constructive and I hope they don't cause offence!

This is a more complex PS edit than I am capable of, so kudos to you for that. But I do agree with Mr. Plewes about the importance of having a consistent vision throughout the image. The clouds not reflecting properly in the water is very distracting and that sky gradient is indeed too sharp. Also, in nature a full moon will never be visible overhead during daylight, except just before sunrise or just after sunset - it's an inviolable fact of the spatial geometry involved. However, even with all that being said, this is a great image and I have spent more time looking around it than I give to most PN images. So in that sense this effort is a success to me.

Blue moon

I saw you standing alone

no .. not quite alone

here together with 3 birds flying at night and with boats and reflection.

 

It's a very nice work of manipulation

 

 

Really enjoyed reading your critique of my work. Thus far, it is the most complete I have received to date, so thanks for your time and insight. After reading your comment, I went to your workspace to observe your photos and I did not see any evidence of Photoshop work which is OK; I was just curious. Now as for your method of critique, your sentences are filled with imperatives (e.g., too strong, too large, too wrong, bad choice of filter, etc.) although I do appreciate your suggestion regarding a possible motion blur for the pelicans. What impressed me most is that you rated the work 4/4.

 

I would just like to suggest the next time you employ such sweeping observations that you consider the effort that goes into putting such a piece together. Not counting the hours spent photographing these images, the actual image is composed of hundreds of blendings and about forty layers, all adding up to a 200 megabyte file. With 4 Gigabytes of DDR (Ram) and an ATI RADEON 256MB X800XL video card, I am equipped to handle large files.

 

Finally, I do not hide behind artist intent because for me there are sometimes aspects of my work that I may need to place in a developmental mode; that is how I challenge myself to improve. So thanks again for the cloud observations and you too Patrick!

On theotherhand, this piece is surrealistic; what you have isolated and deemed irregular is parceled with the poetry of the moment (I know, too dramatic). I assume you understand that surreal means dream-like, but, what actually holds the work together is a more technical element---Eye Level. The sea port is in perspective and Patrick, cloud reflections can come from anywhere (although these are in perspective as well). I did not use a wide angle lens on any of the shots, I used a 70/300 Nikor zoom-zoom-zoom lens ( sorry, been watching too many Mazda car commercials). Thus, the sky that you would like to see overhead Ben, is in fact, if you locate eye level. So, fellows, as long as the clouds and the moon (up above) are at or above eye level . . . ?

 

Thanks again guys

 

for your encouragement; I generally visit the workspaces of those who comment on my work and found your portfolio exceptional; very strong photographically but I am equally impressed with the poetic nature of your shots; you have posted an eclectic and well presented group of images that are as aesthetically breathtaking as they are stylistically akin to your eye. Awe inspiring! I placed you on my list of interesting people.

Masterful manipulation !!!

 

Maybe this site should be called photoshop.net !!

Thanks for the encouragement Amey.

Thanks for taking you time to look through my portfolio. And thanks so much for your very generous words ... made me glad and smiling big

 

...and now I'll try to take my arms down again (((-;

 

There my list of interesting people grew again.

Oh, yes daer Timothy, I actually wanted to ask you if this photo was a remake of your previous one, and than I saw the Reprise in the title, but was not sure!

You made a wonderful change here, in colors and all. I love very much this version :)

So great blue and light and moon and reflection! all is so beautiful!

 

Well done!

 

Thank YOu,

Biliana

I appreciate your responses, Timothy. In all truth your effort is really impressive to me because the achievement is more than I'm currently capable of doing. I love PS and the entire editing process, and unlike a sizable contingent out here on PN, I have absolutely no qualms about using that tool to improve any image in any way you want. I am a strong proponent of the idea that the artist gets the artistic license and the viewer only gets to have a reaction. So I definitely respect your process and especially your skills, and that's why I am glad for this dialogue. I hope that my comments have only informed you of my reaction. I generally take the approach that I want to edit my work freely, yet I don't want that effort to be obvious to any viewers. But I am out here at PN to take in different approaches, which I guess to some extent maybe yours is. So thanks for sharing your work and your opinions - both are impressive.

I also meant to address the clouds and moon again (per your request). It seemed to me that the clouds above the foreground boat ought to be reflecting in the near water. You could make a case that no cloud reflections are missing and I'd be willing to go with it. But my instinct when I noticed that disparity was to assume the clouds had been added in. About the moon, a full moon like that one will never be able to appear in that position of the sky at that time of day. But so what? It does look good there and it certainly serves to enhance the etheral feel you are going for. Plus I don't think too many people have really considered the spatial geometry of the sun, moon and earth as far as full moons go. So the observation I made there will probably never occur to a large majority of your viewers, and therefore I maybe shouldn't have mentioned it to begin with. The image does look great.

 

Thanks for your continued very thoughtful interest in my composition; I am kind of like you when something peaks my interest; I curiously seek out its reason for being. But here, in fine art, I have such a wonderful opportunity to place day and night within the same time continuum and I am not the first to do such a thing. A surrealist, Rene Magritte, (born 1899) composed this effect in some of his paintings. Also, a very famous photograph by Ansel Adams, Moonrise Hernandez, features an inspiring moon (you can view it on google). Moreover, logic does not function well in the fine art domain; illogic yes but logic mmmm. To fully enjoy art, the more you are able to analyze and scrutinize, (which we can all do) the more you have to distance yourself from your professional and personal biases. Emmanuel Kant, (born 1724) seventh century philosopher once wrote: ----That which the imagination can play in an unstudied and disinterested manner will always me new to us---(or something close to this). What I have created here Patrick is more what I do as a painter than a photographer (which brings us to a very interesting nexus).

 

 

Thanks again.