the beach

added the sky as the origional was to bland

Very nice, love the texture of the sky and the beach. Nice!

beautiful combination of color, form, perspective and focus

I love this, and I was going to ask if you did something to get the sky to have so much detail without losing any in the beach. Great job. Very inviting.

Nice, dramatic sky and I like the fence leading your eyes up to the clouds. Good color and tones.

Great. A bit diferent and fascinating.

Great sky!!!! Love it! I think this could work better if you change the proportion of the sky and the ground like 3 sky x 1 beach. Thank you for sharing!

I really like this photo. My eye is drawn to the clouds in the background by the fence. Excellent job.

...this is fantastic!!!!

Kevin

 

Once again an image that immediately demands to be opened and enjoyed!!!

an arresting one. i'd be tempted to crop 20% from the LHS and 30 % from the RHS, leaving a portrait format with the posts less central - but your unusual composition also works well.

 

also, a small and probably irrating niggle, if you don't mind - why is the dark part of the sky above where the posts end so grainy but the pale area to the right not?

Beautiful color and composition!

Superb photo. The sand is exquisitly exposed and focused and the colour of the dramatic sky really lends beauty. The walking figures add a great sense of scale. Slightly problematic imho(and perhaps just on my screen,) is an area to the far right above the horizon line, where the clouds don't seem to gel. Other than that-perfection.

At first I was very taken by this image - it is a pretty effective composition. But two related things began to bother me. Just my opinions, but here goes.

 

First, I noticed something odd about the line where the water and the clouds meet. I've photographed similar ocean scenes and the horizon is normally blurred at least a bit by the rain, etc. But here it looks - especially in the middle - like a razor sharp line.

 

Then I read the comment that the sky was added because the image "was bland." That does raise some questions I think. Maybe it should be called something like a "photo collage" rather than simply a "photograph?"

 

I'm certainly not against manipulating a photo or even moving around some elements of the image in some cases. I just wonder how the meaning of the image changes depending upon whether the scene actually occurred or was invented?

 

Take care,

 

Dan

It's a very impressive image, Kevin, but as noted above I do find the cleanness of the line between the sea and the sky a little niggling, given the likelihood that in a storm of this sort there would probably be a blur between the two. I love it, all the same.

I'm also put off by the clean break between the sky and the water at the horizon line. Also, the sun seems to be peeking through the clouds. One would therefore expect to see some glare on the water, rather than a flat, uniform appearance.