Heceta Head Lighthouse, Oregon

This is the ocean and seaside looking northward from the Pacific

Coastal range mountainside to Heceta Head Lighthouse, an Oregon state

park or preserve, on the rugged Pacific Ocean, north of Florence,

Oregon and south of Yachats (pronounced 'Ya - hots', an Indian

name). Your ratings and critiques are invited and most welcome. If

you rate harshly or very critically, please submit a helpful and

constructive comment/please share your superior photographic

knowledge to help improve my photography. Thanks! Enjoy! John

(This precarious photo vantage was not for acrophobics, as it was

taken with a direct dropoff of over 500 to 800 feet directly onto the

rocks and waves straight below in the face of a howling wind -- jc)

I like this very much. It stirs emotions, it's balanced (rule of thirds respected!). Maybe it appears a little bit rotated to the right, but I think it has to do with the lines in the picture, so just an optical illusion. Definitely another one to enlarge and expose!

Luca

 

PS You give the chance to interact on your takes, this is rare on PN and this I like very much. Besides many of your pictures, of course!

who saw his 'compositions' or 'plastic art' scenes unfold before him with great regularity, I am not so blessed -- I see them but with infrequency.

 

Those I get, I hope I take with integrity and well, but if I spent my lifetime taking and posting only those, my folders would be fairly slim compared to what they are now, and I'd only be an imitator or 'of the school of' instead of my own person.

 

And I am my own person, with my own tastes, which run the gamut from nudes, to news, to fine art, to landscapes to street (my first and greatest love) as well as 'street portraiture' -- also a love.

 

This is posted just because I happen to like it. I found it among earlier captures, and decided to share it, regardless of what it does to the integrity of the folder in which I am posting it as a 'genre' folder -- it didn't start out that way, and viewers need to be reminded that I am not a one-dimensional person, a person with 'blinders' on, who only sees one sort of view -- I see manifold views, including 'landscapes', which I hope I can capture with beauty.

 

I find the midday ocean landscape in color particularly hard to capture, but facing north in summer daylight really helped, since the sun was overhead, to the back, and the sea was greatly agitated, adding tension, foam, and parallel lines to the composition (which is why I took the photograph, as well as because of great detail within the waves and otherwise.

 

Also, I may have erred in posting the lens -- this may have been taken with my legendary 80~200 -- legendary for its sharpness. This is so sharp it appears almost oversharpened, but it is barely (if at all) sharpened, even though photo pundits say ALL digital photos must be sharpened.

 

Well, some must, but this one didn't need more than a touch; for printing, I'll have to redo it without any sharpening at all (printing shows sharpening even more than web presentation and so must be worked up differently if a print appears 'sharp' even though it hasn't really been 'sharpened' -- even if it has to be 'blurred' slightly -- as this one might have to be.

 

This is a 6.1 megapixel image, too, but taken at pretty low ISO, for pretty good saturation, with the exposure 'right on'. In looking at my exposures, I just took one, if you can imagine that. I didn't take a range and then 'settle on the best -- I knew what the best was, and the howling cold wind was buffeting me so much, I just snapped the shutter and moved on.

 

So, surprise, I am a man of more than one talent.

 

Photo.net should be fun as well as hard work; if the fun's out of it, then one should move on.

 

I think you're not really surprised, are you Luca?

 

Thanks for your kind comment, as always.

 

John (Crosley)

Hi John. Beautiful composition here. The color is outstanding and the image is nice and sharp. Yes, maybe it could be rotated a bit but if I had a buck for every one that I've shot like that....

I'll place it against grids and rulers and if needs a little rotation, I'll do that, and substitute the rotated photo.

 

Thanks for the 'heads up' -- I always appreciate that.

 

And thanks for giving me your comment -- it's very much appreciated.

 

John (Crosley)

 

 

Well John, since this is my backyard, all I can say (will say) is, great wave action.

Sounds like you have some real issues going on so, nice photo.

This is not a new photo, but I shoot a dearth of landscapes and occasionally like to post one -- especially if it really captures the essence of something.

 

I am sure you agree, this is exactly what that lighthouse looks like when the ocean is 'up' instead of 'flat'.

 

And, it provides some parallel (of sorts) lines, for aid in composition, which is helpful.

 

Anything is helpful in an ocean photo where often vast expanses are simply shimmering blue -- and easily become a cliche.

 

But the sea at this place often is rough -- sometimes the foam from the waves here is taken off by hurricane force winds and blown over the mountain I was on -- for a real thrill if one is driving. . . .

 

A girlfriend once complained that all that 'foam' was a reflection of 'pollution' - the more pollution the more foam. It simply is from nutrients in the water and micro-organisms feeding on them, which is the basis for the entire ocean-borne food chain.

 

We know that; too bad some others get things mixed up, isn't it?

 

I'm glad you stopped by and commented -- a comment from an Oregon local who is used to such grandeur pulls special weight.

 

John (Crosley)