tom grubbe 0 Posted July 16, 2002 Beach & Evening Light - Taken in mid November 1999 at Big Sur, CA. Taken during a very productive outing after a stormy afternoon.Details: Canon Elan II, E100VS, Sigma 28-80@~30mm, 2-stop ND-grad, f22@~4" Link to comment
aoelckers 0 Posted July 16, 2002 All of your shots are just amazing. I really love them. I've been wanting to go up to the Big Sur area for quite some time to take pictures... and this makes me want to even more. Great job! I'm looking forward to seeing more of your work. Link to comment
acer iddibhai on aim 0 Posted July 16, 2002 fantastic light! I too thought it look more an oil painting than a photo! Link to comment
jeremy_smith 0 Posted July 17, 2002 this is truly fantastic lighting! i agree with the above comment that it looks like a painting. it's always amazing (and refreshing) to see a beach uncluttered with homo sapiens. Link to comment
mg 0 Posted July 17, 2002 Composition is excellent. Light and colors are attractive, yet, after a short while, something bothered me: the color contrast between the right rocks and the left rocks. Therefore only 8 for me in Aesthetics. Regards. Link to comment
pschoen 0 Posted July 17, 2002 I'll just add to the praise. Wonderful light. The water is magic. Link to comment
michel_bekaert 0 Posted July 18, 2002 I hardly believed it's a natural picture until I saw the technical details... exposure time 4 s... I understand better... Anyway it's one of the more aesthetic picture I have ever seen. Looks like a classical oil painting ! Great Link to comment
tom grubbe 0 Posted July 19, 2002 "Looks like a painting..." probably because I dodged and burned the heck out of this one in Pshop. This is the most digitally retouched shot in my gallery. You always have to do a little digital fixup for slide scans to get them to look like the slide on the light table. But I did go a little nuts on this shot - I didn't remove or add anything artificial, only the rocks were touched up. Thanks for the honest comments! -Tom Grubbe Link to comment
wenge_shi 0 Posted July 26, 2002 It is a great shot. However I have noticed that the top of rock was darkened by using ND filter. It is tricky to use the filter in this kind of lighting situation. Link to comment
dave foster 0 Posted August 11, 2002 These color and saturation values look very much like a Maxfield Parrish painting. I think the ND filter adds to the photo by darkening edges on the somewhat wide lens. Great work. I would definatly hang this on my wall. I love this area too. It really brings me back to those Headlands. Is that Elephant Rock by any chance? Link to comment
tom grubbe 0 Posted August 17, 2002 No Dave, this is at/near Garrapata State Park/Beach which is about 20min. south of Carmel, CA. You can't miss it if you drive down Hwy 1 in that area. Link to comment
sphoto 0 Posted August 18, 2002 I lived in Santa Barbara right on the beach for 6 years, but wasnt into photography then. Your seascapes make me long for the beach life again, and remind me of the importance of timing. Visitng a beach ona sunny day wont get you any of the shots you posted! Only after a stormy, cloudy and unique atmosheric conditions will surreal seascapes be captured. I guess thats true with any landscape, thats what seems to me to set ansel adams apart in his work: timing and weather conditions... Am I wrong? Link to comment
walter_strong2 0 Posted November 27, 2002 Hey Tom, I was over at the coast last weekend and I didn't see ANYTHING like this! Are you sure these were taken in California?! Link to comment
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