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Beach & Evening Light


tom grubbe

Used a Cokin hard-edge 2-stop grad not a Singh-Ray.


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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"

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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"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

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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.
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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?
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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.
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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?
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