A winter beach shot for your viewing pleasure and criticism ;)

[dug777]

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/dug777/Cott.JPG

In contrast, I was there in almost 40'C yesterday, flat calm, and 11ty billion people. Alas no pics of that, but I can assure you that it was fantastic too

EDIT: Original: http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/dug777/CottOriginal.JPG

 

[Jawo]

I thought it was summer in the land down under I personally can non wait for the snow to come!

Nice pic btw.

 

[corkyg]

Lovely beach scene and lighting. Makes a nice desktop. My only criticism is, . . . I'm not there!

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: corkyg
Lovely beach scene and lighting. Makes a nice desktop. My only criticism is, . . . I'm not there!

I love it. Just one question though - where were you standing??? It appears that it was taken from atop a step ladder in the surf about 45 minutes before sunset. (I'm going by the angle of the shadows in the building close to the beach)

 

[troytime]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: corkyg
Lovely beach scene and lighting. Makes a nice desktop. My only criticism is, . . . I'm not there!

I love it. Just one question though - where were you standing??? It appears that it was taken from atop a step ladder in the surf about 45 minutes before sunset. (I'm going by the angle of the shadows in the building close to the beach)

i was going to ask the same, but then i just assumed he was standing on a pier or something

i like the shot, the colors and contrasts in the waves is nice
i wish the horizon line wasn't vertically centered though

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

Nice pic!

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: troytime
i wish the horizon line wasn't vertically centered though

Hmmm! It is not centered on my display. It is 4 3/16" from the top and 3.5" from the bottom. You want more ocean and less sky? Yeah - that would work - and it can be done by cropping.

 

[jmagg]

Thats a beaut dug.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: troytime

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: corkyg
Lovely beach scene and lighting. Makes a nice desktop. My only criticism is, . . . I'm not there!

I love it. Just one question though - where were you standing??? It appears that it was taken from atop a step ladder in the surf about 45 minutes before sunset. (I'm going by the angle of the shadows in the building close to the beach)

i was going to ask the same, but then i just assumed he was standing on a pier or something

i like the shot, the colors and contrasts in the waves is nice
i wish the horizon line wasn't vertically centered though

I was standing on a groyne

I cropped it to lose some sky and a some less 'happening' foreground, will post the original when I get home tonight (My cropping skills are anything but '1337' ).

And yeah, it's summer now, but when I took that it was late winter/early spring.

 

[dug777]

There's the original, for those who understand the art of cropping

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/dug777/CottOriginal.JPG

 

[troytime]

my cropped version

i also did some other post processing, but i did a sloppy job (at work right now, haven't had enough caffeine to de-zombify myself yet)

 

[gsellis]

I went the reverse of Troytime. Brought the water highlight to the foreground. Cut out the boring surfers in darker water. Cut out that distracting building in the background. Pushed to rule of 3rds. Fixed horizon. No color correction at all from the original, but it looks like it because I dropped the darker areas.

http://www.versatilemediasolut.../Files/CottCropped.jpg

 

[Anubis]

40C isnt that like 100F? WTF thats not winter

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: Anubis
40C isnt that like 100F? WTF thats not winter

That's in Australia. It is actually springtime in the Southern Hemisphere.

 

[Wekiva]

Originally posted by: gsellis
Pushed to rule of 3rds.

I understand about the rule of thirds...and I usually agree with it. But for this image I think having an equal amount of sky and water looks better than cropping out half the water. IMHO.

 

[magomago]

I'll second that. It should be noted the "Rule of thirds" is an apparant simplifacation of another rule, which can be seen especially in this one http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/dug777/Cott.JPG

If we had to draw it it'd look like this



split.gif

That is more what I was thinking of

 

[montanafan]

Very nice shot, dug, sharp and great color.