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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: shaunw on October 16, 2012, 03:39:05 pm

Title: Sundowner Devon Coast
Post by: shaunw on October 16, 2012, 03:39:05 pm: A rework from from Sept 2011 Devon coast England...

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8196/8091124825_02596987a4_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/skwalby/8091124825/)
Sundowner...Devon (http://www.flickr.com/photos/skwalby/8091124825/) by Shaunwalby Photography (http://www.flickr.com/people/skwalby/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Sundowner Devon Coast
Post by: francois on October 17, 2012, 03:40:59 am: Quote from: shaunw on October 16, 2012, 03:39:05 pm
A rework from from Sept 2011 Devon coast England...

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I like it, the soft colors and the low sun give a very relaxing, end of the day, image.
Title: Re: Sundowner Devon Coast
Post by: Wim van Velzen on October 17, 2012, 03:52:25 am: That is beautiful! What exactly was your rework? Is it very different from earlier editions you made?
Title: Re: Sundowner Devon Coast
Post by: sdwilsonsct on October 17, 2012, 10:21:18 am: Nice one. I continue to envy your perfect suns!
Title: Re: Sundowner Devon Coast
Post by: rambler44 on October 17, 2012, 10:57:00 pm: The water and rocks are very effective. I think you could cut out some of the single colored sky above the yellow. Keep just a little of the sky above the top of the clouds on the right. Any sky that is not really interesting, I tend to crop out of my images. It is the foreground that I really like the most in your image here. There is no need for us to look too long at a single colored sky when we could be looking at more interesting rocks and waves. You must have been glad to be there with your camera!
Title: Re: Sundowner Devon Coast
Post by: wolfnowl on October 18, 2012, 01:48:47 am: Don't remember the original, but this is well done.

Mike.
Title: Re: Sundowner Devon Coast
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on October 18, 2012, 03:07:15 am: Quote from: rambler44 on October 17, 2012, 10:57:00 pm
I think you could cut out some of the single colored sky above the yellow. Keep just a little of the sky above the top of the clouds on the right.

I disagree. There's interest in the whole sky; and cropping off the top would unbalance the composition. It's a fine shot as it is and I'd leave it alone.

Jeremy
Title: Re: Sundowner Devon Coast
Post by: james-greenland on October 18, 2012, 05:31:43 am: Quote from: kikashi on October 18, 2012, 03:07:15 am
I disagree. There's interest in the whole sky; and cropping off the top would unbalance the composition. It's a fine shot as it is and I'd leave it alone.

Jeremy

Same here. Even if you think of it as 'dead space' around the focal points of the composition, if it was not there the focal points wouldn't have as much impact.
I'm yet to get a sunrise/set that I'm proud of, but this is great. What sort of shutter speed were you shooting at to get the water like that?
Title: Re: Sundowner Devon Coast
Post by: shaunw on October 19, 2012, 12:54:48 pm: Francois Wim, Scott, rambler, Mike, Jeremy & James...thanks for feedback, i thought this was a rework but actually the image hasnt been posted before...this was the image i choose initially from this set ...

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7005/6661481163_6c17111210_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/skwalby/6661481163/)
Devon Coastal Sunset (http://www.flickr.com/photos/skwalby/6661481163/) by Shaunwalby Photography (http://www.flickr.com/people/skwalby/), on Flickr

i prefer the landscape version.
Title: Re: Sundowner Devon Coast
Post by: Wim van Velzen on October 19, 2012, 02:30:35 pm: The foreground version is a nice composition too. Like the colours and mood of the first one though.
Title: Re: Sundowner Devon Coast
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on October 19, 2012, 02:40:44 pm: Quote from: shaunw on October 19, 2012, 12:54:48 pm
i prefer the landscape version.

So do I.

Jeremy