Actually not. It was just after sunset and definitely not the time for contrast. Anyway, backwash always has a beauty of it's own. It's so much in it...
Harald
Harald,
I had imagined you wanted contrast and had underexposed (as you claim) in order to get it - for my part, I see no underexposure at all. Had you actually exposed any more, you’d have lost a lot more in the cloud and sea highlights than you have. Insofar as Velviaesque: anything but! Velvia would probably have turned your water black if you’d tried to hold onto the foam! If anything, in your image I see old C-Types from way back; they had that softness and warmth more often than not, with subjects like that. I hasten to add; you could also print them pretty contrasty too, if you so required. Of course, with digi, it all depends on how you processed your image: there might be bags of detail in them thar highlights on the original file – no way for me to tell.
Anyway, those clouds are the draw for me: saw so many of that type in so many calendars shot further south in Caribbean waters… got some similar clouds in the Bahamas for myself, but they didn’t combine with the better model shots, so they didn’t develop legs. Key West had one good thing going for it: the colour of the sea. Apart from that, it had the worst humidity we ever encountered next to Singapore. In Key West my wife simply fell to the ground – literally knocked out by the heat and humidity. Scared the hell out of me. In Singapore, it was the turn of the model, who was up on a rock. I just happened to be very close and more or less caught her as she passed out.
Wake. Yes, it becomes hypnotic; you could just as easily leap right on in and imagine yourself walking on snow. Except unless you got lucky, you’d as likely be mince. That was the nice part of having friends with boats: it was their money turning into roars and foam. But I suppose when it doesn’t mean much, then you can do it without thinking about it. Like myself taking the Fiesta down to the shops, I guess.
;-)
Ciao –
Rob C
