Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Paulo Bizarro on August 12, 2015, 03:50:49 am
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This beach is located in SW Portugal, and is very popular during the summer. I have been going here since 1976, and it is a region I love. Especially in August, is a popular vacation place. I have a small house about 1.5 km inland, so I am fortunate to be able to make weekend trips, or longer, during the year.
The weather has been a bit overcast this month, with clouds, some haze and fog, making for interesting images. So last Saturday I got up really early, and went out to photograph this beach in low tide. It is the only time of the day when there is no one around:)
#1 taken with Sony 55 f1.8, others with Nikon 20 f1.8. All in the A7.
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Two & four stand out for me, but all are well done
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Two & four stand out for me, but all are well done
+1.
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Hello Paulo, Should you find the time at some point, I hope you might entertain the idea, in reference to image 9_8_15_3, of lifting/opening the shadows of the rock formations on the left. There you will find a wonderful interplay between their striations and the sky, following around to similar mirrors in the water reflections. Hoping it is a raw file.
One other, 9_8_15_3 really comes into its own when removing about 7/8ths of the sky and similarly gently lifting/opening the shadows...it becomes almost calligraphic/sumi painting.
Lumine.
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Thanks for the feedback.
Patricia - thanks for the suggestions, I will for sure try them out. I thought of opening up the shadows on the rocks, but in the end, I liked them darker better. These are really black rocks (Palaeozoic black shales), so if you open the shadows a bit, they look unnatural.
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Paulo,
I have just emailed to you a small file/rough edit
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Two & four stand out for me, but all are well done
+1
Thierry
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Paulo,
I have just emailed to you a small file/rough edit
Patricia,
thanks. I made some of your suggestions, here is the result.
Rgds
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Yes, 2 and 4 are great!
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Beautiful images, all. But #2 stands out for me.
Not far from Portimão, I see, which is where my aunt was born.
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4 for me. The crop is nice but I think the uncropped sky adds a lot.
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This is what I value here, all this learning and exchange of different ways of seeing.
@Rajan - yes, not far, probably about 90 minutes drive along the coast. Unless if you stop at the several beautiful beaches along the coast:) Portimao is famous for its grilled sardines:)
P.S. I just saw that the "Landscape Photography Magazine" folks are having a "Long Exposure and Tilt and Shift Workshop" in July 2016, and they will be based in the village of Almograve. So this beach is getting famous:)
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They are all nice Paulo. I think I would pick #4 but if the rocks had a bit more light I think it would be #2. I'm viewing on my monitor at work and it tends to crush the shadows.
Chuck
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I have to maintain the near unanimity in picking #2 and #4 as standouts. Well done.
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IMHO #4 is by far the best image. Very well done. Would love to see the color version as well, for comparison.
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Beautiful captures! I really like the last one. It has a nice feel, tone to it.
Mark