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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: pegelli on September 30, 2010, 04:51:31 pm

Title: Belgian coast
Post by: pegelli on September 30, 2010, 04:51:31 pm

Wanted to show the beauty of the Belgian coast under typical North West Europe fall weather:

(http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201009/PEGA7001209120100910/1004228088_fFoGt-O.jpg) (http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201009/13697600_3rVyb#1004228088_fFoGt-A-LB)

Comments welcome

Title: Re: Belgian coast
Post by: tokengirl on September 30, 2010, 05:41:08 pm

Love it.  Love the sky, love the composition.

This would be stunning in B&W, by the way.

Title: Re: Belgian coast
Post by: Chairman Bill on September 30, 2010, 06:21:59 pm

Yes, definitely one for a monochrome conversion

Title: Re: Belgian coast
Post by: John R on September 30, 2010, 09:15:26 pm

Wonderful light and composition that draws you in. I like the nuances of greys, blues and whites, interspersed with with the green and brown. It may look good in BW, but I don't see a BW version bringing forth what what I see in colour.

JMR

Title: Re: Belgian coast
Post by: francois on September 30, 2010, 10:30:36 pm

Lovely! No need to say more.

Title: Re: Belgian coast
Post by: Bruce Cox on October 01, 2010, 05:55:25 pm

     Though the coast is beautiful and fully articulated both near and far, the central vanishing point on the horizon is made a powerful singularity.  For me, this infinitely far and isolated point is something other than beautiful and competes for the meaning of the photo.  Bruce Cox

Title: Re: Belgian coast
Post by: BernardLanguillier on October 01, 2010, 06:40:22 pm

Nice, bring back nice memories. :)

It is interesting to see that you decided to use as foreground the part of the wave breaker that has little moss on it. It could also have been interesting to get closer to the moss covered area to increase a bit the part of the image with vivid colors.

Cheers,
Bernard

Title: Re: Belgian coast
Post by: pegelli on October 04, 2010, 07:00:57 am

Thanks for all the comments, they're very good to make me laak at it with different eyes.

@ Tokengirl & Cahirman Bill: I'll try B&W but usually when I take a picture I know whether I want colour or B&W, and this one said "colour" to me when I set it up, so didn't think anymore about that alternative when doing the PP.

@Bruce Cox: thanks for that interpretation, didn't look at ith that way but it is true, and accentuated by the extreme WA perpective.

@ BernardLanguillier: Glad to give you some taste from the past, but if I could, I would swap it for your typical landscapes in a NY second  ;)  Never thought much about the moss, I wanted the pier as long as possible, so moved as far back as I could, but it is a good observation and another reminder to keep exploring all scenes from different positions and not being satisfied too soon.

Title: Re: Belgian coast
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on October 04, 2010, 09:25:29 am

Pieter,

I won't try to compare it with Bernard's, but it is one of the best landscapes I've seen here in a while. Very nice.

Eric