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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Christoph C. Feldhaim on February 21, 2014, 06:18:07 am

Title: Splash No.3
Post by: Christoph C. Feldhaim on February 21, 2014, 06:18:07 am

The last shot in the "Splash" series of three images from the Mallorcan Mediterranean.
I'll explore this more, but I'll have to visit the seaside again - Baltics or Northern Sea this will be.
Cheers
~Chris

Splash No.3 (http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2850/12673480455_b15d089e71_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/feldhaim/12673480455/)

Title: Re: Splash No.3
Post by: Tony Jay on February 21, 2014, 06:22:46 am

Wonderfully dynamic image combined with the discriminating effect of light and shadow.

Tony Jay

Title: Re: Splash No.3
Post by: francois on February 21, 2014, 07:32:13 am

Beautifully done… Everything is in this photo, high dynamic, movement… a real feast for the eyes.

Title: Re: Splash No.3
Post by: BobDavid on February 21, 2014, 10:30:30 am

Excellent!

Title: Re: Splash No.3
Post by: Christoph C. Feldhaim on February 21, 2014, 01:25:22 pm

Thanks for the nice words.
Actually I was very hesitant about this at first,
because it needed quite some tonal massage to work,
but finally liked it.
And now I really like it.
Cheers
~Chris

Title: Re: Splash No.3
Post by: sdwilsonsct on February 21, 2014, 02:16:28 pm

Still having difficulty with the brown water, Chris, here and in some of the earlier ones in this series. It is a great interpretation, but it seems unrealistic to me. For example, the splash just below the furthest horizon is brown, but the splash above is white, but they are both in the same light.
All comments, of course, are in the context that reality is subjective. 8^)

Title: Re: Splash No.3
Post by: Christoph C. Feldhaim on February 21, 2014, 04:11:57 pm

Quote from: sdwilsonsct on February 21, 2014, 02:16:28 pm

Still having difficulty with the brown water, Chris, here and in some of the earlier ones in this series. It is a great interpretation, but it seems unrealistic to me. For example, the splash just below the furthest horizon is brown, but the splash above is white, but they are both in the same light.
All comments, of course, are in the context that reality is subjective. 8^)

The water in the splash has the warm color of the early morning light being scattered be the drops.
The water in the sea is therefore more bluish than the splash.
Of course I have worked on tones and stuff and this is my subjective postprocessing,
but the basic principle applies and I do not colorcorrect for the light with a greycard or something.
I want the characteristics of the light I capture to be preserved more or less.
This leads to colored images and the objects in the images having different colors depending on the light.
I do not try to eliminate the color of the light - the opposite is the case.
Correction is only applied to prevent gross and ugly colorcasts which are totally over the top.
Of course it would be easy to correct the water to be more blueish or neutral.
But then the whole image would turn very very cold in the other parts and that is not desireable.

From an artistic point of view I created a contrast of opposing colors in the water between the splash and the sea.
This emphasizes the dynamic of the splash as it is coming out of the calmer sea, which is blueish.
The lighting situation supported the dynamic of the movement here by giving me these nicely opposing colors.

Cheers
~Chris