Bad Weather at NJ shore

[Dave Gurtcheff]

Bad weather on LBI....First; pouring rain and heavy fog, then flooding, then a spell of record breaking cold that froze the bay. Two Friday nights in a row we could not get out to go to the local watering hole for Happy Hour. This view is from our deck. GFX 100S 32-64mm lens at 32mm f8 ISO 800.
Dave in NJ

[Arlen]

I like this one a lot. Well seen and captured, Dave.

[Dave Gurtcheff]

Thank you Arlen.
Dave

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

That is a keeper!

Beautiful and elegant.

[Paulo Bizarro]

Excellent.

[francois]

Incredible shot, bravo!

[PeterAit]

Bad weather on LBI....First; pouring rain and heavy fog, then flooding, then a spell of record breaking cold that froze the bay. Two Friday nights in a row we could not get out to go to the local watering hole for Happy Hour. This view is from our deck. GFX 100S 32-64mm lens at 32mm f8 ISO 800.
Dave in NJ

Excellent, particularly the rain!!

[Dave (Isle of Skye)]

Very unusual and very nice.

It almost doesn't look real.

Dave

[David Eckels]

It almost doesn't look real.

Glad you said that Dave.
If it is real, it is a phenomenal shot.
If it is a composite (nothing wrong with that), it'd be nice to know.

[Dave (Isle of Skye)]

Glad you said that Dave.
If it is real, it is a phenomenal shot.
If it is a composite (nothing wrong with that), it'd be nice to know.

I agree Dave. Because as soon as I saw it, I thought mmm, that looks to me, like one of those "Single click Art FX" plug-ins has been applied to it. Which, as you say Dave (that's Dave Eckels), is all well and good and nothing wrong with that, I mean we all love a plug-in or two don't we? But I do think it would be nice to know given how this particular image looks so amazingly artistic, yet at the same time, somewhat unreal. So please tell us Dave (that's Dave Gurtcheff) have you 'Fortified' the shot with one of those instant "Art" type of plug-in or no?

And why if it is snowing so heavily, is there not a flake of snow on the ground, or the pier, or anywhere else in the shot, other than the air in front of the camera, but yet the sun is still shining strongly with a golden light on the wings of the gull?

Don't get me wrong Dave (that's Dave Gurtcheff), I still really like the shot. But you have to admit, it does looks more like a poster graphic than a photograph.

Dave (that's Dave Hickey)

[francois]

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It almost doesn't look real.
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I'm also unsure about this. David says it perfectly!

[Dave Gurtcheff]

I have not visited here lately, I am not avoiding the question. Image was taken from our deck on a very foggy day, sun trying to break through. Made with medium format GFX 100S and 32-64mm lens. Gull and rain added PP. I always burned, dodged and double printed in my darkroom for many years and do the same with digital. The edges and corners were "burned in" on this image (gradient tool). I have a collection of gulls in flight that I sometimes add to my images. I am 86 years old next month and too set in my ways to change. Thank you all for the kind and polite comments. Not trying to pull a fast one here, but just "trying to make art". Before I went to 12 years of night school to earn my BS and MS Engineering degrees, I had a tuition and fees scholarship to the Tyler school of Fine Art at Temple University. When we set up our easels and painted the instructor never said "your painting does not look like the reality of the subject", they critiqued the final result, which sometimes was the artist's creation that did not represent reality.
Again, thank you for the polite and helpful comments. 
Dave in NJ
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www.modernpictorials.com