I am posting this as a follow up to my last post, I personaly like this image better, how about you?

-- Tait Stangl (taits@usa.net), October 07, 1998

Answers

I agree, this one is better. Great exposure, good composition, and no horizon lines to worry about;)

Very nice image.

-- Joe Boyd (boydjw@traveller.com), October 07, 1998.

I like it better also. I'd crop off the light section at the top which pulls the eye out of the frame. Otherwise very nice.

-- Paul Lenson (lenson@pci.on.ca), October 07, 1998.

I like this one better, but feels like something is lacking for the image to be perfect. Do you have any others with a different arrangement of rocks?????

-- Daryl Hiebert (dhiebe@po-box.mcgill.ca), October 07, 1998.

I think I know what Paul Lenson means about the brighter area at the top of the scene, but I like the picture better with that part included. The top portion suggests the sea off in the distance which makes the rocks feel like they're near the shore with an infinite sea washing over them.

Or something like that...anyway, the picture works well for me as is.

-- Brent Hutto (BHutto@InfoAve.Net), October 07, 1998.

Brent,

Leaving the white can also work as you suggest but then I'd argue that you'd have to crop off the thin blue section above it. This thin blue band at the top, for me, frames and therefore ends the pciture. By removing it, you remove the framing and convey a sense of depth. Leaving the wider white band below it or cropping still further down to the wider blue band going through the top rock group works equally well IMO.

-- Paul Lenson (lenson@pci.on.ca), October 07, 1998.

Tait,

This one is much much better than your last. I shoot this type of thing as often as I get the chance ( I'll post one soon). I have a few suggestions. These rocks are great. Try the same concept with longer lenses and smaller or partial groupings. In particular the three rocks at the top. Also try to get the color in the seaweed to snap (try velvia)or go black and white. To get the time necessary for this I often use a 2 stop ND or even my polarizer and a ND. These abstracts are great fun, keep at it.....

Cheers my polarizer and a 2 stop ( if the light is to bright)

-- Bill (Bill.Wyman@utas.edu.au), October 07, 1998.

I like the picture much better, too. I think the brightness at the top works fine, it brings some gradient and perspective to the picture. I'm somewhat ambivalent about the vertical composition here, I think a horizontal image might be a bit more peaceful and flowing, but then again, you were probably constrained by the placement of the rocks (nice formation, by the way).

-- Andrew Y. Kim (andy_roo@mit.edu), October 07, 1998.

Ooh, Ahh... That's MUCH better. When I commented on your last post I said that it might be better as a B&W. I don't think the same is true for this iamge. There seem to be many subtile blues in the water that would be lost in a B&W. There also seem to be small specks of green on the rocks.

I think what I really like about this image is the constrast -- contrast between the lightly toned water and the darker rocks -- contrast between the soft, fluffy water and the hard, sharp rocks. Also, the composition is much better in this photo. You've zoomed-in on the true subject of the first photo, which I saw as the waves drifitng between the rocks. I now realize that the sand and the horizon were just a distraction in the first photo.

Good job -- it's keeper!

-- Joel Collins (jwc3@mindspring.com), October 09, 1998.

Very nice, this is the kind of shot that reminds me that keeping it simple can be better! Did you use a telephoto of some sort?

-- Kurt Warner (drw13@atl.mindspring.com), October 09, 1998.

Thanks for all the comments, this image was probably taken with astia, the chrome is much more saturated with greens and it looks fine, velvia might have added a nice touch though. I shot it with my 70-200 at the long end. As for the top light area of the frame on the chrome is not so noticeably light, it appears to be an effect of my scanning.

-- Tait Stangl (taits@usa.net), October 15, 1998.

Yes - much better! It's nice to see that you crop your images to something else than the standard 8x10 or whatever the paper manufacturers feed us! Couldn't be improved (though if I were to make a print I would try to dodge the top to darken it a bit - just to see what it looks like).

-- (andreas@physio.unr.edu), October 25, 1998.