Loggerhead Sea Turtle baby entering foam. He is still draging his umbilical from the egg sack. Juan Ponce DeLeon Park, Brevard County, Florida, Canon Eos1D Mark III, 24-105 @105mm, F4.5 , 1/60 sec, Iso 800
Loggerhead Sea Turtle baby entering foam. He is still draging his umbilical from the egg sack. Juan Ponce DeLeon Park, Brevard County, Florida, Canon Eos1D Mark III, 24-105 @105mm, F4.5 , 1/60 sec, Iso 800
I like the foam on the left side. If you stare at it long enough, it looks as if it is slowly moving across the screen. Excellent capture. The sand is fairly visible and sharp. I do not mind you cannot see the whole turtle. This would be a nice image for a series to be placed side by side with a hatch-ling close up to give a viewer a sense of birth to freedom. Well done.
Well, I feel we're getting to the heart of this site - critique and comparison. I respectfully disagree with Robert's (and others) critique of your "Foam At Last" post. I'm from Mass. and have never seen a baby Larger in the field. Saw some in a plastic box somewhere on the Florida coast long, long ago. Yet, I knew what I was looking at when I first saw the thumbnail. I think you were kinda conned into submitting this image in hope of having a recognizable subject. To me the sand and foam are too dominant in this image (this would be true even if the turtle wasn't snapped a moment too late to tell what it is, but for its trail of tracks). As small as the little protagonist is, in "Foam At Last" neither the foam nor sand formed other than a subtle environment for the challenge. I remember seeing my box of babies at a place with the remnants of a light house. I'll bet they'd love a 30 x 60 on one of their walls. Anyway that's my take.
This works for me but would take it at an angle Would like seeing a diagonal trail
Understand what Stephen is trying to explain and makes sense. His vision is valid and good for another image I find room for both !!!!
With the closer view and better definition in the tracks Layton, I feel this one is much more successful then the previous post in telling the story. Nice work.
Hi Layton, I like your shot, but in agreement with Stephen and Alfred, I believe that your shot may be most powerful without any turtle in sight! Everyone knows these tracks and as in horror movies, not showing but only suggesting can be more powerful. To show you what I mean, I manipulated the image, cloned some foam over the turtle and extended the track to the right by copying part of your image, lining it up and adjusting the brightness. I'm not a big fan of such big interventions, so I encourage you to try and nail this shot straight out of the camera! While you are at it, use a faster shutter speed, I don't like the motion blur of the foam. But then again, it might be a boring image without the suggestion of movement.
By the way, I'm really jealous that you live in a place where these creatures roam about! I probably would never leave the beach!
- Jerry -
I've loved your baby sea turtle shots, Layton. The tracks here are great! I actually do think Jerry's version is quite effective, though, as I cannot tell what that is going into the water (might be my monitor.) Would love to see these!
Thank You
I love the remake.