Another picture from this summer vacation. This one is at Sand Beach in Acadia national park in Maine. What a beautiful place! Again mid-day and I tried the wide angle lens with which I am not very familiar. I did try to position foreground elements and I chose a fast shutter speed fin order to make sure to freeze the water movement. The impact on depth of field seems to be ok. Please comment, I need to improve my skills. (note: there is no clipping in the raw file)
Nikon D70s
Tokina 11-16 DX @14mm
1/500
f/7.1
ISO 200
neutral grad filter
EXP looks fine and the scene is loverly even at midday. For me it needed to be a bit wider all around with the main foreground rock and the big cloud cut by the frame edges...
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Rene, man, this is another place to add to the must see list. Exp, and colors look good. Suggestion, i think you could get closer to the your forefront anchor subject( bigger rock), and really highlight it; perhaps a bit more angle up towards the cloud. It would really bump up your image, and for the record, when i first tried the 10-22mm canon, my image looked like yours,try highlighting your forefront stronger positional -wise. Finally, if you want to blurr the water and create some silk look, the vari-polarizer circular filter from singh ray is allows you to stop down a few stops even in bright light...
TFS
Don
Last edited by Don Hamilton Jr.; 10-20-2010 at 05:55 AM.
Hi Rene, pleasing scene with the brighter light handled well. Agree with Art regarding opening up the comp and giving more room on the bottom and top for reasons stated above. I might take out the very small rock on the bottom edge.
I agree that a wider view was needed here. The rock in the FG that is clipped. I feel I would have placed that in the center of the lower FG and perhaps rotated camera left to create a nice triangle shape from the FG rocks. It looks like it might work but hard to tell for sure. A agree that clipping the FG rocks and the large cloud up top are non-no's. I have been right there and know how beautiful it is.
Hey Rene,
Light covered as was the wider view and I agree with both suggestions. I do think when you get another oppportunity you should try to get more seperation between the rocks and even a bit more isolation. that way the focus will still be the wonderful water.....but the added FG interest will take it up a notch compositionally. Don gave you a VG idea with the lens so try exploring that next time out.
Thank you all for your kind remarks. Visualizing a picture with such a wide lens is a piece of work.
Here is a version (PS modified) with more space around. I got your point: foreward elements should not touch the frame!
Rene,
Much better without the tangents (just touching) of the rock and the cloud with the image edges. Good beachy feel, water, sand and wavelets are well done. A calm summer day.
Much, much better. We are glad that you got the point. And the same goes for the upper edge. Cutting off the cloud when you had it was just a big a sin :)
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