Posted by JL Morris on December 18, 2007
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Seascape
Wow! This is an image I will remember for a long, long time. Big Sur area shot yesterday. This photograph tells a story and brings up emotions. And that is what we ask of art.
Graphically you will see circles within circles. The most apparent is the sandbar in the center of the scene but more important is the outer circle extending from the distant horizon, then outside the frame and reentering too the very close foreground. The movement of the current has been captured with just the right shutter speed illustrating the semicircle flow of water around the sand bar. With perfect exposure this evocates the moment just before night, this is the quiet time.
The only very small item that I would like the photo-artist to consider is the small white rock in the foreground. Forget it. It is perfict as is.
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December 18th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
Awesome shot! Congratulations!
December 18th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Thanks for the feed back I think I will remove the white rock and see what it looks like. I submitted it for critique because I wasn’t sure if there was too much foreground with the main subject being the river. This was taken Sunday in the Big Sur area. I used a polarizer and am not sure but possibly stacked two filters on placed on the horizon and another soft grad to keep the sky from burning out.
December 24th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
It is truly a great picture. The foreground has a curved, but solid line of rocks and water. The water streaming through the gully adds extra characteristic. Two things really grabbed my attention.
1. The picture was taken with such good lighting and such a quick exposure that the individual ripples in the water are clearly visible.
2.
December 24th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
(Oops cut off last one too quick)
2. The mountain backdrop is so crisp and clean.
I did for a while wonder what the mass of tentacles on the right is, but it is otherwise a flawless picture.
Brilliant