Jamesy Jamesy Jamesy. Your hard work and dedication really pays off, this is such an amazing shot. I had to laugh at the guys negative comment above. Hehehe, daft dafty...if there is one person who knows EXACTLY what he is doing...it is the jamesmeister.
im sorry but this photo really doesnt do it for me. the composition is bad and it looks like youve got too much salt or spray on your lens as the pics got that hazy look. the big shape of white foam in the foreground is distracting and the sun flare is ugly. i really like the colours though. grab some filters, check your composition and youl be there!
don't mean to be negative, but i just checked "your" photos and they are no where near this. boring sunset shot, every horizon not level. nothing special. maybe you should have better work before you start criticizing.
ahhh well yeah i havnt put any stuff on here for a while and your right those shots are aweful. xl_photography is my actual msw account check that out its a litte more recent. and check out my flickr if ya want. www.flickr.com/photos/josh_exell im just voicing an opinion and having spent a couple of years doing seascapes etc. now i was offering a few tips i would expect the same. praise is all good but constructive criticism is how we learn.
i also wish that, might shift a few more prints then.....! Just to have it perfectly sillhoetted against the suns rays and jumping out of the water. Yep that would work haha.
Cheers for the props people. Just to clarify, you can't do this in one shot for several reasons, i will elaborate but it might bore some people, just a friendly heads up! One is the little red flecks of light in the middle of the shot in line with the sun.... they only exist in the photo that was shot 2 stops underexposed, as the camera then saw the water as a dark tone and thus captured the suns rays refrating inside the water, as appose the obviously reflected light which appears on the whiter sections of water in line with the sun (which are from the 2 stops overexposed shot). An HDR image would look good but it would give you a different effect than this shot which is actually real in terms of the colours. Im stoked that people dig it tho- thanks!
I just wanted to say that this shot was, of course, extensively photoshopped, but was made simply by merging together the elements i wanted in the end product from three consecutive 0 +2 -2 bracketed shots using a polariser and a 1 stop grad filter, so everything in the shots is real in terms of the actual scene, but ive merely selected my favourite bits from the three shots.... It took 5 trips over 6 days to the spot to get the shot. Hopefully this will help some people enjoy the pic more....?!?
People harp on about photoshop but the truth is that even old film processing was manipulated through filters and various other dark room techniques, not to mention the optical porky pies lenses tell in terms of perspective, distance and distortion.
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