Took a quick trip out to the coast yesterday, hoping for some dramatic skies as storms roll in. I was a little too ahead of the weather but found some nice abstracts to shoot on the coast instead. Waves rolling in over these large round rocks and boulders made for an interesting ling exposure. As usual, wish I'd focused on this type of shooting instead and grabbed a few more compositions. Processed in Luminar 2018.
I really like how the perspective of the image is almost lost in the top half of the frame. To my eye it almost looks like a tsunami rising towards the camera, though I assume the level of the water is relatively flat.
This is exactly what I liked about this shot as well. You can really see the next wave building even as the foam from the last wave is still draining away.
This was shot from a tall cliff about 20-30' above the shore at full zoom and at a steep angle down. I did that to get the sky out of the frame but also so we could see into the spaces between the rocks more. Its also emphasizing the appearance f the waves as they roll in.
lol just saw this on instagram.. really like the movement of the water the color looks a bit green on my screen but a minor detail the milky consistency on the foreground rocks makes for nice contrast its a nice intimate shot
ha, yeah I usually put out images I like to all my services at once. This version uses split toning with a deep blue for shadows and a yellow/green for highlights (very little though). So that may be coming through more on your screen depending on calibration.
i have an uncalibrated MacBook greens on my screen are very aggressive i think i should get it checked out
Really fascinating image, held my view for a long time. The motion in the top half is just excellent.
Great image, David! You seem to have given us all a chance to see this amazing scene through your eyes. Xander puts it well. Your best image, for me.
I do find the split toning a bit much; I append an edit where I've reversed with the highlight split tone to a degree. However, I recall doing similar images and finding the water can be emerald-green, whereas my edit makes it all bluish, including the rocks. You were there, so you know how it looked, but the brightest highlights not being white just doesn't quite look right to me.
Thanks Chris. I have an edit in more natural colors, but I wanted to emphasize the mood of the day. The split toned image to me is more inline with how the scene "felt" if not exactly how it looked. Although I always start an edit by trying to balance the colors back to natural as much as possible, I don't often want to keep it there, especially with more abstract images like this. I may try a few other versions incl BW.
Fair point, David. It's your vision, your visualisation & your image, after all. And people connect with it as you've made it. How the scene "felt" is probably what gave you the inspiration in the first place. Technical accuracy or perfection of itself will not make art. Keep posting images!
Here's a version with the yellow highlight tone removed, only the bleu shadow tone remains. I think sometime you have to live with one version of an image before you ultimately find you prefer another. I didn't like the pure white highlights before, but now I do.