A black and white rendition of a waves entering the bay from the Southern Ocean.
Edit:
I have managed to download the picture with a very few minor changes to this position, as requested.
I have flattened the black and added a couple of small areas of foam. I tried to add a significant amount of foam to the crest of the wave but could not get it to look natural.
I like the creativity but the execution isn't there for me. The entire ocean lost it's texture.
Yes, I feel the same. There is form but no shape. the power has gone.
I was hoping for suggestions to improve it whilst keeping the basic idea.
The concept and composition are good, Arthur. I think the image may well have potential to be developed.
As posted much of the image is maximum black, which rarely looks pleasing in large expanses, except in dramatic stark silhouettes of simple forms. If your original file has more shadow detail, I think a satisfying rendering is possible. Possibly all the more so if you convert from RGB and experiment with levels of these (although it's likely the blue channel has all the info). If your original file has lots of max black, you can't do much.
It it were an original file looking like this, I'd lighten the shadows before doing anything else in the first instance, before doing any other tonal or contrast adjustments. Sometimes I'll backtrack and find a better way, but usually seem to leave some shadow-lightening in, whatever else I've done by the end.
Thanks.
I shall try all these suggestions and get back to you if there are any improvements.
If you have any luck, Arthur, let us know.
In case you don't know, as the original poster, you can edit the post's text, and can add images under the original. If you put it there, rather than here in the comments column, people can toggle between images and compare directly.
Good luck! Hope you can get somewhere, and show us your results.
thanks, I did not know that it was that easy to edit posts. I shall try to improve the picture.
I managed a minimal improvement, but anything more than that decreased the effect of implying the power of the wave despite giving the smallest amount of information. There are many beautiful pictures of waves showing the power in its full glory, but I cannot compete with those using my miniscule skill so I must try to use the opposite methods.
Thank you for the help.
Not worth showing us? We all learn from each other.
I am trying to figure out how to post the image as an edit.
Click on the banner at the top of this page, Arthur, and since you posted in this Group, you will find a heading My Posts on the left, and then if you click on this post, as its author, clicking on the three dots at top right, will give you an option to Edit.
Once you've done that, I think it looks like it did when you were posting. You can then edit the text, and add photos, or even delete and replace the original, but I'd hope that here you'd add the edit so we can see the evolution. I for one find this process fascinating, especially seeing how someone else sees, so to speak.
There is another step that needs to be done. After loading the post there is an icon of three dots near the top right hand side that needs to be clicked - that shows a menu with "edit" in it. I shall do that when I get to the computer with my photographs.
Thanks.
Arthur, I think this is a cool composition. What I would add to this conversation is that all I think you need is more wave foam. Ie, more contrast. Do you have other captures with more action?
Thanks for the interest. I agree about more foam, but the picture was the best that I had between too little foam and very much too much foam. Please see the pictures that I posted earlier showing waves in Victoria Bay in their full state of violence.
I tried to Photoshop a more generous dose of foam, but that looked false for some reason.
I expect that there will be storm waves at various times during the next few months as waves generated in Southern Ocean storms hit our coast ( obviously of significance only at times that I can get there). Since this technique of high contrast monochrome is interesting I shall probably post more pictures with a similar look.