Moving Water

[JonathanS]

I posted this in the Experimental area, but I think I need to move it here, and I may get a different response here

I was down at the beach and saw the tide coming up (ok, this was just a wave in the picture, but the tide was rising), thought 'hey that would be cool' and shot a bunch of pics. This is the best of the set. Comments would be appreciated:

Click on the image to make it bigger:

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a14/jonstickles/th_IMG_5304_M_filtered.jpg (http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a14/jonstickles/IMG_5304_M_filtered.jpg)

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F/32
ISO 100

[Radtech1]

The water looks great. More like steam than anything, very ethereal. The composition strikes me as lacking, however. If it were mine I would crop out that huge expanse of out of focus foreground.

Rad

[JonathanS]

Thanks, I did do that in another copy on my computer, but posted the non-cropped version here. Thought it would be better for critique. And compostion was a bit difficult as I had to set the tripod up across several differnt heights and angles of those rocks, at one point one of the legs slipped and nearly sent the camera into the ground (I caught it, and then put the strap on for the rest of the time)

[JonathanS]

Further messing around on my part gives this, in my opinion it tured out better in B/W:

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a14/jonstickles/th_IMG_5304_M_filtered_2D_BW.jpg (http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a14/jonstickles/IMG_5304_M_filtered_2D_BW.jpg)

[Radtech1]

Stick with the color. Those colors are wonderful. Might as well take advantage of them.

Rad

[JonathanS]

thank you

[Big_B]

I'm with radtech. The technicals are great but, for me, it lacks a point of interest