43 -Curves at the beach! My first Post.

DewDrop

Have been reading your forum with interest for a few weeks now.
Any comments on these?
The first two taken at the Seaside beach in Portland.









This is taken at a kiddie swimming pool.

Lord Vetinari

All good shots but love that first one.

Brian V.

adrian_k

Welcome.

first one's best, the other two are just 'wavy' rather than 'curvy'.
Although in my opion number one's depth of field is too shallow. Still a good shot.
I love the way sand dunes are fractal like - this could almost be taken from a plane - you have little sense of scale.

DewDrop wrote:

Have been reading your forum with interest for a few weeks now.
Any comments on these?
The first two taken at the Seaside beach in Portland.




This is taken at a kiddie swimming pool.

snapapple

Yep, I agree with #1 as my choice. It's the best curve. If you cloned out the cigarette butt right in the front it would look like the Sahara desert.
Nice one. Oh, did I say, "Welcome"? Welcome! Glad to have you aboard.:):

wholenewlight

#1 is a very neat shot. I'm not sure I know the difference between curves, waves, circles, etc. I just know I like your #1 best.

And I agree with a previous poster that the removal of the cig butt would make it a better shot.

Welcome - nice pics.

Blue Snapshots

Can't offer anything other than what has been said
As with the others.... really like #1.

So.. I'll just say hello. Welcome!!!

wholenewlight

question: The sand looks very coarse - is it as course as it looks or an "effect" of the shot?? Idle curiosity . . .

DewDrop

Thank you

wholenewlight wrote:

question: The sand looks very coarse - is it as course as it looks or an "effect" of the shot?? Idle curiosity . . .

Thanks for the warm welcome.:D

Cloning out the cigarette is a good idea. May be even crop the pic a
bit at the bottom? I would have liked a little increase in the depth of
field myself.

wholenewlight, I think the sand looks coarse partly because it is
a macro shot and partly because I chose to increase the contrast to
darken the shadow.

snapapple

DewDrop wrote:

Thanks for the warm welcome.:D

Cloning out the cigarette is a good idea. May be even crop the pic a
bit at the bottom? I would have liked a little increase in the depth of
field myself.

wholenewlight, I think the sand looks coarse partly because it is
a macro shot and partly because I chose to increase the contrast to
darken the shadow.

Yes, crop some off the bottom. That would bring the focal point down from the center and bring that nice curvy line toward the bottom right corner making the composition stronger.