On the Beach

rainbow

Richard

I love the sky and always like umbrellas (why is that ), but the subjects seem a little lost in all that space. Was that the idea? You might want to try cropping a bit of the foreground.

michswiss

Don't crop. No point. It's a good idea and learning experience, but I doubt that there's anything that can be done to improve this image. There's simply no separation of the people (I'm assuming they're the subject) and the clutter of the rock beach. I'm working a lot on this type of imagery at the moment, people set against a larger background. You really need to think through your position, composition and lighting in advance. It's tough.

Nyarthlopic

There are people in there? I'm mostly kidding, of course. (this coming from a person who can walk downtown where he lives, take 150 pictures and not get a single person). I love this as a landscape shot. I'd be interested to see what the color version looks like, especially with the sky. In the end, though, there is so much going on with the rocks in the foreground, the busy sky and the cityscape...I lose the people in the shot.

rainbow

Richard wrote: »

I love the sky and always like umbrellas (why is that ), but the subjects seem a little lost in all that space. Was that the idea? You might want to try cropping a bit of the foreground.

michswiss wrote: »

Don't crop. No point. It's a good idea and learning experience, but I doubt that there's anything that can be done to improve this image. There's simply no separation of the people (I'm assuming they're the subject) and the clutter of the rock beach. I'm working a lot on this type of imagery at the moment, people set against a larger background. You really need to think through your position, composition and lighting in advance. It's tough.

Nyarthlopic wrote: »

There are people in there? I'm mostly kidding, of course. (this coming from a person who can walk downtown where he lives, take 150 pictures and not get a single person). I love this as a landscape shot. I'd be interested to see what the color version looks like, especially with the sky. In the end, though, there is so much going on with the rocks in the foreground, the busy sky and the cityscape...I lose the people in the shot.

The people sitting there were what attracted me to take the shot, but having them stand out was not the point at all. This expanse of rocks was uncovered by the low tide and it was so out of place to come across these two (with the parasol, no less!) sitting there as their getaway. I immediately conjured up a "post apocalypse" imagery of people continuing on as if life were normal...

Here is a color rendition that I previously posted in a mini-challenge:



BTW, On the Beach is a novel set in Australia whereby the characters await their inevitable fate while the radiation clouds from the northern hemisphere nuclear holocaust approaches them.

bdcolen

I've taken some liberties here - and I think this works. I assume Rainbow's title is a reference not just to the two figures, but to the movie those of us of a certain age are unlikely ever to forget (It's one you whipper snappers should all grab on Netflicks or whatever. ), and therefore he wants the space and sense of emptiness. Anyway, I have done some cropping, which brings up the figures, as well as some burning of the rocks behind them and dodging of the area in front of them.

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