Evening Walk On The Beach

ginger_55

I do not know if this belongs here or in "people". I went to take a photo of the moon rise. I never saw the moon, but I did get a couple of photos I do like, this being the one I like most. The air was laiden with water, I did not think I was getting a clear shot, deleted most of these, am glad I kept a few.

ginger

lynnma

ginger_55 wrote:

I do not know if this belongs here or in "people". I went to take a photo of the moon rise. I never saw the moon, but I did get a couple of photos I do like, this being the one I like most. The air was laiden with water, I did not think I was getting a clear shot, deleted most of these, am glad I kept a few.

ginger

thats nice ginger.. verysoft and tropical..nice mix of many things.

rutt

Beautiful shot, but it looks like you visited the same framer that the madame of the cathouse uses. And got sold the blue plate special.

-- Chief Purist

Annabella

ginger_55 wrote:

I do not know if this belongs here or in "people". I went to take a photo of the moon rise. I never saw the moon, but I did get a couple of photos I do like, this being the one I like most. The air was laiden with water, I did not think I was getting a clear shot, deleted most of these, am glad I kept a few.

ginger

This has a beautiful atmosphere to it, sort of impressionistic, I love it! I am in shock that you deleted most of them. I also am glad you kept a few.

ginger_55

rutt wrote:

Beautiful shot, but it looks like you visited the same framer that the madame of the cathouse uses. And got sold the blue plate special.

-- Chief Purist

Hey, Rutt, it took me hours to do that. By the time I was through, my cable company had shut down for the night, and I couldn't post it til this AM.

I have it without any frame, with just a line to post it with, or like this. I had no idea you were going to visit. If I had known, I would have left the frame off just for you, smile. I mean I would have left the naked one posted. I actually put it in the first time I posted, along with the framed shot, but the unframed one seemed to put the emphasis more on a people photo, since I have no means to move it to people, I "cut" that one and left just the framed one.

I have thought about trying to do the same photo in lab. I did use the black channel of CMYK, a tad, and it made a big help of cutting through the haze.

David did a good job on ch 3. They are selling that book at Barnes and Noble here in town, LAB, 20% off. I looked at that ch 2 you said not to panic over and I immediately hyperventalated. David made ch 3 sound so simple compared.

ginger (thanks for stopping..............) Frame courtesy of Kelby, of course.
Surgery, that minor skin thing, not supposed to take my pills or consume this AM, for PM surgery, so I have had coffee and a tranquilizer, so far. So mad at that hospital. Messing up my day big time. I am too nervous to concentrate on LAB curves to redo this right now. (Am dehydrated, too, but no water allowed...................)

auraflora

Hi Ginger..


This photo has wonderful atmosphere to it.
A very laid back feel to it.

Michal

USAIR

Wow awesome photo
Perfect exposure great color
And just a great feel to the shot

Thanks
Fred

PatandRich

Beatiful. It should be put on canvas to me it captures the soul of an impressionist painting

Exelent work

Rich

erich6

Ginger,

I like the mood you captured with this shot. Nice composition too. It looks a bit blury to me though. You may want to try a bit of Gaussian overlay...I think it will lend itself to this type of shot. I know some folks just don't like that style so maybe it won't work for you. Just some thoughts!

Erich

ginger_55

erich6 wrote:

Ginger,

I like the mood you captured with this shot. Nice composition too. It looks a bit blury to me though. You may want to try a bit of Gaussian overlay...I think it will lend itself to this type of shot. I know some folks just don't like that style so maybe it won't work for you. Just some thoughts!

Erich

Thanks, Erich. Yes, I had a G Blur period, wish I hadn't. I am one who really does not like it much at all anymore, and all my photos of Charleston were done with it. I don't want to do them over, I don't even want to retake them, but I hate seeing that blur on them.

It is interesting about that photo, as I said, I tossed most of the photos of her. I had just walked to the beach to wait for the moon to come up. There was so much moisture in the air with clouds forming, not even a good sunset, most things were an exercise in futility.

I saw that lone woman walk up from further down the beach, looking like that. Just fascinated me. She was there long enough for me to get off some shots, I mean about 5 minutes or so, maybe more. I was using my 400, but that is close to full frame, just moved her from center, that is all. I cannot believe she did not know she was being photographed. We were the only two on that part of the beach. Totally unrecognizable, she looks like a movie star to me. And she could have been considering where she was. She stayed, posed for awhile, then calmly walked back from whence she had come.

Anyway, I decided to work one up, I remembered yesterday what was unusual in the workup. People have mentioned the impressionistic feeling the photo has. I worked it up normally, it was more in focus than I thought, in fact the focus is fine. I saved it, then went to filters, stylize, find edges, clicked on that, then put that in multiply mode (a Ben Wilmore trick I try sometimes). Multiply darkens and I did not want to darken, but in this case it did not darken as much as it seemed to perform that impressionistic magic. I usually just leave it at about 10%, this time I only took it down to about 50% and stopped. I had this magical impressionistic feel on the photo. I decided to leave it.

Maybe I will end up hating this, too, as I do G Blur. But I think I will like this photo. I love the dunes like that and I love her pose. I also like how I put her on the left side of the photo rather than the more obvious right side.

I just thought I would share some of my thoughts on this photo here with those who still might read this. That "find edges" it sometimes works, but it has never been magic before.

ginger

gubbs

Ginger, I think the picture deserves more space and less frame Lovely Shot

ginger_55

gubbs wrote:

Ginger, I think the picture deserves more space and less frame Lovely Shot

In a heartbeat, Gubbs. I always make them all, or usually.
If you want it without the line I have that, too.






I can't do much more with the frame, though, don't have the golden angels, yet.

Maybe it is the size of my monitor, I think I see them differently than some of you all. Are they this big on FM? They just overpower me at this size. I can't see the "forest for the trees", as the saying goes. In this photo, I think the forest is more important than the trees. What say you all?

Smile, thanks,

ginger

erich6

ginger_55 wrote:

Thanks, Erich. Yes, I had a G Blur period, wish I hadn't. I am one who really does not like it much at all anymore, and all my photos of Charleston were done with it. I don't want to do them over, I don't even want to retake them, but I hate seeing that blur on them.

It is interesting about that photo, as I said, I tossed most of the photos of her. I had just walked to the beach to wait for the moon to come up. There was so much moisture in the air with clouds forming, not even a good sunset, most things were an exercise in futility.

I saw that lone woman walk up from further down the beach, looking like that. Just fascinated me. She was there long enough for me to get off some shots, I mean about 5 minutes or so, maybe more. I was using my 400, but that is close to full frame, just moved her from center, that is all. I cannot believe she did not know she was being photographed. We were the only two on that part of the beach. Totally unrecognizable, she looks like a movie star to me. And she could have been considering where she was. She stayed, posed for awhile, then calmly walked back from whence she had come.

Anyway, I decided to work one up, I remembered yesterday what was unusual in the workup. People have mentioned the impressionistic feeling the photo has. I worked it up normally, it was more in focus than I thought, in fact the focus is fine. I saved it, then went to filters, stylize, find edges, clicked on that, then put that in multiply mode (a Ben Wilmore trick I try sometimes). Multiply darkens and I did not want to darken, but in this case it did not darken as much as it seemed to perform that impressionistic magic. I usually just leave it at about 10%, this time I only took it down to about 50% and stopped. I had this magical impressionistic feel on the photo. I decided to leave it.

Maybe I will end up hating this, too, as I do G Blur. But I think I will like this photo. I love the dunes like that and I love her pose. I also like how I put her on the left side of the photo rather than the more obvious right side.

I just thought I would share some of my thoughts on this photo here with those who still might read this. That "find edges" it sometimes works, but it has never been magic before.

ginger

I guess that's what they call "working with the light you captured". Amazing how certain photos just lend themselves to different treatments. I agree with you that the woman just looks right where she's at and not to the left.

Thanks for sharing how you got to this picture.

Erich

erich6

ginger_55 wrote:

Maybe it is the size of my monitor, I think I see them differently than some of you all. Are they this big on FM? They just overpower me at this size. I can't see the "forest for the trees", as the saying goes. In this photo, I think the forest is more important than the trees. What say you all?

Smile, thanks,

ginger

Yes. Monitor size plays a role for sure. When I get on my computer at home I have a 15" LCD with a 1024 x 768 display and the "large" version of smugmug pictures just look huge and often don't fit on the screen. On the other hand, my laptop's native resolution is 1400 x 1050 and the size is just right.

Erich