Oolitic Sand at White Rock Bay

mstrozewski

Spent some time wandering around White Rock Bay @ Antelope Island, GSL, Utah, today. The water has receded a bunch, so what's left is pockets of water. This pocket of water was green, compared to the clear water around it. It seemed that the deeper the pockets were the more minerals trapped in it, that caused the water to turn colors.

Anyway, the color version just seemed to busy. And the black & white keeps the details but is more dramatic.

Or it could be the glass of wine talking to me...What do you guys think?

byoshi

I like the comp, and the depth of the shot. But your description of the water color makes me want to see the color version as well.

JC

byoshi wrote: »

I like the comp, and the depth of the shot. But your description of the water color makes me want to see the color version as well.

me two! It's a nice job, it's just missing a little 'something' to make it great.

The black and white conversion seems a little flat, in the foreground at least. How did you do the conversion? I wonder if you want to convert/stretch the foreground differently from the hills and sky?

You know what would have made this a completely awesome photo? if the water in the big puddle was clear enough that could have backed up a few feet to get the cloud reflections in the big puddle too.

Oso

I like it -- I'd really like to see it larger; computer screens never do the verticals justice. Actually, looks like you caught some cloud reflections in the water behind the big puddle in the foreground (which btw looks like a dinosaur footprint or something).

Would also be interesting to see the color version.

Steve
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mstrozewski

kolibri wrote: »

me two! It's a nice job, it's just missing a little 'something' to make it great.

The black and white conversion seems a little flat, in the foreground at least. How did you do the conversion? I wonder if you want to convert/stretch the foreground differently from the hills and sky?

You know what would have made this a completely awesome photo? if the water in the big puddle was clear enough that could have backed up a few feet to get the cloud reflections in the big puddle too.

The conversion was done in Nik Silver Efex.

Here's the color version so you can see why there's no reflection in the puddle.

Cornflake

I think the color version is better here. The puddle isn't much in black and white but it's distinctive in color. Good composition.

mstrozewski

Thanks.

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Stumblebum

I like the idea because a while back I had similar idea (not as good but similar):

http://stumblebum.smugmug.com/Landscapes/Southwestwinter2011/i-ck5X5Jq/A

However, I thought the b&w would be a runaway winner because it appears to be much vibrant and lively to me. JMO.

kdog

Very interesting shot, M. I see what you were going for with the B&W. It allows one to focus on the textures without the distraction of the vibrant colors in the color version. Both versions work well for this reason. I had to google oolitic and learned something. Great post!