Day at the Beach

[Canyon Hiker]

I have had this one sitting around since last summer. I didn't think much of it in color so I tried B&W. What do you think?



Thanks again
Darin

[Injektilo*]

Nice contrast and subject.
My only criticism is it could have been framed a bit better, I would have liked to see less coastline and more sky at top.

[Jay C]

looks good, just a tad too soft for me though.

[Shebang]

good contrast (or is tonal range the way to say it? are those thing the same??), and I especially like the scale, interesting trees and rocks - buildings and cars don't do anything for me.

[SmartWombat]

I like the composition of this.
Exercise: join the heads of the standing people from left to right in the sea, up to the beach, and onto the clifftop.
It's a nice leading line across the image.

The sky is so flat boring that I don't want to see more of it.
Contrast that to the textures in the sea and the tide zone on the beach, there's just enough of that.
I like the building in the top left 1/3 echoing the building in the right 1/3.

[armando_m]

very pleasant , interesting composition & nice contrasts

where is this ? the trees are unusual to what I'm used to see at the beach

[daq7]

Nice. In this shot the blown sky really helps the picture because of the intense contrast with the gorgeous shape of the trees.

[readingr]

Is it just me but is this picture sloping down to the right?

Other than that it looks good to me, the line of people leading out of the sea up to the people on the hill which takes you across to the building and eventually down to the arch in the surf.

Roger R.

[Lava Lamp]

I like it, but it looks a little splotchy, if that makes sense.

[daq7]

It's just you. It is not sloping down to the right. But then I get a lot of comments about unlevel horizons. I am an ureliable witness.

[Canyon Hiker]

Thanks for the comments everyone.

daq7, I was thinking the same thing.

Paula, Thanks.

Paul I couldn't agree with you more about the sky. Very boreing and bland. That is why when I shot this I made sure to get the trees, and as little of the sky as possible. I wondered what it would look like useing heavy contrast. I bumped up the exposure two clicks from the originalas well, and this is what I got. For me, the people made it interesting.

Armondo thanks, this is Santa Cruz, California

Lava lamp, I didn't sharpen this after I shrank it for the post. I do see what your are saying.

Roger, good eye. My only complaint with this lens is at 17mm, Perspective distortion. I usually fix that but forgot with this shot. I think that might be what you are seeing.

Thanks again,

Darin