La Jolla Cove

[Coastal Flyer]

Night work, taking advantage of the light from the full moon.

CF

[threelions usa]

looks a bit like you had floodlights over your shoulder.

the colour of the seawall looks a bit off, not quite right.

did you pp at all ??

i am hopefully looking forward to doing some evening shots fairly soon.

[Greg McCary]

You have a really good composition again but I agree the color seems off. If you shot in Raw you might could change the White Balance. There also seems to be a little lens distortion as well.

[Coastal Flyer]

Threelions/Greg:

Thanks for the comments. First, the shadow at lower left, I'll cop that out; it is from a life guard tower. I tried to get another vantage point but couldn't. The color, I suspect, is a combination of the full moon and the lousy high pressure sodium street lights. The only pp is sharpening.

Greg: help me with the distortion in this shot...., where do you see it? This is a really good comment and appreciate the insight. No pun intended.

Thanks again.

CF

P.S. Here is another shot where I used a custom white balance. Is this more what you had in mind? Do you see distortion in this shot also? Perhaps what you are seeing as distortion is in the jetty and the appearance that it "bends." It does, quite dramatically. Please let me know.

[threelions usa]

i like this one better, but it looks like a fish eye to me a bit.

you need to get the city in the background but would a slightly lower angle work taken from the beach ???

i love the cove though....

could see me there with some friends, a bottle of wine, some cheese, bread and grapes....

listening to the ocean.......i-pod playing the eagles....

:cryin: :cryin: :cryin: :cryin: :cryin: :cryin: :cryin:

[MB1]

I like the second image with the custom white balance. The first seems too yellow/green whereas I really like the rich, pure blues in the second image.

The composition in both bothers me; I think because the pier is too close to the center of the image and there is about the same amount of blue water in the image above and below the pier. The other thing about both is that their is nothing in them to tell me that it is a moonlit night.

Still, I find the second image quite pleasing.

[Coastal Flyer]

MB,

Thanks for the comments here, too. I will have to think about how to convey a moon lit night in such images (?don't do them perhaps?). I had not considered that in the composition of the subject, I had only considered use of the light to capture the jetty. The colors are what the moon and lousy sodium vapor lights from a nearby parking lot had to offer. The entire area, cove/jetty, etc., was pitch black with very little or no detail visible to the eye. The only pp I did was a bit of sharpening. As for the overall composition, i.e., same amount of land above and below the jetty is a good catch and appreciate that.

Thanks,

CF

[readingr]

CF,

I like this a lot, especially the lighting you managed to achieve in the other later one.

Roger