Its been a long time

[Andrew Eagleson]

Hi,

Its been a VERY long time (two years +) since I visited this forum. I had a bit of a hectic time in my life, but I am back behind the shutter. I'll start with some photo's from a recent drive down the Pacific Highway I took...
I couldn't get one of the photos to compress down far enough to post on the forum, so I put it in my online gallery and will post a link to it...

http://andrews.photos.us.com/p62924950.html

Let me know what you think...

Andrew

[Frog]

Glad to see you back.

Of the two, I prefer the first but that's only my taste talking.
Can almost hear the waves and smell the air and feel the chill.
Is that a log in lower left of #1? Took me a while to figure out what it might be due to the darkness of that area of the photo and the softness. I find it distracting but otherwise nothing to pick at.

[gahspidy]

Good to have you back, Andrew.
I agree with frog in that the 1st photo moves me more.
I think it is the view of the ocean against the shore crashing over the rocks. also the mood with the mist. There is a pleasing openess about it.
I feel that a crop from the bottom just above the tree in the lower right corner making this into a pano type format improves. It also brings us close to the action going on in the shore and brings the horizon down from center.
Very nice!

[draymorton]

Beautiful shots. Was there an ND filter in the mix?

[Andrew Eagleson]

I didn't use any lens filters on this photo...

When I originally took the photos, I was taking the shots into the sun with mist. The ocean and the sky looked really good, but the color on the mountains looked horrible. I decided that if the color on the mountains looked horrible, why not just get rid of it? So I desaturated the mountains and played a little with the sky and sea in Lightroom.

Andrew

[Andrew Eagleson]

Ghaspidy,

I took your suggestion and tried the crop above the tree. I like the results... what do you think?

Andrew

[Frog]

I don't know what he thinks but I like it better. Got rid of that log on the left too.

[gahspidy]

Ghaspidy,

I took your suggestion and tried the crop above the tree. I like the results... what do you think?

Andrew

Perfect! Thats exactly it.
Looks real good, a perfect framer.

[LeeIs]

Love the cropped version. nice composition and lovely pastel colours. well done.