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Well it was certainly an interestign morning out, great to spend time with fellow photographers and meet new ones too!

Conditions were tought to work with, however as suren is probably sick of me saying - ya gotta work with what ya got!

Given there was quite an amount of traffic here its only natural to try and utilise these peeps to anchor and scale the compositions. Which as it turned out, pretty easy since you could point ya camera in any direction and you were guaranteed a pleb in the shot

Anyway - I did try a few different things and utilise the unique nature of what we had that morning, specifically the low tide and great access to lots of slippery green sh$t.

I am interested in thoughts on these and the processing - good bad ugly or indifferent.







I am trying to master this business of taking pictures directly into the sun...

All top notch as usual Gerry.

The last image is the one that appeals to me the most.

I like the idea of the first - I'd kinda want more or less of the reflection in the still water if you know what I mean - i.e. more reflected blue or much less (CPL?) so you could see "into" the pond. I think you could also crop that far right to remove the large distracting flare.

#3 is OK and I have some like this too but I think the boring skies screwed those for us

#4 is that other view I was talking about with our pond and I too quite like this one - it's a pity the main flare is right over that really interesting green stuff - it would have been nice to see right in there clearly at it (CPL again?) - BTW: what is the go with CPL with the Lee Filters - do you put on a CPL before the Lee stuff and then work out how to rotate the CPL and not move it whilst rotating the Lee stuff or is there some form of Lee CPL thingy (not sure how that would work)?

Gerry

#4 is the best here. It makes great use of botht eh sun and the water and for once (in my case) the lens flare adds to rather than subtracts from the shot

I like the first two in a "this is about photography" or advertising photography sense. Great images.

The third and fourth are nice long foreground leading shots that work really well for me. Noice.

#1 Nice composition and don't you wish they the fellow was carrying a fishing rod on his shoulder.. The oranges on the cliff appear to a little blown or something ( iwas not happy with my photos of this either..it appeared textureless and it was hard to wring out any textture out of it

#2 the most pleasing image I reckon. The balance of light is just right. Nice compo and foregorund detail. The winner of the lot.

#3 weakest composition I reckon.

#4 Nice composition again. I don't mind most of the flare but the triangular flare in the middle of the pool distracts from the pool which is the main subject. The smaller flare dots and the bit the right lower doesn't distract. Tricky lighting on this one and you have done well to get any picture! Usually once the sun is out, it's very hard to include it in the frame and get away with it...

I think I like #2 the most. Love how the water draining out from the rocks directs your eyes out into the ocean. Good work.