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We spent the afternoon and early evening with some friends and their children on Balmoral Beach. It was a lovely sunny day and the kids had a great time swimming, building sand castles and exploring the beach and the island. I shot mostly with the 85/1.8G and a little with the 70-200/2.8.

Sunny Days


Cheeky Grin


We all had fish and chips next to the beach for dinner. After sunset twilight brought out a palette of soft pastel colours in the sky and this branch from on of the large figs provided me with an ideal silhouette against the sky

Pastel Wall Art


and in the fading light of twilight...

All out to Sea

I like teh pastel wall art - although it is probably close to a true representation of the colours and tones on the day, I think pushing the colours in the BG a bit more would give it that little bit of ommpph to bring it off the page. Given that it is probably leaning towards a art style shot I think some creative license with teh colours is not unacceptable.

The last image is a nice family (part thereof) shot and i assume has been cropped from landscape to square - how about going back to the landscape and doing a pano style crop? The reason for this is the BG is actually quite interesting and complimentary , the pano crop will not only accentuate this but also concentrate the viewer on the girls since they are in the centre of the frame.

biggerry wrote:I like teh pastel wall art - although it is probably close to a true representation of the colours and tones on the day, I think pushing the colours in the BG a bit more would give it that little bit of ommpph to bring it off the page. Given that it is probably leaning towards a art style shot I think some creative license with teh colours is not unacceptable.

Thanks Gerry - I'd bumped the colour a bit but not super saturated

The last image is a nice family (part thereof) shot and i assume has been cropped from landscape to square - how about going back to the landscape and doing a pano style crop? The reason for this is the BG is actually quite interesting and complimentary , the pano crop will not only accentuate this but also concentrate the viewer on the girls since they are in the centre of the frame.

Unfortunately I'd shot these as portrait and cropped down from that - good idea though thanks