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Lettergesh Beach, Connemara
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Aperture: f/8
Focal Length: 17mm
Shutter: 1/250 sec
Camera: Canon EOS 30D
Lens: EF-S 17-55I was off work last week and managed to get away to Connemara for a couple of days with the family. Shooting opportunities were limited with two kids keeping me busy, but I did manage to get this image of Lettergesh Beach. It was used in The Quiet Man, so the friendly local on the beach told me. C&C welcome!
-Doug
Can’t believe that there are no comments on this one yet??
It’s quite a striking image and the sky is great, wonder what post processing you did?
Would the shot be better without the beach and building on the right, concentrating on the hills & sky, just a thought. Or maybe just less beach? I think a tighter crop would definitely be worth a look to make an even better image.
But hey, just my thoughts and I may be way off.
John.
it think a crop off the top would be better. shame about the building to the right.
great image
love the various cloud structure and the sky – the processing really brings it all together
Thanks for the feedback everyone!
I played with various crops, but I thought the sky was pretty important to the image and I didn’t want to lose any of it. I wasn’t thrilled about the building either, but there wasn’t any way to avoid it, and cropping it out partially just looked worse.
The processing was done with a combination of B&W luminance sliders in Lightroom to bring out the blue sky, and contrast adjustment and toning in Photoshop. I had a look at Silver Efex Pro the other day, and while it has lots of options for emulating B&W filters, I prefer controlling the channels using the luminance sliders in LR, and I like the fact that the LR adjustments are non destructive.
-Doug
Thats a great conversion and nice composition. I dont like commenting on shots with nicey safe comments i always try to find something contructive to add also, as thats the type I like to recieve myself. I wander how this shot would have worked if you got down lower to take it as it is you have a superb sky and great middleground but the foreground lacks the punch that above have. I feel that if you got lower to the sand you could bring in some detail or nice reflections into the foreground
snaphappy wrote:
I dont like commenting on shots with nicey safe comments i always try to find something contructive to add also, as thats the type I like to recieve myself.
I completely agree! I was beginning to wonder if my tendency not to give safe comments was behind the fact that this image went four days without a single comment. I’m probably just being paranoid! Anyway, I’m interested in improving my photography, and I appreciate all comments, but especially the constructive ones.
I wander how this shot would have worked if you got down lower to take it as it is you have a superb sky and great middleground but the foreground lacks the punch that above have. I feel that if you got lower to the sand you could bring in some detail or nice reflections into the foreground.
I did crop out a lot of the foreground. There just wasn’t much of interest there, and I felt it unbalanced the composition with the large sky area. Maybe getting lower would have provided a bit more interest alright. I was probably reluctant because I was standing in what was effectively a river flowing across the beach! I have a few more images with a stripy, wavy pattern across the beach which I might have a go at processing. You can see a little bit of the pattern I’m talking about in the left foreground of this frame.
Thanks for the comments John!
-Doug
Well done Doug you’re surely improving!……Take the building out with the clone stamp PS. :)
Green glens wrote:
Well done Doug you’re surely improving!……Take the building out with the clone stamp PS. :)
I’m not averse to some judicious use of the clone stamp, but cloning that building out crosses the line for me! I have this weird rule, if my eye can naturally edit something from a scene, then I feel I can remove it. Things that fall into that category are things like rubbish, electric lines etc.
-Doug
The Sky was absolutely impress me … layer among layer … nice one there!! congrat.. :D
DougL wrote:
I did crop out a lot of the foreground. There just wasn’t much of interest there, and I felt it unbalanced the composition with the large sky area. Maybe getting lower would have provided a bit more interest alright. I was probably reluctant because I was standing in what was effectively a river flowing across the beach! I have a few more images with a stripy, wavy pattern across the beach which I might have a go at processing. You can see a little bit of the pattern I’m talking about in the left foreground of this frame.
Thanks for the comments John!
-Doug
That’s the kinda spade work we never know about when we look at an image, it’s just there on it’s own with nobody to tell the story of all the different processes it’s been through.
A great image that I would be proud to have taken.
John mentioned he’d like to see more foreground interest in his comments, and I’ve finally gotten around to processing the other frame I had with more foreground.
Personally, I don’t think it works quite as well. It’s a nice image, but too much of the sky is lost. Even if I’d had a wider lens, I don’t think putting the horizon in the middle of the frame would work. The sand and reflections are nice though…
-Doug
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