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Carne Beach.
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Lovely composition,
I like the grainy texture in the sand,
Great depth to the image.Thanks Paul for taking the time to reply.
I lived in a house looking out on this beach for the first
few years of my life.John.
I think I like it John, but I’m not 100% certain, it might be one of those photos that you would need to see large or in print because in it’s current format it’s very hard to see any of the detail along the dunes, it all gets a bit lost. I’d swear that IrishWonkaFan might have been advising you on sharpening too?
It reminds me a small bit of IWF’s Photo of the Month entry for Feb.
For some reason I’d love to have see a few people scattered along the beach, but there is some simple and honest about it that appeals to me.
Hi John,
I appreciate you taking the time to reply.
I know this place so well and yet I have not taken a photograph
of it that I feel happy with.You said “I think I like it John, but I’m not 100% certain” and that is close to how
I feel about it.
I took it in early March and have looked & looked at it before doing the sensible
thing and putting it up here for comment.As you know the beach is long. This is at 85mm & still it stretches away in the distance.
There were some people there when I arrived and I shot off a couple of frames.
They moved on before I could use them properly. People are just so inconsiderate.This is one of the shots I got before the family moved on. I had the wide angle on so the
scene looks vast and they look a little small.
The stuff in the bottom LH corner is probably not good either.Lots to work on methinks.
Thanks again.
John.
I wonder if you tried cropping it and taking off the bottom 25% would it help. I think there’s too much coverage at the bottom which is a bit lifeless and takes away from the panorama of the sand dunes and sky above, where the real interest is.
David
The first picture is nice, the sweeping lines of the beach flow through the picture to the distant dunes but I can’t help feeling it’s missing a focal point, maybe in the form of a beach walker, dog some such.
The second one I like less so, the foreground takes the viewer out of the left side of the shot so I have to come back to see the rest …
Could the sky be brought out more perhaps in both these ? Look like some good clouds there….might like to see the colour versions of these (unless they were shot on B&W of course!)
My previous comment was in relation to the first photo.
The second one doesn’t work for me. Apart from the composition, I think the tonal range is a bit two dimensional compared to the first and it is overall grey. It’s not that there aren’t any blacks or whites, I think it’s that the range of continuous grey seems to consume the whole picture and you’re depending on object shapes to make the picture rather than perspective created by the tonal variations. Am I making sense here?
I prefer the first one compositionally, I don’t like the bit of scrub vegetation to the bottom left.David
Thanks David. You are making sense..
I just put the 2nd shot up to show people in the scene and how they can
look a little small in such a large scene.I appreciate all these comments and will take them with me when I
get back to Carne.I’m off to root out the original colour version of the 1st image.
John.
Edit: Here it is.
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