Yet another Blue Sky...

A sunny day in Bournemouth, and towards the end of the day some lovely soft lighting on the new wood in the groynes on the beach...




GX10, 1/125th at f13, ISO 100, 10mm on Sigma 10-20mm.




GX10, 1/90th at f13, ISO 100, 10mm on Sigma 10-20mm.

I'm not sure whuch orientation I prefer... opinions please !

(Converging verticals corrected in PhotoPlus X2, slight unsharp mask, otherwise as found...)

I definitely prefer the portrait version, because it concentrates the eye on the groyne and crops out the pier on the left of the landscape version, which is a distraction IMHO

I like the first one most. Indeed the pier is a bit distracting. Idealy i would like the baken on the end disappear or be below the horizon. And i would have cloned out that footprint. But the sky is much more interesting in the first. Oh yeah......PS is telling me that the horizon is 0,1 degree off balance.
Why am i nitpicking? It is a beautiful picture
Martin.

No.1 for me. I like the way the sun has caught on the bolts. The footprint is OK I think, great interest was taken when a footprint on the moon was photographed. It shows someone was there!

Thanks for the feedback.

I like the first one best because it is simpler (and I like simple), but the pier and crane in the landscape one is included deliberately to provide a counterpoint to the line of the groyne (and I liked the way the crane was lit).

Regarding the footprint, being on the very edge is what seems to spoil it, I'll see what it is like cloned out.

For the horizon line, I could have sworn that I checked that with a grid when I distorted the picture to straighten the verticals, so I assumed the current effect was an optical illusion due to the line made by the groyne. I *think* I checked the wrong version...

I'll have another bash at it tonight !

I'm a stickler for straight horizons, but 0.1 of a degree?!? I think it looks more than it is because everything else seems to be at an angle - the clouds, the water's edge, the post at the end of the groyne (I don't think that is either, I think it's just the way it's made, but can't see clearly enough to say for sure).

Dan

First one for me, but I'm a big portrait orientation fan....for some reason about two thirds of my pictures are taken that way.

Nice shots both though.....

Revised version.

I didn't need to clone out the footprint, by the time I'd stretched out the lower part of the picture to get the saw marks on the wood vertical the footprint was way outside the picture area. I've made it a little deeper in tone as well.




The horizon is horizontal now, to the extent that I can judge it using a grid.

Very nice. I liked the original, but the tighter crop (for whatever reason) looks even better (imo)

At the moment, any "water feature" shots around here would be big, flat, unbroken expanses of white snow over ice... unless I could convince the kids to build a snowman or something - bit it is -17 celcius - might be a hard sell...