Punta Medanos

Gallery: LandscapePosted June 8, 2010231 views16 comments

Hi folks

I took this sunrise at Punta Medanos, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

This is little experiment, the difuse/soft top part of the image is because a foggy ND grad due to the very strong and humid wind that day, and i cleaned just the bottom part with a tissue. I like the result and i´ll love to read your oppinions about it.

Single shot
1DsIII / Old Olympus Zuiko 24mm f2.8 / Singh-ray 3 stop reverse grad handheld

Thanks in advance!

Comments

16 comments

Comment posted by Mark Windom on June 8, 2010 at 9:10 PM

Terrific mood here....I like your experiment with the grad. Your timing is right on, too, with the incoming wave. If I were to change anything it would be to make this a little lighter and less tight at the bottom. Nice work!

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Comment posted by Paul Marcellini on June 8, 2010 at 9:44 PM

I like the arrangement of elements, and the foggy experiment. I too would bring up the foregorund just a touch.

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Comment posted by Ricardo La Piettra on June 8, 2010 at 9:56 PM

Thanks for the comments guys!. Here´s a brighter version as you suggested.

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Comment posted by Mat Malone on June 8, 2010 at 10:23 PM

Ahh, simplicity is beautiful. The FG brightness doesn't make a big difference to me, both work. Good stuff.

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Comment posted by Benjamin Glatt on June 8, 2010 at 10:44 PM

I like this, the elements come together nicely. Try this, I would crop from the bottom, try to eliminate that corner patch of sand in the lower right, and then take a little off the right side to place the rock more off-center.

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Comment posted by Jeffrey Hak Kan Le on June 8, 2010 at 10:54 PM

Very nice one and the brighter version is much better. If the stone go a bit to the right and included more sand pattern on the left it would be prefect.

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Comment posted by Lon Overacker on June 8, 2010 at 11:27 PM

Ricardo,

This is stunning and surreal. The combination resulting from your technique worked beautifully. I love everything about this including the swirling wave line. This is one is special.

Lon

ps. I prefer the original.

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Comment posted by Yan Zhang on June 9, 2010 at 4:13 AM

Very nice shot, the moving water, detailed FG and the dramatic color of the sky all combine together perfectly.

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Comment posted by Michael Anderson on June 9, 2010 at 4:21 AM

Ricardo,

The repost is perfect. Very beautifully captured and a brilliant idea to leave part of the grad foggy. VERY nice!

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Comment posted by Aaron Feinberg on June 9, 2010 at 4:59 AM

YES! You da man Ricky. Epic idea. Great results. Love the size of that surf coming in too. And the bit of sunstar. Kudos

aF

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Comment posted by Bruno Silva on June 9, 2010 at 6:53 AM

very nice, mate!!! 24mm Om hem? l like those! beautiful light and colors. the flow is nice too, just love this. ps: I´ll go with the repost....

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Comment posted by Wendy Blanchard on June 9, 2010 at 10:55 AM

Beautiful, I especially love the foreground details in the sand and light

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Comment posted by Ricardo La Piettra on June 9, 2010 at 11:13 AM

Thanks a lot for the inputs people!

Ben: Thanks man. Im seeing your point, i´ll try that and see how it looks, but i think that will put the sun to close to the left border of the frame.

Bruno: Yes mate, im using a Zuiko 24mm OM on the 1Ds. It´s the most compact wide-angle lens ever made, almost like having the camera without a lens mounted :), extremely sharp specially in the corners compared to the 17-40L, manual focus obviously but who needs auto fucus for lanscape photography?

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Comment posted by Ned Fenimore on June 9, 2010 at 1:06 PM

Man! This is really sweet...!

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Comment posted by Mark Metternich on June 10, 2010 at 2:38 PM

Very dreamy!

I would be tempted to run a graduated gradient adjustment to increase luminance (in ACR) from right to left to balance the tones (from right to left) a tad more.

Wonderful none the less.

Mark

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Comment posted by Mark Metternich on June 14, 2010 at 3:01 PM

Deserving of more comments for sure!

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