Dawn of Time

Gallery: LandscapePosted March 6, 2013687 views16 comments

Ecola, Oregon

Sunset among the sea stacks on the beach at Ecola, Oregon. Another oldie taken in 1982 using my Mamiya 645 and Ektachrome Professional 100 transparency film. Scanned with an Epson V750, betterscanning.com film holder an Silverfast Stuio 8 Ai software.

Thanks for having a look. This may still need a little work so let me know what you think.

Comments

16 comments

Comment posted by Richard Teller on March 7, 2013 at 7:16 AM

This is a very moody image. The light is great and you captured it very well.

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on March 7, 2013 at 9:06 AM

Eva, This is beautiful, and what a wonderful mood! Love this!

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

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Comment posted by John&Patty Benway on March 7, 2013 at 9:18 AM

Beautiful scene indeed Eva, excellent comp,color and light. Very well seen and presented.
John

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on March 7, 2013 at 9:31 AM

Love the mood and the light, especially where it's "sneaking" through the rocks. I think cropping about half of the dark area at the bottom adds emphasis to the rocks and shore.

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Comment posted by Rick Turner on March 7, 2013 at 9:33 AM

I agree with Mark on crop at bottom.
Lovely mood in capture.

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Comment posted by Paul Breitkreuz on March 7, 2013 at 10:23 AM

Eva, needless to say technically a tough capture with exposure latitude especially with transparency film. Overall, this came out extremely nice considering that challenge.
I especially like the light path as it has weaved through the rock formations. The amount of light here has also provided enough back area light for a good outlining of the large rocks too.

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Comment posted by Morris McClung on March 7, 2013 at 11:59 AM

A primordial scene for sure. Although it would be the Dusk of Time wouldn't it?

Yeah, that doesn't sound as good.

Love everything about this one, Eva. Great light, color, mood, and story. A little noise clean up in the sky perhaps.

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Comment posted by Mark Metternich on March 7, 2013 at 1:48 PM

I enjoy the extremes of atmosphere here. Dramatic.

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Comment posted by Gary McGhee on March 7, 2013 at 3:06 PM

Fantastic sunset Eva, love the receding stacks.

Gary.

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Comment posted by Matt Anderson on March 7, 2013 at 6:54 PM

Very nice!

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Comment posted by Scott Smorra on March 7, 2013 at 7:35 PM

When I first opened the image I thought to myself, "that sure looks like the Oregon Coast". It's nice to see an image from you from my neck of the woods! Very nice use of light and shadow. I could see cropping a bit off the bottom, but this works very well as presented.

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Comment posted by Kah Kit Yoong on March 7, 2013 at 8:21 PM

Might clean up some of the noise. Otherwise a powerful image, like what you've done with lighting levels and colour.

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Comment posted by Lon Overacker on March 8, 2013 at 12:54 PM

Eva,

I really like this! Despite the large areas of detailess shadow, there's a great sense of mysterious and enchanting mood here. The hint of light filling up the bottom of the frame is important and for that reason I wouldn't crop. Other than the aforementioned noise/grain, I think this works wonderfully.

Lon

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Comment posted by Vance Gese on March 9, 2013 at 12:13 PM

Love the glow bouncing around within the silhouetted sea stacks and the hint of light in the foreground sand. Your scanning and processing were very successful, Eva, in my opinion as this could easily have been overwhelmed by dark, featureless silhouettes. Really like the tunnel-like perspective as well, with the eye drawn back along the beach between the rock to the gorgeous sky. An oldie as you state, but definitely a beautiful image.

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Comment posted by Eirini Pajak on March 10, 2013 at 5:02 PM

Beautiful layers here! The fading light is spectacular!

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Comment posted by Ed Lowe on March 11, 2013 at 7:17 PM

This is dripping with mood, Eva. The interplay of light and shadow is simply spectacular.

My only suggestion would be the already mentioned noise cleanup.

Ed

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