Sound of Taransay

Looking out towards Taransay from Scarasta Bay on a very unsettled evening with a rather rough sea. The beach drops down sharply and I had to dig the tripod about a foot into the sand as the quite powerful waves bashed past. I got absolutely soaked. Thoughts appreciated, Thanks Tristan

.4sec at f/14, 17-40, 5D

Absolutely worth getting soaked for when the reward is the movement and force with which you've captured here in the waves.Thumbs up from me.

Another thumbs up from here too - spectacular Tristan

Hi Tristan,

Another stunner. Oh I wish we had audio as well!! Great sense of movement with a nice compositon.

Well Done

Regards

Rob

Looks great - thought you had shot out of the back of a speedboat when I first saw it!

great light and great idea. not sure about the composition, only that the sweep of the waves takes your eye to the left and the action is on the top right. did you take a horizontal with more of the action going on in the background? The lighting over Taransay looks superb and it would be good to fill more of the frame with that. I guess the problem with an horizontal might have been you couldn't get all of the wave action in. what fantastic lighting! well done.
Best wishes. Hope this comes across as constructive because that was how it was intended!
Peter

Nice work Tristan. I like the comp

i think the composition is spot on, the eye starts bottom left and leads up in an s shape to top right. i love this very low angle. glad your tripod didnt fall over.

mark

Hi Tristan. Love it!

What a great shot, the motion has almost a 3D quality about it. The painterly quality and the complimentary hues to the sky work very well. The distant rain and mountains add that necessary atmosphere that I find significant with your work. I can see you what you mean when you PM'd about the 17-40. I was reading some reviews of the 16-35 II last night but who knows whether this lens is any better with perspective control.

Thanks all. Peter: your critique is much appreciated and exactly the kind of feedback I am looking for. Unfortunately I didn’t get a landscape shot of this. Dave: the barrel distortion is even worse on landscape shots with my lens. Not sure how to correct for it. I'm sure I've not dropped it (recently anyway). This review of the 16-35 II doesn’t seem to make it sound worth the extra money to me: http://www.16-9.net/lens_tests/canon1635ii_a/c1635ii_a1.html

I thought this image may be picked up for the sea spray which I've tried to remove in places but you can still see it. I had a terrible time trying to keep the lens clear. Thanks, Tristan

Love it Tristan -well done.

Well there are a variety of ways to correct the distortion, I'll send you a PMessage tomorrow. All I know is my 17-40 can keep the horizon straight literally to the top without needing correction,
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5281839

but your copy isnt a bad example of the lens, just have a look at Zack Schenpf's images, I even emailed him and told him to get rid of it after seeing an image of his in Outdoor Photographer whilst in Calgary airport. He agreed it was a simply terrible copy! Marc Adamus also has a terrible job with his 17-40 if you ask me bowing lots of horizons on his coastal work, I think he has replaced it now though with the 16-35 II (I think I read somewhere)

Cracking shot! The dynamic foreground grabs the viewer`s eye, leading it through to the dramatic sky and distant hills. Great stuff.

A corker Tristan

Alan

Wow....that's about all i can say!

Greetings,

Jeroen Stel

This is a belter! At first the foreground water looked 'odd', but the more I look the more I think it actually looks great! Gives it such a violent look - the power of the sea and all that!

Nicely done indeed!

Wow talk about movement