Posted by Youssef Ismail on September 25, 2009 at 12:18 AM
Here is a photo made last month at Point Lobos State Reserve. A very challenging place to photograph, but I think I am starting to see what it potentially possible there.
Posted by Youssef Ismail on September 25, 2009 at 8:50 AM
So what you are looking at are some ring shaped patterns in a conglomerate rock wall on the Point Lobos shore. Its hard to tell, but it a vertical wall, with an overall depression where these four general ring shapes were further depressed into the wall. The variation in colors from the various oxidized minerals is what caught my eye.
Posted by Dan Baumbach on September 25, 2009 at 11:32 AM
Very nice, Youssef. I need to go down to Carmel early next week, but unfortunately it will be in the mid-day.
- Dan.
Posted by Youssef Ismail on September 25, 2009 at 12:59 PM
Dan,
That is actually ok since it will most probably be overcast, at least it is almost everytime I have been at Point Lobos and it was when this photo was made.
Posted by Robert Dayton on September 25, 2009 at 2:49 PM
This is one of the most beautiful stone/rock abstracts that I've ever seen.
Well done, Youssef!
Posted by David Page on September 25, 2009 at 3:08 PM
I have great difficulty at Point Lobos. This is not an easy place to get lots of great shots.
I do have one nit. The pebbles on the lower right look oversaturated. My mind then extrapolates this oversaturation to the entire image.
Posted by Eric Good on September 26, 2009 at 4:51 PM
I love this stuff! Great colors and patterns found here. I particularly like the inclusion of the small stones in the LRC as a indicator of the scale. Very inspiring work! Hopefully I'll have time to post something similar I took the other day.
Posted by Roland Burkert on September 27, 2009 at 12:42 AM
This is a fascinating abstract. II love it. However, I would like to know more about how you captured it. I have been a rock climber for over 35 years and have seen some very wild colors in the rocks I have climbed. I have never seen the deep blues you found in this wall. Is this color common at Point Lobos? Did you wet the rock to bring out the color? Also, did you use a flash or is this ambient light?
Thanks
Posted by Youssef Ismail on September 27, 2009 at 10:00 PM
Roland,
It was ambient over cast light. Point Lobos is strange in that the rocks are primarily sandstone but with many other rocks embedded in it, Conglomerate. The tones in teh rocks vary all over the place as well, most probably from the varying minerals that have oxidized. These rocks were wet as they are normally under water, but were exposed during low tide. Over cast weather probably helped in that they did not dry out so quickly.
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- Dan.
That is actually ok since it will most probably be overcast, at least it is almost everytime I have been at Point Lobos and it was when this photo was made.
Well done, Youssef!
- DMP
This is very cool.
I have great difficulty at Point Lobos. This is not an easy place to get lots of great shots.
I do have one nit. The pebbles on the lower right look oversaturated. My mind then extrapolates this oversaturation to the entire image.
Thanks
It was ambient over cast light. Point Lobos is strange in that the rocks are primarily sandstone but with many other rocks embedded in it, Conglomerate. The tones in teh rocks vary all over the place as well, most probably from the varying minerals that have oxidized. These rocks were wet as they are normally under water, but were exposed during low tide. Over cast weather probably helped in that they did not dry out so quickly.