Interesting. Nice interesting! Me - I'd crop the top to lose the light strip and make the green bit to the right more of a triangle (losing the strip of green that wanders over to the left.
Its an intriguing shot - with the combination of textures and colours (the blue smooth bit is lovely!). Well worth the effort in my opinion.
Its always a fascinating process for me when something new visually comes along - you know what I mean? A bird on a stick is a bird on a stick, and try as you might its generally a lot of stick and a lot of bird, not that thats bad, its just that we've seen it before and whilst we can always appreciate another one, its still more stick, more bird.
But with work like this its a bit like having a new taste in your mouth - you've to roll it about and consider it, and then decide whether its salt or sweet or whatever and what does it remind you of etc etc.
G ood point John - but some of us can't get to see these exiting places and lets face it - you have to go there to get the shots !
Where I live , I have all the birds on a twig stuff - but I don.t get the sunsets etc and the coast.
Can't have it all I suppose.
Cheers
JR
I hear what you're saying John, and agree. What your situation DOES enable though is the perfection of the bird on a stick shot, and that raises the bar for these shots way beyond the level of the casual snappers. I guess it starts to get like drinking fine wines, you still get pi55ed but its the subtle flavours you appreciate on the way there that make it different!
Well thought out shot and I love these slow exposure drag shots that turn an ordinary boring view into something special.
Can it be improved? my only suggestion would be to straighten the curve-linear dark shingle bank on RHS to make the horison appear a bit straighter and perhaps crop out the tiny bit of blue sky, but that's down to individual tastes
A cracking shot, full of vibrancy and imagination.
Twenty out of ten for seeing the potential, not what many would call a N.H. shot, but still a very memorable shot, which I could enjoy looking at time and time again, which is more than I could say for the BOAS or in a puddle shots we see.
To nit pick would be being petty, as I said, a cracking shot which I have enjoyed very much. Thanks for posting.
Very nice, love the different strokes of colour here. I also would crop off the white strip at the top, but other then that I think this works very~well!
I guess this sort of image is not everyone’s cuppa but that is the point of a forum - we come, we see, we like - we comment, we dislike - we don't comment, sometimes a combination of both. The important thing is that the forum is 'inclusive' - birds on sticks to blurred natural landscapes.
I liked the shot as it stood but I've taken on board some of the comments and included a repost which includes some of the suggestions - I think it probably works better. Thanks for looking.
excelent shot, I have done loads of these and every one is always different, some work some do not, this works very well indeed, lovelyabstract image well done
Whatever you do Chris there will always be the likers and dislikers. Sometimes you alone have to judge if its what you set out to do and that you are happy with the result. It is however nice to get feedback and to anylize and use it to your benefit. Its good to see fresh ideas. Having said that some of us may find it difficult to put it into practice me being no exception. Major.
It works for me Chris. I think pure abstracts need to be bold and this has that. What I do find is that the differences that cause me to like / dislike an abstract can be quite minimal, often unexplainable and rarely logical. For me it's usually a purely gut reaction. However, in this image I find it interesting the way the slow shutter speed has created a contrast by streaking the sand and smoothing the water surfaces. I agree with John about cropping out the top bit of green that crosses the whole frame. That would give you an even more graphic series of diagonals which I feel would make it stronger. Unfortunately you cannot do that in this instance as you would lose to much of the green RH triangle. Without getting into the whole manipulation argument perhaps you could remove the top band of green and extend the blue area into the corner digitally?
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15 repliesPlease be assured that my camera didn't accidentally fire when I took it out of my camera bag. This was deliberate.
I'd be interested in honest opinions about this image (no matter how extreme) - I promise not to 'take my ball home' if your view differs from mine.
1ds3, 16-35mm zoom at 24, ISO 50, 1/3 @ f/22, handheld
Cheers,
Chris
Do you want me to be really honest ?
Lovely shot by the way
JR
Its an intriguing shot - with the combination of textures and colours (the blue smooth bit is lovely!). Well worth the effort in my opinion.
Its always a fascinating process for me when something new visually comes along - you know what I mean? A bird on a stick is a bird on a stick, and try as you might its generally a lot of stick and a lot of bird, not that thats bad, its just that we've seen it before and whilst we can always appreciate another one, its still more stick, more bird.
But with work like this its a bit like having a new taste in your mouth - you've to roll it about and consider it, and then decide whether its salt or sweet or whatever and what does it remind you of etc etc.
Good stuff.
Where I live , I have all the birds on a twig stuff - but I don.t get the sunsets etc and the coast.
Can't have it all I suppose.
Cheers
JR
Can it be improved? my only suggestion would be to straighten the curve-linear dark shingle bank on RHS to make the horison appear a bit straighter and perhaps crop out the tiny bit of blue sky, but that's down to individual tastes
Twenty out of ten for seeing the potential, not what many would call a N.H. shot, but still a very memorable shot, which I could enjoy looking at time and time again, which is more than I could say for the BOAS or in a puddle shots we see.
To nit pick would be being petty, as I said, a cracking shot which I have enjoyed very much. Thanks for posting.
Ken
I guess this sort of image is not everyone’s cuppa but that is the point of a forum - we come, we see, we like - we comment, we dislike - we don't comment, sometimes a combination of both. The important thing is that the forum is 'inclusive' - birds on sticks to blurred natural landscapes.
I liked the shot as it stood but I've taken on board some of the comments and included a repost which includes some of the suggestions - I think it probably works better. Thanks for looking.
Cheers,
Chris
I like the shot Chris, the colours and textures all work together.
Andy...
Jeff