Bamburgh Beach

[kev7d]

Taken on Friday. I deliberately took the shot to have a play in photoshop. I blurred the sea and sky and then added various filters in colour ex pro 4. Just an experiment to see what I could come out with, it keeps me busy.    I am quite pleased with the result but I will let you good people be the judge.

 

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[NannyFerret]

I like the editing.

It has a lovely calming effect.

[kev7d]

I like the editing.

It has a lovely calming effect.

 

Thats is what I was trying to achieve. Thank you.

[Leon]

hmmmm...... the picture is not for me.... BUT I can see it hanging on a wall in a seaside cafe somewhere....

[kev7d]

hmmmm...... the picture is not for me.... BUT I can see it hanging on a wall in a seaside cafe somewhere....

 

 

Thanks Leon. Appreciate your honest comment.  

[THELONGMAN]

Less is more, simple and strong,-- Lovely  picture Kev,

 

Geoff

[kev7d]

Less is more, simple and strong,-- Lovely  picture Kev,

 

Geoff

 

Thanks Geoff

 

There was a method in my madness with this one. Sky line on the top 1/3. Sea line on the lower 1/3. The 3 clumps of grass evenly across the front of frame.  

[FUJI]

I can see and almost feel what you were aiming for here Kev.........but I honestly think that you have a few too many elements to make it special.

The horizontal divisions of a landscape view is a classic composition, but here there are just too many, and conflict is introduced by the foreground grasses, which shoot up vertically intruding upon the calm horizontals.

I do realise, that foreground interest can be essential to complete many compositions, but ( to me) not here.......I can recall more than one well known photographs with carefully thought out horizontal divisions.

Are you able to return to try again when there are just the three elements of Beach, Sea and Sky?

It fascinates me that we all see, then interpret the same scene in different ways?

Many artists check composition by holding a work up to a mirror, this has the effect of giving a completely fresh view with all the elements reversed.

I sometimes wish that I had more ready access to the coast.

Addendum:

This is just one of the photographs I was thinking about...

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/11/11/and-heres-the-most-expensive-photograph-in-the-world/

FUJI

[kev7d]

Thanks for commenting FUJI. I think this is just part way down the road in my "experiment" and the effect I am trying to get. So yep, I will be back on the coast at some point to put feedback into practise and see what I come up with.

 

I have seen that article on the most expensive photo in the world before. I have to say, its certainly not an image that I even like!  

[Guest]

One of Britain's best beaches and a lovely, and slightly different perspective on it.

[kev7d]

One of Britain's best beaches and a lovely, and slightly different perspective on it.

 

Many thanks Bill.