Critique welcome. Veteran 365er, 2011 vintage. Only posting occasionally and irregularly now.
I'm an abstract photography enthusiast but not exclusively so.
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I love the way the water running down the beach sweeps around. That leads you into the distance. I wonder if that would have been emphasized better if you had been standing on the sea wall that crosses the image. Unfortunately that is a powerful stop line but does not take you into the image sideways. An alternative would have been to crop it out, but that would have destroyed the negative space effect that make the walkers look just right. A very difficult framing aesthetic this one.
I wonder about walking down, shot-left, so that you picture those lovely curves and don't get the line of the sea defence right across the picture. Of course you would lose the walkers. Drat. Dammed if you do and dammed if you don't.
Overall a difficult aesthetic but worth the effort because the curves win the day. In the end you have to make the shot or lose the walkers, so quick action was really the only way forward. I wonder what will happen next time you are at this scene (grin) after our previous conversation! LOL.You could be waiting several hours for walkers just there. Ha ha!
A great shot of a very familiar scene Alison. When I was younger I always wanted the tide to be in to cover what I thought of as the horrible mud. Now I prefer to see this view with the tide out as I think the mud photographs very well.
Almost looks like two shots in one. Foreground With walkers and then the pennants framing those great curves which to me seem to be sweeping towards us.
I love the way the water running down the beach sweeps around. That leads you into the distance. I wonder if that would have been emphasized better if you had been standing on the sea wall that crosses the image. Unfortunately that is a powerful stop line but does not take you into the image sideways. An alternative would have been to crop it out, but that would have destroyed the negative space effect that make the walkers look just right. A very difficult framing aesthetic this one.
I wonder about walking down, shot-left, so that you picture those lovely curves and don't get the line of the sea defence right across the picture. Of course you would lose the walkers. Drat. Dammed if you do and dammed if you don't.
Overall a difficult aesthetic but worth the effort because the curves win the day. In the end you have to make the shot or lose the walkers, so quick action was really the only way forward. I wonder what will happen next time you are at this scene (grin) after our previous conversation! LOL.You could be waiting several hours for walkers just there. Ha ha!