Our favourite beach, The Cote Sauvage in Charente Maritime.
It was good to go back there yesterday and jump in and out of the big waves. It was gloriously sunny with azure blue skies. Made a schoolboy error putting sun cream on my feet with my sandals on when we got to the beach. Then I took my sandals off for the 2 hours we spent on the beach, and burnt the tops of my feet to a crisp!!
I shot this scene with a very high contrast processing in mind. I have some "normal" shots of the beach too.
Have noticed one or two blemishes since I uploaded, will have to process them out for my file copy!!
Sorry to hear about the feet :( Seriously good shot here. Can you advise how you achieved this? Did you over-expose in-camera or in processing or both? I've had a go recently but I want it to look like this and it doesn't :)
@pistache firstly I decided on my composition so I could decide what the end shot would be like. Then I used a polariser that can be adjusted so I created lots of reflection. Then I actually underexposed the shot, by about a stop, so that the people were darker and would stay so when I processed the shot.
Then in silver efex pro I selected a high contrast filter, can't remember which one but there are several. Then added the blue filter to darken the black areas. Then dodged a few areas to take out a few shadows and blemishes. Finally I cropped to take some negative space off the top and centre the line of the sea and people.
Then in silver efex pro I selected a high contrast filter, can't remember which one but there are several. Then added the blue filter to darken the black areas. Then dodged a few areas to take out a few shadows and blemishes. Finally I cropped to take some negative space off the top and centre the line of the sea and people.