Thank you for your wonderful response to yesterday's photo of the clouds over the beach at sunset. I'd mentioned that the sunset itself was fairly boring because the clouds were to the south. I'd also taken this shot, low to the ground (camera was almost sitting on the sand and I was scrunched to see the scene through live view). When I went back to look at the shot tonight, I decided I liked this one. I'd been so focused on the dull sunset that I hadn't thought about how cool I think the sand looks with the light reflecting off it, creating the dark shadows across the sand. My get pushed challenge this week from Penny @pennyp is to work with shadows and I'd been thinking very conventionally about shadows until I went back to revisit this image.
@pennyp Here's my first response to your challenge about shadows. I'm waiting for a sunny day so I can do some other kinds of shadow shots but hope this 'works' for you as a start.
I love it too - textures and details. Having details in the foreground with a sunrise/sunset makes such a huge difference I think, but I find so hard to do. Wonderful, fav.
Your POV really makes this interesting, Taffy. Pointing the camera more to the right may have been even more effective, placing the sun on a third and catching even more of those long shadows...unless, of course, there was something avoiding that view...
Oh, I wish I had thought like this when I had the shadow challenge last week. It is easy to think conventional. But it is a get-pushed challenge and you have added the pushed part.
Another stunning sunset Taffy. I particularly like the way you've caught the low sunlight in the foreground sand and plants. The composition and layering of the shot looks almost 3D.
@taffy Sorry I took so long to respond to this - plenty of shadows for a difficult challenge, a wonderful sunset. If it was my shot, I might have tried to lighten the foreground a little and maybe increase the contrast in that area, too. Maybe you tried it already.
@pennyp Thanks Penny! I did play a bit with contrast and the more you could see in contrast, the less interesting it got, I'm afraid. But I like how you were thinking about it! We've had remarkably little sun since you issued the challenge...if I need to, it may be an indoor one.
Absolutely love it