Michel BRAUD
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Iles Sanguinaires 03
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Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Michel,
May I welcome this interesting picture, where the sea rushes between us and silhouetted hills topped by manmade efforts to importance and to be preeminent over his surroundings.
I'd consider working the RAW image in separate ways for the clouds, hills and water, as that will yield the inherent layering and depth this pictures has. Of course, you may want a flat look and that would be just your style and we'd like that too.
You have chosen a scene which will vary of course each season but also every day and time of the day. So it would be wonderful if you could keep photographing this and we could see though your own eyes how this changes. This potentially could be fascinating series.
You might want to look at including more of the rocks in the foreground so as to better anchor the image.
Thanks for sharing.
Asher
May I welcome this interesting picture, where the sea rushes between us and silhouetted hills topped by manmade efforts to importance and to be preeminent over his surroundings.
I'd consider working the RAW image in separate ways for the clouds, hills and water, as that will yield the inherent layering and depth this pictures has. Of course, you may want a flat look and that would be just your style and we'd like that too.
You have chosen a scene which will vary of course each season but also every day and time of the day. So it would be wonderful if you could keep photographing this and we could see though your own eyes how this changes. This potentially could be fascinating series.
You might want to look at including more of the rocks in the foreground so as to better anchor the image.
Thanks for sharing.
Asher
nicolas claris
OPF Co-founder/Administrator
Funny! this is somewha I have just asked Michel by PM!!!
I know very well this place close to Ajaccio, it is an awesome place changing of colors every time, but can be really rough too!
The light house was built at the en of the XIX century and is still working…
So now, Michel, we're waiting from you for the Sanguinaires Islands saga!
Michel BRAUD
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I have a few others but I did took pictures from the exact same place along few years, I may post on another thread.
Michel BRAUD
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Asher,
This image is a scanned Fuji slide like all the pictures I make with my Hasselblad, so RAW treatment is no concern here.
My scanner is also a cheap beast, therefore all the postprocessing obviously brings a good share of degradation. I already treated clouds / water and hill separetly in PS and I guess an expert would do a lot better, I am always afraid of over post-processing.
All this to tell that I went your way in the treatment, but may be not far enough.
In return, if it was possible I would have gone with no foreground at all. More foreground would have burried the subject with no real attraction.
May be your feeling of lack of depth is due to the lens' focal, here 180mm. The other two pictures should answer this point.
Many thanks for your time and comment.
Michel
This image is a scanned Fuji slide like all the pictures I make with my Hasselblad, so RAW treatment is no concern here.
My scanner is also a cheap beast, therefore all the postprocessing obviously brings a good share of degradation. I already treated clouds / water and hill separetly in PS and I guess an expert would do a lot better, I am always afraid of over post-processing.
All this to tell that I went your way in the treatment, but may be not far enough.
In return, if it was possible I would have gone with no foreground at all. More foreground would have burried the subject with no real attraction.
May be your feeling of lack of depth is due to the lens' focal, here 180mm. The other two pictures should answer this point.
Many thanks for your time and comment.
Michel
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Michel,
The last picture would seem to demolish my argument, yes that picture requires no anchor. However, the very first picture with such strong water energy, benefits from the angle which projects the force of the water going through a limited channel.
So obviously, for each condition, the angle an point of shooting might be different.
Thanks for the new pictures!
Asher
Georg R. Baumann
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Hello Michael,
Excellent!
Beyond doubts, this is one of the places where you can go over and over again, and always get a complete new "picotion", doh?, I mean "emopic", Heck I mean emotional picture.
A place that makes me want to be there in this lighthouse with an elderly gentlemen living there since decades... listening to his stories...
Excellent!
Beyond doubts, this is one of the places where you can go over and over again, and always get a complete new "picotion", doh?, I mean "emopic", Heck I mean emotional picture. A place that makes me want to be there in this lighthouse with an elderly gentlemen living there since decades... listening to his stories...