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Water meets land

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Dawid Loubser

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Water meets land
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Six years since shooting another similar wave image in this location, I was rewarded by a sequence of enormous waves colliding with their predecessors during spring tide - quite a spectacle in this late-afternoon light.

I like how the curve of the wave aligns perfectly with the outline of the obscured cliffs, an illustration of how land and see really form one whole on this planet of ours.
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Dawid Loubser said:
Six years since shooting another similar wave image in this location, I was rewarded by a sequence of enormous waves colliding with their predecessors during spring tide - quite a spectacle in this late-afternoon light.

I like how the curve of the wave aligns perfectly with the outline of the obscured cliffs, an illustration of how land and see really form one whole on this planet of ours.
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Water meets land
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Hello Dawid,

Yes, this is impressive and unusually powerful. Patience and persistence is important in photography! We can't often mould our natural subjects, rather we have to meet them as they do their dance in time and space. So how did you take this picture and process it. What were your thoughts on the management of the cliffs behind in terms of expressing detail and dimensionality?

Also how are you printing this significant picture?

Asher
 
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Dawid Loubser

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Asher Kelman said:
So how did you take this picture and process it. What were your thoughts on the management of the cliffs behind in terms of expressing detail and dimensionality?

Also how are you printing this significant picture?

Asher
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Hello Asher,

This is one of my (rarer) digital images, and it was taken hand-held at 200mm-equivalent focal length. The contrast of the original is exceptionally low - both because of significant haze/mist with all the wave activity, and shooting almost straight into the sun.

I applied a very complex tone curve to the RAW file using the most excellent Darktable open-source RAW converter (having switched to the Arch Linux operating system some time ago - I just couldn't deal with Apple's nonsense anymore).

The only images that I can print myself at this time are my film images in the darkroom, so this one will be printed by a local specialist shop I think.

With regards to the cliffs in the background: Not only was there not much detail / dimensionality to be captured through all the haze, I much prefer them "flat" in stark contrast to the main subject.
 
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