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Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Location: fingal bay australia
Date: Jan 19, 2008
Aperture: f18
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1sec
Date Uploaded: Feb 1, 2008

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 lately ive been experimenting with long exposure seascapes at sunrise and sunset.on this morning a storm had just passed and the waves were 6-8 feet and crashing onto a shallow reef.it was like a washing machine.i was trying to blur the shot enough to show how much water movement there was,without losing the shape of the wave.hopefully this shot portrays the power of the ocean.as a surfer ,this photo brings back memories of countless pre dawn surf checks.it reminds me of the nervous energy you can feel in the air when the swell is big.

post processing:i dont know what im doing but i tried playing with hdr.
cloned out dust spots and lens flare. inc saturation.usm.made a copy.selected water and rocks,lightened using levels to bring out detail.combined the two images.adjusted levels again.increased saturation.resize.save for web.usm
im here to learn so feel free to tell me where i went wrong.

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 02/18/2008 11:41:14 PM
very beautiful photo. i can only reiterate some of the other comments. some more light on the rocks would look nice. the blur of the waves expresses movement very well.
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 02/17/2008 12:32:40 PM
Really the only thing I can say, other than wow, is that I would have liked to see this in landscape and not portrait. Just my taste though.

Jan.
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 02/10/2008 04:34:34 PM
Beautiful photo! I love the waves, especailly the farther one, and the colors. The rock and the silky-smooth water deserve to be more prominent, in my opinion. I would have cropped out most of the sky, leaving the sun.

I'd second the suggestion regarding lightening some of the foreground rocks.

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 02/06/2008 07:32:13 PM
Good photo. I really like the just breaking wave, blurred but not unrecognizable and the waves cascading down the midground rock. Good detail in the clouds, sun brightness is contained and the horizon is level(don't laugh, ;) it's particularly important in this type of photo composition).

My only reall critique (personal preference only) is the prominence of the foreground rock. Losing some of this rock would bring more emphasis to the wave and the midground rock/water. I like the pools of water in the foreground but unless they have a little more detail I'm not sure what they do to improve the image. In a way the sky falls into this 'not needed' catagory except it has interesting storm clouds. Hope i've made some sense.

The colors are lovely, just what I'd expect to see in an ocean sunrise. Good choice on with your shutter speed. Regards, mark
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 02/05/2008 07:46:11 PM
Overall very nice, like the way you got the wave blury, nice scenery.

This is too centered for my taste (sun, horizon, rock with water washing over it and to some extent even the best part of the wave are all centered). Thus only advice I have would have been to take this horizontally, removing a chunk of sky and adding more of a view to the left. If you can't go back to redo this, then would crop top of sky to shift horizon further away from the middle.

Minor additional thought: consider selectively lightening up the rocks in the foreground.

Hope this helps.
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 02/01/2008 07:59:04 PM
I like the scene you chose. In particular, the sun and the light reflecting off the water, and especially off the rocks, is *gorgeous.* That lighting all by itself makes this a beautiful scene.

You've got good detail and your colors are perfect pastels for a sunrise. I might crop tighter on top so the final image is about equal in terms of sky and foreground rock vertically. The detail on the rock with the little pools of water makes it worth a bigger piece of the image.

The farther wave is pretty much perfect IMO. Detail and power and movement all in one. I might like a little more texture in the very white part of the water closer in but that could be asking for the impossible ;-) Overall you did an excellent job with the exposure on the diverse elements in the scene.

I don't like centered sorts of compositions very often but even though the sun is more or less centered the composition isn't, since the light reflections are at an angle (although not in a straight line with the sun, which is a little disconcerting).

All in all I like this a LOT. I don't get a tense feeling from it but then I've never surfed or even lived near the ocean, so watching waves has always been a soothing vacation sort of activity for me.
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