Meredith Bain
September 2023 - Addis Bay
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About the Image(s)
I am fortunate to live at the head of The Great Ocean Road in southern Australia. That gives those of us who live locally an easy drive with jaw dropping views and many, many seascape opportunities in all sorts of weather.
On the day I took this image I was about 100 kms from home on The Great Ocean Road and saw a little grassed picnic area that I had not noticed before. I quickly pulled over and found that it had a pathway from the grassed area down to the sea. It was about to rain - in fact it did rain about 20 minutes later but that gave me enough time to find a composition I liked, get out my filters and put on my favourite landscape lens.
This is the end result with Lightroom Editing only. I used the auto DeNoise which made a small positive difference to my already in focus image and the usual Basic adjustments with a light hand. The rocks in the middle of the image were in shadow which I lightened to see more detail with a brush Mask. I also darkened the sky a little by using a sky Mask to better see the cloud pattern and to give more of a sense of impending rain.
My main image is slightly cropped at 6x4 but the rocks bottom left distract I think. I have included a second crop at 1x1 which takes out those rocks and would like others' thoughts on whether this is an improvement.
Fujifilm X-T4, lens 10-24mm f4 @ 21.6mm, NISI filters CPL, 3 stop and 6 stop, 9 second exposure.
6 comments posted
You mention the rocks at lower left. I think it would be OK to crop halfway into the larger, dark rock and leave out the other two altogether. You don't need all the sand there at bottom. You could even crop some of the sky. I did a small edit just for fun, took out the lowest rock and cloned some of the darker rock to fill in. Cropped a bit. I hope this is OK that I did that. You can always work on editing other peoples' shots, too, to help them see what you mean.
Do you ever use the patch tool in Photoshop? You might have removed some of the lower left rocks that way. But all in all, I think it's lovely. I like that you used a slow exposure to get the milky look in the water. Nice !! Posted: 09/10/2023 22:52:04
