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Many thanks to those of you who contributed to the debate on yesterday's image, Summertime, and I was really interested in all your comments. This is the same image, but, at the suggestion of some of you, I've isolated the family at the far end of the beach. Equally, I'm sure some of you will say I've got nothing in the bottom third of the image (except the footprints), but to me this shows the scale of Luskentyre Beach and I really like the result. I hope that those who have been there will understand why I've done it. If you can be bothered, please comment or criticise as you feel fit but thanks for looking.
Ann
| Camera: | Canon EOS 60D |
| Lens: | Sigma 17-70mm F2.8-4.5DCMacroAsp.IF HSM |
| Recording media: | RAW (digital) |
| Date Taken: | 4 Jul 2012 - 3:07 PM |
| Focal Length: | 70mm |
| Aperture: | f/14 |
| Shutter Speed: | 1/320sec |
| ISO: | 100 |
| White Balance: | Auto |
| Title: | Footprints |
| Username: | 
AnnChown |
| Uploaded: | 25 Aug 2012 - 4:58 PM |
| Tags: | Beach, Harris, Isle of harris, Landscape / travel, Luskentyre Beach, Seaside |
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| Votes: | 60 |
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I like this one best it gives the feeling of having the entire beech to your self a very evocative image
Susan
Hi An
Designing a landscape image is like telling a story. You need to draw your audience into the image and direct them around to the most important elements.
Using compositional elements such as leading lines and interesting foregrounds will help to guide the viewer through the image, with this capture you are showing the isolation of the beach and done excellently, the lightness of the sky mirrors the lightness of the foreground, over all a very good seascape with the added interest of the human element.
This site is so slow today it is driving me crazy
Regards
Trev.
First and foremost your photographs should please you; anyone else's pleasure is a bonus.
That's my philosophy, I think.
This photo pleases me, though I'm not sure that I prefer it to yesterday's.
The figures are at the apex of an irregular triangle formed by the bas of the photo and the water's edges; the triangle points to the low land (island?) horizon which the man in the family group is himself photographing. The figures are prominent despite their minimal size. Interestingly, they are now almost 3-D as the now removed figures were in the full frame.
I must stop blethering on!
Regards
Bill
Quote: First and foremost your photographs should please you; anyone else's pleasure is a bonus.
That's my philosophy, I think.
This photo pleases me, though I'm not sure that I prefer it to yesterday's.
The figures are at the apex of an irregular triangle formed by the bas of the photo and the water's edges; the triangle points to the low land (island?) horizon which the man in the family group is himself photographing. The figures are prominent despite their minimal size. Interestingly, they are now almost 3-D as the now removed figures were in the full frame.
I must stop blethering on!
Regards
Bill
Thanks Bill - you can blether all you like... I'm probably the only one who's listening! 
Thanks Bill - you can blether all you like... I'm probably the only one who's listening!
Two of us then because Bill made some very interesting points, none more so than an image has to please the person that took it and if others like it then that is a bonus, I used to think when uploading an image, will this go down well but now I think so what if it doesn't.
But in your image you have nothing to worry about in my view as its a very pleasing image.
gary
The footsteps are all that the foreground needs, they suggest a fleeting human presence passing through total silence and emptiness.
I do prefer this to yesterday's. My only quibble is that I would prefer a true square crop. Square gives a lean, taut, contained feel. Not-quite-square seems a bit floppy, flabby, if that makes any sense. It probably doesn't... Anyway I'd take a slice off the left side (but maybe move that headland a wee bit further right into the picture so as not to lose it. This is a manipulation after all...)
Moira
The footprints are essential to this piece giving all the foreground interest needed and a whole lot more to the story that this image conjures up in each of our heads.
I kinda preferred yesterdays version ... but if I hadnt seen that this is great
I would also like to see this one cropped on the right side just on the right of that mound of dark sand
What a super image, so simple and very engaging IMHO Quiet and peaceful as I imagine that beach is
Hugh
I really like this Ann. The slight softness (Gaussian Blur?) and the composition works very well.
Derek
OK, after all that, can I just say that I like this a lot Ann?
Mike
I understand the irregular triangles and the expanse of beach and the footsteps in the sand but I don't think it's as strong a composition as your last. But, as stated above, it's your thoughts that count. I think you might have broken a few records of versions uploaded with yesterdays image if you'd allowed mods!
. Which Topaz effect did you use?
Dave
Well this really does work well - it certainly shows the beach itself to great effect, which I gather was your original intention.
I've certainly put in on my 'places worth seeing' list.
I do have one thought though.
Whatever happened to the other group of people and dogs in yesterdays image? I really liked them and was hoping to see them again.
When I read the comment yesterday about cropping this image to the left of your picture I knew you would arrive at a central position for the family, but I did suggest that you should break the rules of composition and you have, for me it's not better or worse, but almost as good as your original.
Luskentyre is where I would live if I had the money, so wonderful is the light across the sands here and the view to Taransay. A place to love and walk and enjoy, you've shared our secret with so many but it will always be there to see differently through our own eyes.
Dougie
Quote: A fine composition but after careful comparison I prefer the previous upload.
Albert
Agree.
I prefer today's topazing but yesterday's comp.
The vastness also needs the width.
Smashing shot Ann, even a splash of Red in the Sand.
The Woman has lovely long Legs by the way ( That's me paying attention to detail)
John
I like it, kind of reminds me of castaways .......isolation and all that. YOU like it that's the main thing, I like it, seems a lot more like it also.....
John
I like both a lot, Ann, but if I had to choose only one to have on my wall then it would be yesterday's.
Today's is no less better, just different. You get away with the large expanse of fg sand due to its borders which converge at the group. Any other shape to the sand wouldn't work. The small size of the people also tell us a lot about the scale and distances here.
Malc
I'm glad you left the bottom, as you already know I hadn't realised those brown things were footprints! Even more important now
But AAARGH...I can't decide which I prefer. I thought it would be easy. I thought it would be the previous one without a thought. BUT...I love the sharpness of the people here and that churned up sand bit with the red thing.
I'm not gonna keep looking back and forth otherwise my head is gonna explode...lol
I will say this: As an art card - and still thinking along Vettriano lines - to me, this works better.
Feels like I'm betraying the other image, though
Andrew
Go with your gut feelings Ann - if you like it that's good enough. Yesterdays image was far superior. A photo's not made of triangles and thirds that's all photo babble on a par with painting by numbers. I will await the letterbox image that the original image was crying out for.
Are you sure that is footprints - strange pattern.
Brian.
An excellent minimalistic beachscape, you've conveyed the feeling of vast open space so well
Quote: First and foremost your photographs should please you; anyone else's pleasure is a bonus.
That's my philosophy, I think.
This photo pleases me, though I'm not sure that I prefer it to yesterday's.
The figures are at the apex of an irregular triangle formed by the bas of the photo and the water's edges; the triangle points to the low land (island?) horizon which the man in the family group is himself photographing. The figures are prominent despite their minimal size. Interestingly, they are now almost 3-D as the now removed figures were in the full frame.
I must stop blethering on!
Regards
Bill
Ann, I am not usually one to simply quote another member but Bill has put this so succinctly. I do like this image.
-=\Walter
The simplicity of this is so pleasing and restful to the eye. This is the sort of image one could look at for a long time and relax the mind. The composition is very sophisticated and quite beautifully done.
I actually prefer it over the previous for its sense of space and freedom. It gives the mind and eye places to go without being boxed in.
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