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This rather sombre image has been deliberately adjusted in PSE10 Levels to convey an impression of a moonlit scene (as opposed to a sunlit one, which it was), and shows North Berwick from the west-facing harbour wall. Shot at 1/1000, f11, ISO 160 @ 14mm, the small aperture has resulted in reasonable DoF from foreground to horizon. The pinpoints of light just visible in the top right-hand corner, where the shore meets the sea, are in fact reflections from parked cars, but here fortuitously suggest street lighting, thus hopefully adding to the 'night time' effect.
Just like they used to do in the B movies of yesteryear.
| Camera: | Panasonic Lumix DMC-G3 |
| Lens: | LUMIX G VARIO 14-45/F3.5-5.6 |
| Recording media: | RAW (digital) |
| Title: | Lobster pots |
| Username: | 
KingBee |
| Uploaded: | 15 May 2012 - 7:56 AM |
| Tags: | Black & white, Digitally manipulated, Landscape / travel |
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Dave (Ugly), I think you may have a point. That said, as much as I do play with images sometimes just for the fun of it, or to make a particular aspect less boring, I didn't want to manipulate the image to the extent that I was shifting the overall balance in favour of one part of the scene over another, because it wouldn't have been natural. The lobster pots look the way they do because that's how they were shot. I have only changed the overall lighting. As for the title, well, most viewers of my uploads should know me by now ........ 
That's me done with explanations for today.
This works for me as a composition. The pots seem to be looking out over the water and we are following their 'gaze'. So it is about them.
A subject does not need to dominate a frame, or even be the focal point in terms of perspective. I like my images to be oblique, suggestive. Which probably breaks some rule or another, but is more likely to make the brain and imagination work and less likely to be boring.
Moira
The clouds belie the 'night time' feel for me, but as a high contrast mono sea scape it works very well. I like the lobster pots and the light coming off them. A well worked composition and great image.
Dave
This appeals to me very strongly.
I 'marked down' the unseen poem in my A-Level English Lit exam because I reckoned the title was only partially relevant; having dropped a grade, I soon saw the error of my ways - that kind of crit is often somewhere it's better not to go. This is mood music rather than a factual description; if the clouds are perhaps a little fanciful - so what ?
Regards
Bill
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