I like the consistent repetitive curves of the longer grass against the water. Otherwise, it's sort of tangled and disorganized nearer the foreground. Also, that OOF growth (?) at the center bottom of the frame doesn't add. Looks chilly and breezy.
Jack Jack --- On Wed, 12/3/08, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: PESO -- Beach Grass > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 8:54 AM > The reason: My eye was attracted by the specular > highlights from the interaction of the waves and the grass. > So I took a number of varying exposures to try and capture > them. > > The result: Not a single image has those highlights, nor > do they seem to be recoverable by any manipulation in the > Raw converter or Photoshop. > > Still this image has a bit of interest. Well I like it > anyway. > > http://home.earthlink.net/~morephotos/PESO%20--%20beachgrass.html > > Equipment: Pentax *ist-Ds/smc Pentax F 70-210mm f3.8-5.6 > > Additional Bonus Rant: This image also shows the hazards > of resizing for the web. The Pentax F 70-210 is very sharp > and captures more detail than the 6mp sensor in the > *ist-D[x] cameras can record, yet in the web photo > everything looks a bit blurred. True there was a bit of > wind moving the grass, but some was stationary and very > sharp in the full size image, here none of it is. > As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored. > > -- > You get further with a kind word and a gun, than with a > kind word alone. > --Al Capone. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
