High Seas @ Sunset

[stubbsy]

There were monster seas today (which I almost missed - thanks Curly for the phone call) and here are a few shots taken in the fading light. ALl three shot with D2x and Nikkor 12-24 DX lens. Somehow these all have a really alien landscape feel to me. Click a pic for a larger version.

[LostDingo]

Great color Stubbsy Like the 1st the best.

The seas were like that this morning too...very violent

[Alex]

Great shots, Peter. No 2 and 3 look surreal!

Alex

[pharmer]

All good Peter, but #3 is fantastic to my eyes, lovely curves in the foreground and sensational clouds and colour in the sky

Very nice

[Mitchell]

Awesome shots Peter.
Makes me nostalgic for my evening walks along Merewether Beach or down through King Edward Park to the Ocean Baths.
Number three is my pick. You have composed it just perfectly!

[glamy]

Peter,
Very nice shots and colours. I think that considering the colours a longer exposure (with filter) might have given an even eerier feel. You lucky #@^
Gerard

[suzanneg]

Hi Peter,
Cool photos. Soothing colours against the rough sea. Works nicely.

[daniel_r]

Stubbsy, could you please stop posting fantastic images from Newcastle. It's not helping me decide if I should move there or not.



Seriously, these are excellent. It's good to see that the D2x has gone into deserving and skillful hands

It's difficult to choose, but my pick is #2 here. You've nailed it with colour, composition and sharpness.

[christiand]

Peter,

great shots
I'm just thinking; would all these shots improve with more DOF or shorter
shutter speed ?
I think that the action in the sea demands a more agressive approach which could result in more agressive results.

My 20 cents ...
CD

[stubbsy]

Thank you all for your comments.

Gerard - I left my tripod at home (it's normally in my car, but wsn't today so longer exposures were not possible)

Daniel - Newcastle is a terrible, dirty industrial city with awful drab buildings and beaches littered with rotting seaweed. Better now

Christian - I agree. These are all a bit soft. It was very overcast and these were the fastest shutter speed I could get with the light. I got no higher than F8 and I have a LOT of very blurry shots (bloody D2x).

[sirhc55]

Very nice Peter, very nice.

[the foto fanatic]

Well done, Peter. I like the way you handle your wider lenses.

#2 is my fave - love the composition.

[Geoff]

Bloody hell Peter - these are great!

A sight for sore eyes - nicely executed. Well done mate!

[Dug]

Nice stuff. Great colour.

We were supposed to get large swells and strong wind today.

It was flat as a tack.

[Zeeke]

tomorrow Dug.. http://www.seabreeze.com.au/graphs/qld.asp btw, anyone who wants a good forecast site, ive been using seabreeze for a year, they are pretty much spot on, just select the state your in, it does the major city. so.. is fairy acurate if ur living nearby..

Peter, bloody amazing images, your making me jealous, I wish i could convince someone to take me down the beach before sunrise to get some photos!!

Tim

[bindiblue]

Grat shots Peter,, love the colours, well done

Suzanne

[rokkstar]

All of these are excellent Peter.

Great work.

[ozimax]

Daniel - Newcastle is a terrible, dirty industrial city with awful drab buildings and beaches littered with rotting seaweed. Better now

It may be Stubbsy but I always have liked Newcastle as a city, it has character I feel. As a kid my brother and I used to roam around Fort Scratchley, and always remember waiting in a car queue for Stockton Ferry, and swimming at the RAAF base in summer. (Sigh) Those were the good old days...with my Kodak Instamatic camera

[radar]

Well caught Peter,

still is pretty big swells today, may try to go out to Catherine Hill Bay and see what it is like over there.

Love two and three, really nice colours and nice lines.

cheers,

André

[birddog114]

Well caught Peter,

still is pretty big swells today, may try to go out to Catherine Hill Bay and see what it is like over there.

Love two and three, really nice colours and nice lines.

cheers,

André

Andre,
Have a good swim

[radar]

Have a good swim

Hopefully, I won't get that close

[marcotrov]

Bet you that's one of the first seaspray dustings for the D2x

Lovely images Peter, colours are fantastic. I like #1 and #3, they work best for me but the crops don't seem to enhance the images to the greatest effect IMO.

As you now have rather large files to work with with the D2X (you lucky son of a 'great woman' ) I wonder if the impact of #3 could be improved by cropping the left hand frame edge all the way to meet the curving wall just hiding the 'T' section wall coming to meet it from the left. You would then have, albeit a tighter squarer crop, but a nice leading line taking the eye around to the crashing wave and on to the gorgeous skyline.

In the first one I find the extra wooden rail and metal rail on the left of the central leading rail making the foreground a little too busy. I wonder if employing a similarly tight crop as that suggested above could make the right difference i.e. move the left hand margin over to just obscuring the white corner of the left nearside rail so that the central leading rail becomes the only prominent feature leadinjg the eyes to the crashing waves and that glorious horizon, though the slight imbalance on the left handside, created by such a crop may cause a little tension.
Sorry Peter about the longwinded response but a critical look at your great images helps me reflect more on the compositional processing I get involved in myself, hope you don't mind
cheers
marco

[stubbsy]

THangs for the comments people.

Marco you lost me about halfway through

Seriously though, I think I get what you're saying and will have a go at it. I also appreciate the time and thought you put into critiques like this and generally look forward to your comments on image posts.