Wide Tide Pool
This Harling Point tide pool has previously graced my blog, with long exposures and a 50mm lens. Last weekend I was down there again at a good low tide with the 24mm lens on the camera. Here are a couple of shots by way of comparison. It is interesting to compare with the 50mm shots how much Trial Island recedes into the distance and how much tide pool comes to dominate as the subject of the photo.
I like both (overall I prefer the top image of the long exposures on the other post linked above), but for these wide-angle shots I especially like the oily pool in the lower left foreground that is not present at all in the 50mm shots. Of today’s two pictures I prefer the b&w – better sky and the converging lines in the bedrock foreground somehow go well with the sky.
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Canon EOS 5D MkII, Nikkor-N Auto 24mm, f2.8 lens at ISO 100. Top image ca f8, 1/125th. Bottom image ca f8, /100th.
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I like the B&W pic better, too. It seems very intense and dramatic in comparison to the color.
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Hi Holly – thanks for the commen
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Nicely captured.
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Thank you Eden. And welcome to my blog, I hope to see you around some more.
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the top one is almost meanacing in its atmospheric effect! I love it.
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Hi Gillian – thanks so much. A bit menacing, weather-wise, but it was quite a while before it got nasty, though that is hardly surprising given the regular series of nasty storms we have had this month.
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Love the B&W one here, what great drama you’ll pulled out of this scene my friend!
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Thank you Toad, it was there waiting for me 🙂
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What a beautiful spot. The sky/clouds are amazing. I like the contrast in both photos, but of course, the B&W shows that off very effectively. The texture in the rocks is very cool!
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This area is constantly changing, but often has really great skies. The rocks are wonderful, as you can see in many of my pictures.
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While the colour version is good, I prefer the B&W. Sometimes landscapes are just meant to be in B&W and to me, this is one such instance. 😀
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Hi David – I agree. Though maybe I should have posted the colour version of the top photo as a better match. I really think the shapes in the rocks in the foreground, many of which are not visible in the colour photo, make a lot of difference.
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I also prefer the B&W shot to the color, but both are really quite nice. The sky is a little more dramatic in B&W, maybe that’s the reason for my preference. The 50mm does seem sharper, but it’s difficult to tell on web resolution reproduction.
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Hi Ken, the 50mm is little bit sharper. I think it is partly the light and shadows giving it a bit more definition, not to mention the tripod. I grew up learning that 1/100th or 1/125th handheld should not matterat shorter focal length, but I do notice that the tripod does seem to help. Perhaps (oh no!) my grip is getting more shaky and uncertain as I age and its showing.
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I love the way you use different formats and in past posts, your use of cropping, Mr E. Black and white wins for me almost everytime.
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Hi Katherine – I like the way you typed that, looks like I a Mr. E. Black. And I could be, eh? I often crop – some say that it shows poor composition through the eyepiece, but I don’t have a zoom lens and rarely carry a telephoto, so sometimes I just have to shoot with the idea of cropping, and the camera has great resolution so can withstand quite a bit of it, at least for web purposes. Other times its a case of discovering something in a photo that, with cropping, is really nice, and which I did not see when taking the picture. Those are nice little finds, surprises. But, I still have to see them in order to crop them, so take a bit of credit for them as well.
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Always interesting to compare shots. The clarity of the 50mm shot from a previous post is, in my mind, the best overall. But the B&W wide-angle undoubtedly has a moodyness and a sense of drama that the others lack. The weather can make or break images – nice to find a view to return to like this
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Thanks Andy. The light was better for the 50mm shot, and it was on a tripod of course being 20 second exposure if I recall correctly. Returning to this tidepool has been accidental. It’s only a few minutes from my house in an area I often go to with my camera, and sometimes I discover all conditions are good for a shot of it – tide being the necessary first condition as often this place is under water.
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