Horizon(tal)
I was waiting for a foggy day to make some very simple pictures of the sea and sky. This railing was the unexpected bonus from the outing; it is part of a shiny new structure on a higher overlook. This is the beginning of a new series of abstracts from this morning of fog.
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Canon EOS 5D MkII, Canon 50mm/f1.4 lens, ISO800, f8, 1/1,000th Processed in Lightroom 4 and Topaz B&WEffects.
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I have no idea what exactly I am looking at – but then I don’t care anyway. This is just a gorgeous flush of colour, beautifully graduated. More, more!
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Hi Andy, and thank you! There are more after this post, but the time that I am writing, which is quite a bit later, I am running out of this series. On the horizontal that is.
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Beautiful work, it does press the mind to ask what is going on here.
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Hi Karen. I would like to try this idea at sunrise, for instance, and in other conditions, with the horizon substituted like this. Could be interesting.
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Oh, this is very good! I like how the only hint that we are looking at a railing is the rough connection on the right hand side and I am glad you left that in the shot. The roughness, plus the tiniest bit of curve make the overall shot a lot more interesting. I also like how the railing marks the sharp change in color. This is the same railing from yesterday’s post, isn’t it?
Looking forward to seeing the rest of this series.
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Hi Melinda. I played with how much to leave in the shot, taking that stuff out, but finally putting it back into the shot for the reasons you mention. A bit of context.
It *is* yesterday’s railing, and it is lined up with the horizon so that the change from ocean to sky coincides with the line of the rail, but out of sight. I liked how it looked, even in the more washed out grey and greyish blue tones prior to processing. You can see a hint of a point of land at the far end of Ross Bay on the left side under the rail, and if you squint along the horizon in the middle you can see traces of the foggy reflections of Trial Island as a darker smudge in that area.
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It actually was that tiny piece of Ross Bay that looked familiar, because we’d talked about it on your other post.
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Ah! Now I see. There must be other clues too, but that was enough for a sharp eye. No crow toes in this shot.
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Nice minimal piece. I like the gradiation of color.
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Thank you Mark. The gradation comes with the horizon change from sea to sky, which is hiding behind the pipe.
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Sync is right, this is excellent. These minimalist shots are among my favorites,
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Thank you Ken! There is some of you in this shot, such reducing the clarity a lot – that idea comes from something you said. And the simplicity of much of your work is inspiring to me too.
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I think it’s a natural inclination to push the clarity slider to the right to increase (apparent) sharpness. Photos with a lot of detail are usually improved doing that but not in every case, like this one.
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I like this… Looking forward to the whole series 🙂
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Thanks littleislander. This is perhaps the best of the lot, but I there are others that came out quite well.
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Excellent piece of minimalism, Ehpem.
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Thanks Ashley!
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