The beach north of Morro Rock is wide, flat, expansive, and popular. The late afternoon found the beach still filled with families and kids playing in the water. Definitely a great beach!
Tag: wide-angle
Left Over from Last Year
Postcard from the Garden of the Gods
This is another photo, taken last year at the Garden of the Gods Park outside of Colorado Springs. The rock formations are wonderful; at times, the drama of the sky is amazing as the Garden abut the Rocky Mountains. The day I took this picture, though, the sky was flat and colorless. Thus . . . I used a sky out of extras in PPS9, and refined the edges using the Perfect Brush, the Refine Brush, and the Chisel tool. Once done, back to LR and a VSCO preset with adjustments to reduce color and work until the colors worked together. For me, the best results were somewhat odd, but in looking at them, they became to resemble post cards from the 50s and 60s because of the colors – not quite right, but expressive of the environment. Rather pleased with this one.
Lilttle Red Flower
Done with a Vivitar 28mm Wide Angle Close Focus lens.
Tumalo Creek
Outside of Bend, Oregon, is Tumalo Creek and Falls. We went there on our last night in Oregon, before heading home. It was a spontaneous trip, so I just threw the camera bag in the car, not taking a tripod. I should have as the light was fading quite rapidly. Everything I did was handheld, or precariously propped up on a railing.
There is always something about blurred water in photography that attracts me. I can hear the water by looking at it. This blur, in contrast to sharp silhouettes of trees or plants against the water, is always an eye-catcher.
None of these pictures particularly pleased me. I was using the Tokina 11-16, which is a very wide-angled lens. These are far harder to use well than what you might think. Composition is really difficult. At the falls, it was particularly difficult because of the perspective and falling light. There were a couple of other photographers there – with tripods! – who probably did a much better job than I did.
Pulling these out, a couple of months after our trip, I did a bit of cropping and other post-processing, but mostly I was considering the composition, and how a poorly composed picture may be improved by judicious cropping. Not so sure if it worked, but what I did learn was a little more about composition! Cropping something into a square is far more challenging than a rectangle . . .
Ink, Yarn & Beer 