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An Evening Surf
© chris_f2005
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Uploaded: 08/20/10 3:02 AM GMT
An Evening Surf
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Just coming in off the waves of Zonten Beach, El Salvador which is some of the best surf in all of Central America. Enjoy!
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::BosNana
08/20/10 3:22 PM GMT
Wow! I can feel the heat of the sunshine! Nice sharp picture!
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Thanks Madeline! It was a consistent 85 there so not too bad!
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“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”
The sharp focus on the surf is the show stealer here. Well done.
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some pictures say a thousand words... others speak silently to the soul
Very well done, looks like a surfers paradise. =^..^=sandi♥
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Nature in all her glory is my uplift on life and so is my love of photography.
sandi ♪ ♫
It is a surfer's paradise! Surf, eat, and sleep (in that order)...that's Zonten Beach. I'm hoping to visit again during Spring Break in April :-)
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“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”
An interesting composition, and I do like the focal point of the surfer returning after a presumably successful stint cresting the waves!
The camera has evidently struggled to cope with the enormous glare of the strong sunlight on the white surf. You have done very well to control it as much as you have, but it has been at the expense of colour in the vegetation and hillside beyond. I would suggest in Photoshop Elements lassooing the greenery to isolate it from the surf and then tweaking its levels a little, maybe in combination with 1-2% increased saturation.
I also can't help wondering why you chose to have so much dark area on the left of the frame when perhaps less of that and more of the sea to the right would have heightened the interest - I assume there were too many distractions / obstacles to the composition?
Overall a nice shot, and the "draw" of the surf is well depicted.
The camera has evidently struggled to cope with the enormous glare of the strong sunlight on the white surf. You have done very well to control it as much as you have, but it has been at the expense of colour in the vegetation and hillside beyond. I would suggest in Photoshop Elements lassooing the greenery to isolate it from the surf and then tweaking its levels a little, maybe in combination with 1-2% increased saturation.
I also can't help wondering why you chose to have so much dark area on the left of the frame when perhaps less of that and more of the sea to the right would have heightened the interest - I assume there were too many distractions / obstacles to the composition?
Overall a nice shot, and the "draw" of the surf is well depicted.
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I much appreciate all the comments I receive about my images, but please excuse me if I don't always reply. My interest in Caedes is exceeding my time available!
Thanks Kevin for the helpful advice! I'm working with a MAC and haven't got Photoshop yet so I don't have a lassooing feature to do that. I included the stone wall mainly because I liked it so much and it really helped authenticate the location of the shot giving it a rustic feel that you don't usually get in surfing pictures. In typical surfing shot, you have the surfer riding the these amazing blue breaking waves with these awesome blue ocean in the background. The focus of this one is more on the surfer coming out of the water and entering this poor village on the coast of El Salvador. I wanted to make sure that the main focus was on the surfer and the village. I wasn't particular interested in the water on this shot plus as you added the glare was bad enough as is.
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“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”