One From Yesturday

Matt Harper · 22 Jun 2006 at 23:16

Hey all.

Since it was my day off yesturday, I went to Spurn Point to take some photos. Spurn Point is a very unique place in the British Islands. Three and a half miles long and only fifty metres wide in places. One of the most striking features of Spurn is the black and white lighthouse near to the end of Spurn. Now just an empty shell not used since it was closed down at dawn on the thirty first of October 1986.

D70, 10-20mm Sigma @10mm, F13, 1/15th

Cheers,

Matt.

hoodmeister · 22 Jun 2006 at 23:31

Excellent, I really like it :cool:

The grasses are maybe a wee bit soft, and the sand in the immediate foreground has fallen OOF - but a shot like this is always a fight with DoF, so they're both minor quibbles really.

Composition is spot on.

Matt Harper · 22 Jun 2006 at 23:43

hoodmeister said:
Excellent, I really like it

The grasses are maybe a wee bit soft, and the sand in the immediate foreground has fallen OOF - but a shot like this is always a fight with DoF, so they're both minor quibbles really.

Composition is spot on.

Thanks, it was pretty windy too, when i got up of the sand there was a mound where it had blow against me :eek:

Lostkat · 23 Jun 2006 at 06:31

I like the composition of this shot, and the texture of the sand in the foreground. The colours look really off for me though. It has a pretty bad yellow cast on my monitor, like it's been taken on the wrong white balance setting.

Matt Harper · 23 Jun 2006 at 08:46

Lostkat said:
I like the composition of this shot, and the texture of the sand in the foreground. The colours look really off for me though. It has a pretty bad yellow cast on my monitor, like it's been taken on the wrong white balance setting.

Cheers, had a quick play:

nomore · 23 Jun 2006 at 09:26

I really like the 2nd version. The clouds and diffused saturation make it look kind of grungy. It's a shame the sand at the bottom of the photo is slightly out of focus. Maybe having the camera closer to the ground could have added more impact and given a sense of scale... if we could see grains of sand more harshly etc.

Great job though.

Mohain · 23 Jun 2006 at 10:27

Very nice Matt, prefer the second edit.

brocksta · 23 Jun 2006 at 11:31

great pic, personally i prefer the first one, as the second one has lost the colour of the sky which i really liked.

cyKey · 23 Jun 2006 at 11:44

Ooooh definetly the new edit. The clouds have more power now.

hoodmeister · 23 Jun 2006 at 11:47

Clouds are crisper and contrastier in the second, but I prefer the warm cast of the first.

DannyDan · 23 Jun 2006 at 16:55

I like it, the 2nd one is far more striking.