Challenge:Calendar (Advanced Editing II) Camera:Nikon D70 Location: Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia Date: Nov 7, 2004 Aperture: f10 ISO: 200 Shutter: 1/250 Galleries:Landscape, Water Date Uploaded: Nov 7, 2004
The Pier, a well known landmark in Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia. Believe it or not its windy, stormy and raining for 2 days and there are dark clouds building again and I wish I had some in this shot :( Always the way!
The rocks really dominate this composition. THe pier less so - in fact it is quite hard to tell what it is initially. The sky is quite featureless and flat and the light isn't the best either - feels like it was shot around mid-day - giving you the very harsh shadows and dark areas in the rocks and pier.
I think this location probably has some potential - on a day with some more interesting cloud forms and later or earlier in the day when the light is better. Around 1 hour before and after sunset and sunrise are great times to shoot landscape shots - the light is beautiful, the shadows aren't so harsh - depending which way this pier faces would help determine the best time though - you want some light on the side of the pier.
Composition Issues:
The horizon doesn't feel straight - this can be quite easily fixed using the skew transform in something like photoshop to tweak it to horizontal. It seems like a little thing but it can be quite distracting.
Horizon placement - it isn't quite along the top third, floating somewhere between there and splitting the middle of the frame - I think with the almost total lack of sky in this shot, I'd have placed it quite agressively high in the shot - maybe even only about 2% of the scene as blue sky, just by tilting the camera down - and probably getting myself to a higher position if possible.
Rock/ sand/ sea composition. The rocks merge with the sea and sand - particularly the two that poke 'up' A slightly higher viewpoint would have had the rocks surrounded by the sand, making them stand out more strongly as a main element in the composition (blue/grey against orange/yellow sand, rather than blue/grey rocks against the blue/grey sea)
Pier - it certainly can make for a strong leading line element - though I think you need to be slightly to the left and shooting more 'in' to the pier for that to work - here it forms a strong vertical line on the right that doesn't really lead off and then further out in the distance starts to lead in to the scene.
Hi greetings from the CC, the horizon seems a bit crooked, I am not sure if I like the perspective here, with the rocks and all, I think I would like to see more of the pier. Something to keep in mind is that the horizon is generally more interesting when it is not dead center. I find the elements of your shot pull at me, the rocks to the bottom the pier to the left and yet I dont really have a focal point. The blues are really nice however, and the grey tones in the rock. Hope that helps a little
Nice shot, good viewpoint, but and its a big but in a seascape, the horizon is not level, its slightly down at the right. I said good viewpoint but I think it could have been better if we could see more of the curve of the bridge / jetty / pier? Also it leads the eye out there and then there's nothing to see, no focal point in the distance, because the bridge / jetty / pier is not the focal point out there. Nice colours and textures on the rocks, well done a five from me.
Nice shot! As I'm looking at it, I'm finding myself wondering what it woud have looked like if you were a few steps to the left where we could have seen more of the pier. 7
Aussie spring in november? now that i didn't know.. I like the colors and subject mater of this shot. I don't care for the peir on the right of the screen it distracts from the best features of the photo imho. Perhaps a differnt angle would have eased the pull to the close up part of the peir...
I think I would have liked this photo more if the camera were a little more to the left and I could see the symmetry of the bridge pylons. But still nice.
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