Recent content by SWB

Lewis and Harris, an empty whisky bottle every 200 yrds in the ditch by the road, a sea mist and the beaches glow, visit the old sites, industrial or neolithic. Look overhead for golden eagles.

I don't think you should need to look at anybody's super images to learn, it's in front of you.

Something offered when a photograph isn't in focus or the camera is moving, get rid of one or the other and my comment is redundant.

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I think that for 'rocks and surf' something, usually the rocks, needs to be differentiated or in focus. But the light is stunning. If you just went wild with this and did the whole Pictorialist thing of soft focus and split toning it could look amazing.

The second may have been the better B&W image but I'm not sure either is super. I'm not saying you can't do it the wave thing, but ask yourself is it an image that you record on a day out, or a special image?

Nice light, maybe bend the knees to reduce mid-ground and give a bit more sky?

Very nice, love the light in the background although I think it could have been a tad lighter. But is the horizon straight?

Undecided, a nice idea but with these long dreamy exposures something in them has to look like it's tack sharp as the counterbalance. Maybe a little more contrast around the rocks would help?

Potential, but it looks like all mid-tones to me, some more contrast will bring out the drama and the colours.

Neither of them look sharp, is it camera shake or you've focused too far towards the background? Or maybe considering the angle you balanced the camera on a rock? I think potentially the second one has something going for it with the swirl of foam in the foreground, but the trees need some...

Well the tree will be pointing at the viaduct whichever way it is edited, that wasn't my point. It is that if the trunk under the water is emphasised more in post processing it looks more like the pointy bit is part of a bigger thing coming out of the water to point at the viaduct. But as you...

As getting out the door seems to be the problem has nobody considered taking inspiration from still life photographers such as Edward Weston or John Blakemore or maybe reading a book about photography or a particular photographer? Indecision or lack of ideas often come from trying to work in...

I think there is a lot of potential in the image, but it's such a small file size it's hard to pull it out. The tree snaking under the surface of the water is the important thing and I think this needs to be emphasised.

The images are under exposed by a lot and I wonder if you are adamant that they should be un-manipulated you have maybe turned a few too many things off in your camera settings. For example I have had a look and the softness can be corrected by sharpening them and they come out as...