The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.
Description
This is Crook Point on the southern Oregon coast, taken from the parking lot of the Cape Sebastian viewpoint..
This was one of those times where I was working with limitations. It was bright morning light, a cloudless sky, and I needed a longer lens to get rid of some of the empty space. In the end I just rolled with what was there.
Specific Feedback
Does the purposeful inclusion of empty space work for you here?
I played with black and white, but found I liked the pastel blue better. Does the soft color work okay here?
Technical Details
NIKON Z 7II
NIKKOR Z 24-200 f/4-6.3 VR at 200 mm
1/640 sec. at f/8. and ISO 64
Wow!! This works for me beautifully! I generally don’t care for empty space but this isn’t what I would even call empty space – to me it’s more just a lovely relaxed composition, which well suits the soft, soothing presentation. The high key and cool palette fits so well. 11/10!
I’m with Diane, John. I like the pastel quality, which feels very nautical to me. I also like the emptiness above the horizon and the almost placid foreground sea. Combined with your title, the composition works really well. Perhaps you envisioned more drama or something? But there is nothing to be disappointed in here. You did well with the scene as it was.
FWIW, it has an Andrew Wyeth quality to it. I often feel that way when the color palette is like this. Very nice.
ML
This all works for me, John. You managed to turn that bright morning light into something amazingly soft and mellow which works very nicely for this scene.
I think you worked the scene rather well here. The soft light and fog give an etherial feel to the image. Compositionally I was having a hard time wrapping my head around it, there are so many interesting parts to the image, the grouping of rocks in the water, the white wave crests below the land mass, the fog in the foreground, and the subtle blue water ( agree with your decision to keep this color). I think the element that I was originally not liking was the long land mass and I was trying to crop off a lot of it from the left, but I liked the waves below it, and I eventually thought maybe cropping off the fog and the bottom to make it a more panoramic proportion that accentuates the line of that land mass. But even as-is there is a lot going on in the image, even the “empty space” adds to the image.
John, this looks great. The gentle blues add to a fine feeling of quiet dreaminess. I also like your high-key approach. The subtle details in the foreground keep it interesting. The subtle colors in the details and the overall scene remind me of a painting.
I love it – as is, empty space, the blueness and everything else. It’s a soft and quiet image and makes me want to be on the coast by the sea. Nice work and no nits from me.
Hi John,
It probably would not have occurred to me to take my camera out during these harsh lighting conditions, but I sure am glad that you did as this is wonderful. I like the minimalistic approach for this image as well as the high key look and subdued cool color palette. I am really enjoying the soft peaceful vibe of this image. My only suggestion; and this is more of a personal preference rather than a critique; would be to reduce the vignette in the upper right and left corners. Beautifully done!
