Huw: Beautiful indeed and a nice find with the varied textures and color palette. Certainly works as an intimate for me and I like that there is no obvious sense of scale. Well seen, captured and presented.>=))>
This almost looks like wood with the colour tones and textures. Quite a colour splash with the rust and ochre and mustard shades. Nice contrast between the prominent slab and the adjoining stones.
Beautiful indeed Huw. I love the rich colors, textures and detail. This is not unlike the rock wall I frequent near Yosemite; and I wouldn’t have thought a sea wall either. (not that it matters..)
I’m going to assume your depth of field and selective focus - isolating the rust colors, was intentional. I think you used the specific aperture and focus point to allow the foreground rock to be soft, drawing further focus on the rust-colored textures. And to a lesser extent, the fall off in sharpness going deeper in to the frame. Keeping in mind, all that softer rock is of the cooler variety. And with all that, I think this actually works quite well.
The obvious comment/suggestion which surfaced in another post, was that you could use a focus stack here to get everything sharp front to back. That is, IF, that was your goal. Honestly, not sure if this would have worked as well being sharp front to back.
If it were sharp front to back, I would be inclined to crop this a little off the bottom (not a fan of the tall format. Plus, I think the bottom 25% doesn’t add much that isn’t already above.
Anyway, I’d be curious to hear your thoughts on the depth of field.
I agree the coloured area needs to be sharp the very front was a little soft so I darkened it, but I think the image is better for the fall off of focus at the back
I was on aperture priority and took at different aperture and this was the one I liked best
Wonderful colors, textures and shapes! There probably wasn’t a chance to move to the right to avoid the FG rock, but I wonder if one of the other apertures had that rock more in focus and could be composited in? For my taste, the forms cascading into the bottom of the composition and support the vertical frame.
Oxidation in its various forms is one of my favorite subjects. At a coast I’m usually heading for the junkyard or at least the dumpster.
The reason I included the OOF foreground was to emphasise the series of different adjacent blocks/rocks involved in the construction of the sea wall. There is only one with these colourings and I felt having the first on OOF throws the viewer’s eye more vigorously into the coloured rock, and the drift of focus towards the back keeps you there..
that was the creative idea - only viewers can judge whether it works.
