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Published: 2008-12-02 19:24:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 1760; Favourites: 43; Downloads: 0
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Shot on the same evening as Portwrinkle Beach and Miracle .Named after the song, Coming Back to Life by Pink Floyd.
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Thank you mate 
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Oh that sounds exciting 
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it never fails to find a beautiful beach scene in your gallery to cheer me up!
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Amazing shot.Everything is so simple and so beautiful.The clouds in the background,light on the crag and the sea that is everywhere and still not the centre of the picture!!!!!
Everything is very well composed,landscape is great and you captured it perfectly!!!!!
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That is such a wonderful comment, thank you so much - I really appreciated it
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It was my pleasure,thank you for a wonderful photo,makes me feel good
And I'm really glad it meant something to you
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Yeah, it really did. It's comments like that that I find inspirational. 
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This work has been featured on my journal [link] 
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YAY!!! 
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You're most welcome my friend
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I love that song very much! one of my faves. the photo gives the impression of the song back in a pretty good way
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Thank you Renata, this is one of my favourite songs too
I don't think this photo bears much resemblance to what's going on in the song, but both make me feel hopeful and that's why I think the title works
Thanks for the 
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It made me think of the song because on the album cover there is a similar photo for the song too
but pretty cool
and no prb!
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Hehe, yeah, and one of them is resusitating the other
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yeah hehe
i jst love pink floyd, they made pretty great music. and the guitar parts in coming back to life ar just amazing!!!
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I put the song on Repeat for that reason alone!
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hehe
have you heard david gilmour's solo album, on an island?
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Not yet, but with Christmas round the corner I may ask for it
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oh you really should then
It became quite a melancholy album though, but pretty nice and calm!
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Ideal. I'll save it for a night when I've got all the lights down, TV off, feet up and I'm reading a decent book
I'll dig it up on iTunes or Napster and have a listen
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haha cool now you made me want to do such too! i havent calmed down like this in awhile. now I need to order a new book
what do you usually read?
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Oh God, there's so much... I'm reading Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire for the 3rd time; it's an old book but still better than most of the new Star Wars novels. Anything that's themed strongly around friendship really because friendship is really important to me. That's why "A Knight's Tale" is my favourite film
I love Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and Bernard Cornwell's version of the King Arthur legend; Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth saga; Robert Ludlum's Bourne Trilogy (haven't got very far through it yet!) and naturally the Harry Potter books! Yeah, I'm 35 and I still read Harry Potter
What about you?
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haha awesome, lots of british books 
I had never read any of the HP books, I watched the films hehe
I like Danielle Steel books, probably they seem girlie for guys but i like them a lot 
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My wife likes Danielle Steel and Marian Keyes, same sort of books apparently
The problem is if I tune into what I'm reading, I tune out of everything else. Are you like that?
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thats cool, she has a cool taste of books then
yeah too much, i forget about the world around me, and actually a book takes me like 2 days cos i dont put it down until im not finished. bamm. but of course it must be a good one!
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Oh yeah, you wouldn't read any old crap!
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no way, depends on. there are lots of great old books. i have many faves. dime novels also rule
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I am glad you resisted the temptation to shoot straight into the setting sun and decided to capture the reflecting sun on the rocks. a bit later that day and the shy would have a prettier hue.
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That's a good point and something I'll bear in mind in future
I still don't have any filters yet so I don't like to shoot into the sun unless there's cloud to diffuse it a little.
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x mas is near so go and buy some
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Lovely, as always!
I really can't get over the sand's detail - it's so crisp!
Beautiful shot, makes me miss the ocean.
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Hurry back to it
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9 more months before I see it again.
I'm landlocked, sadly. xD
Guess I'll just have to feel like I'm there through your pics!
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Lovly lighting mate ... crispy clear too ... love it
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Sorry for another comment, but I have to ask. Did you shoot on landscape, or aperture/shutter priority? And did you use some kind of filter or polarizer? How was the editing? Sorry abt that amount of questions but I loved the clarity and sharpness of this mate
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No problem mate, comment away!
I tend to shoot on shutter priority, and if I'm using a fast speed like 1/100sec then I'll use Burst as my shooting mode. It means my memory card gets chewed up with unwanted shots (I took over 240 photos on that evening alone just to find 4 or 5 that I liked!) but I'm able to capture a series of movements in the waves and then choose which one I like the best. The only filter I have right now is a UV filter, which doesn't even fit my lense properly and I have to hold it over. Christmas should put this right hopefully
I'm not so sure about the editing side of it because unfortunately I didn't have much to do with that but I can find out for you - I'm the first half of a symbiotic relationship when it comes to my deviations
What I do know is that the photo was reduced in size (resolution-wise) before the sharpening was done - that makes it clearer when displayed on DA, and I expect other techniques such as saturation, burning and a boost to contrast were used. Hope this helps?
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Hmmm I shoot several shots and I always have trouble choosing them later on the computer
The editing I should improve with time and trying lots of things like I'm doing now, so don't worry abt that... The thing you said abt sharpening the pics... Now that is something I didn't know, I knew it is not good to reduce the size of the pic on dA and that the pic should be resized before uploading but I didn't know that sharpening the pic before of after it would make any difference
Thanks again mate for the useful info
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No problem. You might find this article useful too [link]
If you've got Photoshop CS3 you can download an action to do it all for you
I haven't tried it myself though
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I tried the action last night and it completely screwed up! Not a happy chap!
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Again faving, man. Awesome shots on the bay. Plus, I love Pink Floyd too
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Thank you mate
I always knew you'd have good taste in music... except for that Basshunter crap
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