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Published: 2004-11-04 08:46:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 1721; Favourites: 55; Downloads: 479
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Just trying to capture some aesthetics of rock and water. Did a little different (well for me anyways) curve adjustment to try and bring out the texture of the rocks... boosting some midtones, deepening the darker tones tones and keeping the brighter ones from blowing out. That's one of the advantages of monochrome in my opinion, you get a lot more creative leeway with how you can work the tonalities in an image. Shot with my *istD and 50mm SMC-A 2.0 lens.Related content
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they dont seem like they belong there....too round for the ocean... beautiful
::mike
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excellent work!!! i really like the way you have capture the mountains in the back
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I adore that shot! I love that it's mostly of the rocks, and it's got the small tease of water.
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I like it! I wish the contrast was stronger personally, but I like it nontheless.
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The gradiation of the sky looks fantastic, but the texture of the rocks is really what caught my eye.
Fantastic job.
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wow dont know much about rearrenging pictures bu this one got my eye and its amezing, nice!!!!!
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Hold on while I pick my jaw off the floor....
Wow....
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Again very nice indeed. Well done man, all your new shots are looking good.
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wonderful photo, as usual. but I'm still waiting for the time when you're going to take that on medium format b/w film
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I'm shooting large format b/w right now, though it's a much longer process with having to develop it, get it scanned, and so on. But maybe someday I'll actually get something posted here
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I hope so
hope you have a good laboratory or develope it at home. The standard labs ruined my first 2 b/w films because they used allround developer instead of the developer specialized for the film
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woo ns... u made the oridinery stones at the shore look so beautiful and moody... luv how u have the bkgd of a mtn sa well.. kinda like saying "one day the lil stones will become the big mtn"
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God is in the detail and You have captured God on celluloid perfectly.
the rocks seems to be from some distant planet and the water looks like the surface, reminds me of the movie Red Planet. Very very detailed work from you.
chris
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Depth was a most appropriate title. It feels as if you could reach out and touch the rocks.
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very nice shot bro, love the texture of the water and tone a lot !
well done !
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this is so great, im not going to begin stating the great points of it, i am sure you are already aware. Wonderful!
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Beautiful, Arthur...the textures are nice, subtle, yet noticeable, nice tones and contrasts, love the flow and love the composition, the water motion is wonderful.
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This pic has other worldly qualities to it. Also it feels lonely, desolate and sad. Not that that's a bad thing. 
Sincerely
Carol
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it seems as if you touch the stones, they look somehow alive.
the tones are incredible.
love it!
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Beautiful tones 
It looks like there's two different worlds.. this side of the water with it's very real solid hard rocks and the other side with it's softness and mystery. I get this feeling of longing from the stones. It's like they want to go there, but can't move over the water.
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That's Lake Tahoe, isn't it? Those rocks are *so* fun to climb on and explore, and they look like giant pebbles.
I disagree with *nyssi . Where I live, half the year the sky is eternally dark grey with clouds. In late spring when the sky starts being blue sometimes, it seriously looks wierd. Anyway, when clouds are out they have a limiting effect on the sky, because you can only see a few thousand feet up. If they were present in this picture, they would only give a cramped feeling. The picture's name is "Depth". The giant pebble-boulders are right there, and they contrast with looking way out across the water to see the distant shadow-mountains, which blend into the sky, which leads off into infinity.. the depth is the emphasis of distance and space. So, no clouds.
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Thank you. Yes, it is Tahoe. And yes, I much feel the way you do, the "depth" here for me had a lot to do with being able to see off forever into the empty sky
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beautiful work. its always great to see your work, its amazing
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I agree with your thoughts. I think you captured the texture of the rocks beautifully and the tone of the image really gives it a nice distinctiveness from the millions of other nature photos. Nice work.
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i like the texture of the rocks, and how the water looks like black ink. the mountians in the background also add something to the horizon, so its not just a boring straight line. nice job, again
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gorgeous tones
gorgeous composition
what a great capture!
awesome work.
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youve created some excellent depth. great textures on the rocks and im really enjoying the horizon line and sky.
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Really good one! MORE!!!
I faved nearly 99% of your work
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Beautiful, emphasized textures. From the thumbnail the water looked like it was a stretch of desert sand, which made the sight of water made it even more surprising. The contrast and tonality is gorgeous as well.
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the stones almost look edible
am i going crazy
lovely work
the tones are amazgin
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The different texture mixed together are great ... makes me want to sit on the rocks and put my feet in the water.
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I quite agree when you say that monochrome is better to work with creatively. It's a lot easier to work with, if you're adjusting the curves or even just the brightness and contrast. With colour photography, theres always the risk of blowing out the colours, which can ruin a piece easily.
Anyway, to the shot itself. The monochrome with the slight colour toning looks fantastic. You've done quite an impressive job in bringing out the tones and textures of every single aspect of the shot, particularly the rocks and the water. About the water, I actually first through it was sand, then I thought to myself "No, it looks like water, can't be sand" but it's amazing how it made me first thing of sand. I think because you've captured it at a precise moment which has frozen in it. It actually gives me weird feelings looking at it, especially around the bottom area where it's lapping up near the rocks.
While I quite like the shot, I'm not sure I like the composition so much. It seems confined and cramped. I think if there were a bit more space between the rocks and the right edge, the cramped feeling would be realised. I think personally, a landscape shot would have worked a little better than portrait. This is just my opinion, though.
The lighting is fantastic. I love the direction of light coming from the right, just shining on the rocks. Add's a nice highlight to the image but it doesn't overpower the rest of it. It casts some interesting shadows. You know what would have made this shot? Clouds in the sky. But you can't predict these things.
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Thank you for the thoughtful commentary. I know what your saying about the clouds, but I've actually got other shots of similar scenes with clouds and I liked this one for the empty feeling of the sky. Hey, don't get me wrong though, I still like clouds
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this is really good and amazing photo
I love the depth of the photo it makes it really good
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Amazin.... just fantastic.... so deep and inspiaring.... :w00p!:
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absolutely wonderful !!
the texture of the rocks is very nice
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