Simple Baja Rocks, Beach and Water

Great place to be

Thanks for the comments. Yes, I was playing around with different shutter speeds and other settings for some different effects. Trying to learn more about my camera. Isn't digital great? One can take hundreds of pictures and then spend HOURS on the computer sorting through them.

Here are a couple more from that day that I sort of like.








Oh, these were taken in front of our home---watching water change sure is better than watching TV, IMHO.

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Beautiful. Looking forward to many more.

Thanks to both of you----glad you enjoyed them.

Nena, when I processed that one you like the best I could not believe it---there was a big old ugly plastic bottle in the pix that I did not see---thank goodness for the clone tool .

Diane

These are beautiful Diane!! Thanks,
++Ken++
PS why the changed avatar? I love your posts and watched like a hawk (an osprey?) for the old one

Thanks, always appreciate the C&C and links---so many good places to learn and I love looking at places where the best display their work. Since I do not intend to stay home long enough to attend any classes, the internet is my teacher.

I took these a while before sunset and there was a very heavy cloud cover, but it still probably should be less light---having fun experimenting. And while I love some of the really slow water action, at times I also like the water stopped with a very fast shutter speed.

I am finding this whole new hobby very interesting. It is like the newer HDR---at first I really disliked it, and now I am beginning to appreciate it, especially some of the way over the top ones that look more like impressionistic paintings.

Always appreciate your input.

Diane

On edit---yes you did send me that site before, but thanks for sending it again. I bookmarked it on my other computer at home and did not have it on this computer. Now I do---thanks

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Diane,

When I first started to visit that website I was really turned off by the slow shutter speed images. And I voiced my opinion (you know me by now :lol. Some agreed but many did not. I paid no heed and stayed with my outlook.

Anyway, as I looked longer over time, I changed my mind. I saw some really beautiful creative camera work done with that technique. I still feel too many rivers and waterfalls are shot that way needlessly. And some seascapes look like ground fog because of the shutter speed.

Basically if it suggests motion then it works for me. But if it looks like lace - no me gusta.

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Originally posted by Skipjack Joe Diane, When I first started to visit that website I was really turned off by the slow shutter speed images. And I voiced my opinion (you know me by now :lol. Basically if it suggests motion then it works for me. But if it looks like lace - no me gusta.

Sure glad I would never voice an opinion. Not me, by golly.

I know what you mean about the motion and about how some falls and streams, IMHO, are better in a faster speed. On some forums, people will post a few and I end up liking the one no one else likes. Oh well--

Are there any of the HDR that you like? AT first, I just thought they all looked like over processing or cartoons, but it is growing on me, especially the ones that go way over the top and no longer look just over processed, but like a different art form.

Most of this guy's stuff is over the top and like I said, at first I thought no way---now some of it I love.

HRD --- by colorjunkie

He posted the Brent rigging the Rapel on another forum and I ended up seeing it like a piece of modern art and love it.

I do want to find out more about the process, I think.