beach – Page 6

Deck Chairs

I always like this image from my early digital days. Unfortunately, the file leaves little to work with. Even here on the web, the poor quality is apparent.

Leaf

I must also have discovered the saturation slider in Photoshop around this time.

Fucus

Judging by the light, this one, and probably the jellyfish too, were shot later that afternoon.

Jellyfish

Another mangled jpeg from that morning on the beach.

The 2MP Kodak was really a family camera. But one morning at the beach I woke up early and couldn’t get back to sleep. I took the camera down to the beach around dawn and re-awakened my dormant love of photography. You can see how crunchy the file is: 2 MP jpeg to start with and I probably sharpened the hell out of the original, not knowing any better.

Stream

Storm Comin’

A last shot on the beach as we pack up to leave, coincidentally as tropical storm Hermine is being warned against and the winds are picking up. Next post will be back to dear dirty New York.

More Fencing

Dune fence

48th Street

Fencing

Click any image to see all of them enlarged.

I used On1 Photo for B&W conversion of the 2 landscape-oriented images, then pulled back the opacity to bring back some of the color in the fences while the rest of the image remained almost totally monochromatic.

Morning Surf

Shooting on a tripod, I set the shutter speed to 1/8 second which blurs the motion of the surf.

Dawn Fisherman

Sunrise at the Beach

Click any image to see all of them full-sized.

The summer isn’t complete without getting up early one morning and trundling down to the beach to catch the sunrise. More postcard clichés for your delectation!

It was a real pleasure shooting the sunrise this year with my Fuji XT-1 and meFoto tripod. The camera made it a dream to adjust shutter-speed, aperture and exposure compensation, to manually focus precisely using the focus peaking feature, align shots with auto level indicator and instantly adjusting the tripod with the ball-head controls. Everything fell to hand easily. A pleasure.