Dancing Waves

[JimFox]

This is from Little Corona in Corona Del Mar in SoCal. It's one from the archives, and I have found it's interesting sometimes when I look through the archives at certain shots like this and I wonder if today I would have been able to capture it differently?

For instance shooting into the sun here which I wanted to do so that the waves would get backlit and hopefully some of the panes of water would turn golden like they stained glass. But that left me with a sun that was burning out part of the sky and water where it was just so bright. If shot it today with todays camera could those areas not be blown out? Would I want them not to be blown out? After all it was bright. I also thought, could I have shot it without the sun in the photo? Often I will try the same shot but with the sun just out of the frame. But in this case I was going after the line of the dancing waves, and had I moved it so the sun was out of the frame, then the dancing waves would no longer be parallel to the frame of the photo. If you got this far, you can see I have been asking lots of questions today....

Here it is,

Jim

 

[AlanLichty]

I have no idea how many dozens and dozens of times I have sat squeezing off shots trying to get the perfect golden splash/spray - without really getting the shot I was imagining. This is as close or closer to that than most - and it's not easy to get there. Having details on this side of the rocks, getting some colors in the splash itself, and not blowing out the sky portion is a decent outcome. Nice having the sailboat anchored out there for your shot too.

 

[Ben Egbert]

I don't think the sun is too bright, or for that matter even blown. And you have detail in the rocks. I am not so sure this could be improved.

What I find is that when I want to print really large, my older cameras don't have enough pixels, so I need to reshoot. I have a bunch of images in that category. But what I normally find, is that any given old image is very hard to get a second time. Mesa Arch is one of the few places where I have been able to upgrade an image by shooting a new camera. Maybe a few Teton locations too.

 

[Dean]

Jim,
Nice shot.. for this one I do find the large sun area a distraction but when you crop just below that, just above the boat I think you get a really neat capture ..
regards,
Dean

 

[lightsgood]

Sure wish I was closer to an Ocean Jim. Beautiful.

 

[Mike Mancil]

Looks very natural to me and that's usually my hallmark. Good stuff.