Oregon's Dunes and Beaches: Another redo of a D7000 raw file shot along the scenic Oregon Coastal Highway (101) for landscape, sharpening, and equalization experimentation. Best in...

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Feb 14, 2019 14:39:15 #

Fred Harwood Loc: Sheffield, Mass.

Another redo of a D7000 raw file shot along the scenic Oregon Coastal Highway (101) for landscape, sharpening, and equalization experimentation.

Best in download, critiques always welcome and read.

ISO 160, f/10, 1/400, 35mm (kit lens, handheld).

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Feb 14, 2019 14:40:35 #

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

Feb 14, 2019 15:00:59 #

John from gpwmi Loc: Michigan

Beautiful sight. Nice shot and composition. Heading there in June.

Feb 14, 2019 15:50:59 #

JoAnneK01 Loc: Lahaina, Hawaii

Was just there last year. Such a beautiful coast. Mahalo for sharing.

Feb 14, 2019 18:21:23 #

ORpilot Loc: Prineville, Or

Fred Harwood wrote:

Feb 14, 2019 18:24:23 #

ORpilot Loc: Prineville, Or

Hope you don’t mind. I changed you photo to B&W and messed with it a bit.

Feb 14, 2019 18:26:53 #

Fred Harwood Loc: Sheffield, Mass.

ORpilot wrote:

Hope you don’t mind. I changed you photo to B&W and messed with it a bit.

I don't mind, but can you, or any other, help me understand why you think B&W adds information to the photo?

Feb 14, 2019 18:40:30 #

ORpilot Loc: Prineville, Or

Technically speaking, it doesn’t ad anything. It can change the wow factor or how you feel about it

Feb 14, 2019 19:02:10 #

Fred Harwood Loc: Sheffield, Mass.

ORpilot wrote:

Technically speaking, it doesn’t ad anything. It can change the wow factor or how you feel about it

Thanks for responding.

When collecting memories, attempting to preserve, rather than "wow," a memory for others likely is personal, rather than an adventure in art.

I have little sense of art, and so rely on recreating what impressed us there and then, as closely as I can with my basic equipment for our several slideshows that play on our computers when not in use and at invited shows.

Whenever I see a grand B&W, I can't help but wonder about the time of day, the reflections of sky in shadow and color cast, and what other clues of colors were there, but gone missing.

Feb 14, 2019 20:37:44 #

krashdragon

[quote=Fred Harwood

Whenever I see a grand B&W, I can't help but wonder about the time of day, the reflections of sky in shadow and color cast, and what other clues of colors were there, but gone missing.[/quote]

I can understand why people like b&w, I used to shoot of lot of it in film. Ok, it was cheaper, and I didnt have the cash for color.
But... I simply see in color. To me, except for a very few photos, b&w just doent seem quite real. Maybe because color plates in books were so rare when I was growing up. One beautiful frontspiece, and the rest mainly b&w illustrations. Or, maybe because I was nearsighted and used colors and shapes to determine objects, rather than just seeing the objects themselves. If that makes any sense....

Feb 15, 2019 00:06:43 #

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

Fred Harwood wrote:

I don't mind, but can you, or any other, help me understand why you think B&W adds information to the photo?

I don't even know what added information is so I can't answer the question, but I (almost) always chose B&W over color in landscapes. I don't have the "artest's eye" which is, I think, required for good color pictures but my eye an brain understand brightness and contrast and mood. To me nothing expresses mood like B&W. Bright and shiny, dark an ominous and all the grays in-between. Don't look for subtleties in my B&Ws they are almost always dark and always in your face.

Feb 15, 2019 07:04:14 #