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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Natural Bridge Santa Cruz

It was taken 2011 when I just started learning landscape photographing with my first DSLR Nikon D300, Nikon 12-24mm.

ISO 100, F11, 0.6sec. One exposure, singh ray 3 stop reverse GND filter, maybe Lee GND filter as well (not very sure now).

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2819/9082894092_f8aa8bdc2d_o.jpg

Jun 19, 2013 at 12:25 AM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Natural Bridge Santa Cruz

Lovely scene. Great lines into the image and good processing.

Jun 19, 2013 at 03:01 AM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Natural Bridge Santa Cruz

I miss that place. I lived in Santa Cruz for years and used to visit this beach often. Nice leading lines in the water and light on the arch. There will be some here who will object to the contrail in the sky, since it's a pretty strong element, but there wouldn't have been much you could do about that. The one thing I would recommend revisiting is the relative brightness between foreground and sky. The foreground is pretty bright, and the sky is a bit dark by comparison, which works against drawing the eye into the distance.

Jun 19, 2013 at 06:22 AM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Natural Bridge Santa Cruz

Great capture. Beautiful lighting+++

Once a year I visit California & this place is always on my list of places to go to!

Jun 19, 2013 at 10:06 AM

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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Natural Bridge Santa Cruz

Looks good to me. (I don't even see the contrail, must be my monitor, couldn't be my vision.)

Jun 19, 2013 at 11:34 AM

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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Natural Bridge Santa Cruz

This is stunning. Love the lines and the light. Well done!

Jun 19, 2013 at 02:13 PM

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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Natural Bridge Santa Cruz

Love the shot! One of my favorite locations.

Jun 19, 2013 at 03:48 PM

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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · Natural Bridge Santa Cruz

Very much a "Wow, I want to be there!" photo. Fantastic composition and great colours. I feel like I should be seriously impressed by what you are producing now if this is what you were doing when you were just starting out :P

Jun 19, 2013 at 06:46 PM

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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · Natural Bridge Santa Cruz

great lookin shot

Jun 19, 2013 at 06:46 PM

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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · Natural Bridge Santa Cruz

Excellent shot.

Jun 19, 2013 at 07:20 PM

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p.1 #11 · p.1 #11 · Natural Bridge Santa Cruz

The color and tones in this image seem to be all over the place

Jun 19, 2013 at 07:24 PM

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p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · Natural Bridge Santa Cruz

I echo Phrasi's thoughts about the two areas of relative brightness- it looks a bit the opposite of what I expect it should.
Or maybe not

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Regardless, this is an excellent image, Yan.
Thank you for sharing it with us.
Charlie

Jun 19, 2013 at 09:08 PM

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p.1 #13 · p.1 #13 · Natural Bridge Santa Cruz

Phrasikleia wrote:
I miss that place. I lived in Santa Cruz for years and used to visit this beach often. Nice leading lines in the water and light on the arch. There will be some here who will object to the contrail in the sky, since it's a pretty strong element, but there wouldn't have been much you could do about that. The one thing I would recommend revisiting is the relative brightness between foreground and sky. The foreground is pretty bright, and the sky is a bit dark by comparison, which works against drawing the eye into the distance.

Thanks for your suggestions, I will look into it

Yan

Jun 20, 2013 at 12:07 AM

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p.1 #14 · p.1 #14 · Natural Bridge Santa Cruz

DABNIK wrote:
Great capture. Beautiful lighting+++

Once a year I visit California & this place is always on my list of places to go to!

Very popular place, every time I was here, always dozens of photographyers

Jun 20, 2013 at 12:08 AM

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p.1 #15 · p.1 #15 · Natural Bridge Santa Cruz

Charlie Shugart wrote:
I echo Phrasi's thoughts about the two areas of relative brightness- it looks a bit the opposite of what I expect it should.
Or maybe not

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Regardless, this is an excellent image, Yan.
Thank you for sharing it with us.
Charlie
Thank you, Charlie. I will see what I can do.

Thank you everyone for your CC and comments.

Jun 20, 2013 at 12:12 AM

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p.1 #16 · p.1 #16 · Natural Bridge Santa Cruz

Hey Yan,

I love what you have going on in this shot, the sweep of the water is just perfect. The two things that jumped out at me though was 1st, the bridge itself, the top of it seems too red, too saturated. I would tone that down some. The 2nd thing is on the left side it looks like a bird is cut in half along the edge. I would lose that, things cut off on edges can really be a distraction for the eye.

Other than that, very nicely done, especially for just starting out. You have a great eye.

Jim

Jun 20, 2013 at 12:49 AM

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p.1 #17 · p.1 #17 · Natural Bridge Santa Cruz

very nice. only been there once and it was mid day just to enjoy the beach. was this taken at sunrise?

Jun 21, 2013 at 01:20 AM


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