Sunday morning at Cherry Beach

[RBSinTo]

This is an early morning grabshot I made at Cherry Beach, on the Lake Ontario waterfront here in Toronto a few years ago. The couple were sitting on the lifeguard station dock enjoying the view and the sunrise. After nearly 20 years of shooting with only prime lenses, I had just purchased a zoom which I trying out for the first time. I spied the scene and when the swan glided into the frame, I knew I had the shot I wanted.
motorized Nikon F2AS
Tokina ATX 80~200 2.8 AIS manual focus
Fuji 100 ISO colour slide

[Shadowman]

Nice capture. I'd crop out the landmass for another version.

[RBSinTo]

Nice capture. I'd crop out the landmass for another version.

Thanks John.
I can't crop it because there are birds flying above the islands and I had to leave them in to appease my bird-shooting photobuds!
Seriously, I think the islands add an upper anchor to the shot which I like and when I do the crop, to me, there is something missing.

[bnnrcn]

I like the image and the place is very promising for other compositions too may be with some wide angle lenses

[dje]

I like it Robert. The shot has a nice peaceful atmosphere and the swan does make it ! Is the colour true to life (not that It matters) ?

Dave

[IzzieK]

What's with the purple tinge, Robert? This is the second one that you uploaded that has it. Or is it my computer? I like the composition...

[Manfred M]

Nice and simple. I like it. I find that the crop that John suggested also works quite well and simplifies the image even more. I actually hadn't noticed the geese until you had pointed them out.

I find it interesting how people who either have only done digital photography or have forgotten how film works and the strange colour casts that it has. Film came (comes?) in two flavours; daylight and tungsten; with the vast majority being the daylight white balance sort. So strange colour casts were quite common, especially when people shot and viewed slides.

In print work, a degree of correction would be applied during the printing process. The digital world's equivalent is correcting the white balance of a jpeg. While not quite as good as doing it with the raw data, it works quite well. This is why I've never understood the writers who say that it's impossible to correct white balance in a jpeg; because the equivalent was done for decades with film.

[RBSinTo]

Nice and simple. I like it. I find that the crop that John suggested also works quite well and simplifies the image even more. I actually hadn't noticed the geese until you had pointed them out.

I find it interesting how people who either have only done digital photography or have forgotten how film works and the strange colour casts that it has. Film came (comes?) in two flavours; daylight and tungsten; with the vast majority being the daylight white balance sort. So strange colour casts were quite common, especially when people shot and viewed slides.

In print work, a degree of correction would be applied during the printing process. The digital world's equivalent is correcting the white balance of a jpeg. While not quite as good as doing it with the raw data, it works quite well. This is why I've never understood the writers who say that it's impossible to correct white balance in a jpeg; because the equivalent was done for decades with film.

The blue of Ektachrome immediately comes to mind.
Today I actually find the casts seem to come from the scanning as many times I have difficulty getting my scans to look like the slides they came from, and in a couple of cases I've not been able to duplicate the beautiful golden light in the originals.

[MrB]

Wonderful, warm and tranquil scene - I like it just as it is, and the tone (real or processed) reinforces the effect.

Cheers.
Philip

[jcuknz]

I bought a color temperature meter once ... on a sale, it was cheap ... then I discovered to utilize it I would need a trunkload of correction filters .... so much easier now with digital and editing programmes.
Whatever I prefer digital