Shooting into the light

[Donald]

I reviewed this photo when you first posted it and intentionally decided to wait a couple days to revisit it before coming to any relatively final thoughts about it. Though it's a nice image, for me it doesn't measure up to the extremely high quality of most of your other images. I think it "needs" the lighthouse to hold my attention, which says a lot about the other 98% of the image.

Perfectly reasonable comment, with which I'm inclined to agree. I never saw it one of "12 great images" (see Ansel Adams) that I'll hopefully make this year!!

But a good exercise and am image that might make it into the gallery/album of the coastline of the East Neuk of Fife.

[Mike Buckley]

I never saw it one of "12 great images" (see Ansel Adams) that I'll hopefully make this year!!

The difference between you and me is that you have every reason to think you'll be able to make 12 such images this year and I'll be extremely grateful to make just one or two.

[Donald]

The difference between you and me is that you have every reason to think you'll be able to make 12 such images this year and I'll be extremely grateful to make just one or two.

That, Mr Buckley, is a statement of modesty that belies your technical and artistic abilities in photography. What you do, for example, in a small studio setting with bottles, glasses and the like, represents a masterclass for many of us.

[Dave Humphries]

~ because the polarizer has no polarizing effect when the sun is so directly facing the lens.

That's true for the sky (if blue), but wouldn't it also take off some of the sheen (but not the speculars), off the surface of the sea?
Perhaps giving it more contrast between white froth and the dark sea surface.


Donald, Good picture (goes without saying really).

[Mike Buckley]

That's true for the sky (if blue), but wouldn't it also take off some of the sheen (but not the speculars), off the surface of the sea?

No, it won't make any difference. The corollary is that if you adjust the polarizer to achieve maximum effect on a clear blue sky, that is the same position that you'll achieve maximum effect on the grass and other vegetation.

[Wavelength]

Dramatic

[Rebel]

A very nice shot Donald, some of the highlights are a tiny bit too bright for me but thats being very picky!