The Beach at the End

Wonderful! Nothing to add.

Hi Kah Kit,

Wow, that's a beautiful composition, the foreground is just well exposed with the sky reflexion, it's great. I like so much your sky/clouds with these colors, they give a pleasant mood : ) The texture and the lines of the sands are amazing... Cheers

Just fabulous KK! Enjoying your NZ series. Keep them coming.

What a chance we post pictures from the same locations :)
Wow, you are lucky Kah, you had lovely clouds
I camped there four nights and didn't find such a beautiful clouds
This place is gorgeous, I'm planning to visit it again :)

BTW, my first day there, I lost my path to the camp and got lost in the forest it was a terrible day

Keep this great work Kah .. all the best

Beautiful shot, wonderful colors, great sky!!

Great capture - I love the lead in lines in the foreground and the dramatic sky. Your diligence paid off!

The leading lines in the sand and the reflections from the colorful sunrise are superb, imo.

Beautifully composed. The tones are well balanced and though dark are not unrealistic appearing.

Wonderfull, love the composition and dark sky, it balances nicely with the darker fg.

Abdullaziz I can understand how you got lost. That trail from the beach is very difficult to find amongst the dunes in the dark. I got lost one night. Luckily there were two of us to search for the trail.

A very contrasty and colorful image Kah Kit Yoong. However, there seems to be quite a bit of distortion on the horizon there. Not one of my favorites of yours, but it is a cool scene, and it appears as if you've had no shortage of awesome sunrises and sunsets in NZ.

Outstanding shot. Love the reflections and foreground textures.

great mood and colors, Kah! love the lines here and your framing is spot on, as usual. really wild coast scene, like it a lot. I kind of agree with nicolaus about the distortion, very small issue here though to correct. great capture!!!!

Gorgeous coastal shot, Kah. The light is spectacular, and there's plenty of interest throughout. I like the cool blues on the sand.

Sweet!

Kah Kit,

Stunning lines, colors, and contrast.

Beautiful Image

Beautiful seascape Kah Kit. I'm really liking the blue sky reflecting in the small pool and the lines leading in to the pool. I think the processing is great and the relative darker top doesn't bother me in the least. In fact I'd say it looks or could be perceived as being quite natural because of the dark gloomy clouds over the horizon; and it could much clearer overhead. At least that's my thinking.

Lon

Wonderful color, excellent comp, and a very nice graphic feel to the dark rocks. Super shot.

Wow! You've very successfully conveyed your vision for the scene in this stunning image.

For some strange reason that I can't put my finger on, I can't shake the feeling that there is a leftward tilt to this though. I just want to grab it and tilt it about a half-degree clockwise. Talk about nitpicks though...

Your work never fails to disappoint, that's for sure!

Love the scene, especially the contrasting colors between earth and sky, thought I'm at a loss to figure you how such a warm-colored sky is reflecting such cool colors into the water and sand. I guess it may be bluer overhead. Where it not for the copyright, the amount of foreground would feel a bit excessive here. I'm think a 4:3 crop would be nice too.

I love your photography, but in this case it seems to me that the foreground is really too bright for the sky, even though I know that was your intention...

Stunning as per usual Kah, plenty to look at in this.

Gary.

The composition is first rate. Only two things I'd do differently, and you may certainly disagree. One, I don't like the super-bright foreground look in coastal shots. I know some do. Two, is I don't like the magenta cast added by the strong grad, causing a substantial color shift in the foreground.

Sweet Kah Kit!!!

Marc I don't think that's a colour shift caused by a grad. As Lon alluded to, there's bluer sky not visible as it above the frame but you can see it reflected in the pool.

Some magenta is caused by the grad here IMO. I used them for many years on many thousands of photos. Any Singh-Ray at 3-stops hard or over in density would impart more and more magenta onto the scene, which is not always a bad thing or even noticeable a lot of the time with sunsets. When looking at the cloud reflections it's clear to me there's a magenta shift above not visible below.

Marc, I'm aware of the magenta shift, as you say noticeable on 3 stops, quite a bit more obvious at 4 stops. Very very strong on those solid ND filters which I don't use at all for that reason - just too unnatural for my tastes. Not a bad cast to have when you have warm colours in the sky as you say. However the reason I did insist that this wasn't (at least purely) due to the grad cast, is that many of the shots I took several minutes earlier in the day had the same magenta cast extending down to the bottom of the frame. At that earlier time the clouds reflected in the tide pool were pink. In this later shot the sky above me was much more blue however I agree that it looks a lot like a clear delineation between magenta and not. While there may be some slight cast imparted by the grad, I suspect the actual conditions have emphasized this quite a bit - which you'll see when I get around to posting the landscape version of this.

I missed this one until the horizontal Kah, but it's perfect. I love the depth that this has. The lines leading in, the contrast of the reflected sky with the color of the actual sky, and the arch all come together to a beautiful whole.