Sunny Side Up

Gallery: LandscapePosted September 9, 2011232 views10 comments

This pictures was from my last visit to New Zealand with Abdullaziz Bin Ali.

This was my first area to photo shoot. Those rocks are huge and they are bit hard to involve as a subject. After 36hours in a plane, transit and driving and not to forget sleeping the night in a tent took away all the comfort dreams I had and faced my first experience of landscape photography!

Taken by
Canon 5D MK II, 16-35 f/2.8

Comments

10 comments

Comment posted by Ed Lowe on September 9, 2011 at 10:26 AM

This is a fantastic first post, Abdulla. The lighting is superb as is the drama in the sky. I also like your placement of the rocks in the scene. They are very unique looking; they remind me of a tortise shell. I hope you will post more images as well as comment on others.

Ed

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Comment posted by Bill Chambers on September 9, 2011 at 11:15 AM

Welcome to NPN and ESS Landscape forum Abdulla, and you have posted a wonderful first image! Very nice composition and I love the texture in the sand. Looking forward to many more posts!

Registered on April 10, 2005, 753 Posts, 21216 Comments

Comment posted by Larry Fischer on September 9, 2011 at 12:27 PM

The roundish item in my monitor is dark.
I wonder if it could be lightened a tad?
Good composition and color.
the fisch

Registered on July 28, 2008, 155 Posts, 874 Comments

Comment posted by Chikku Baiju on September 9, 2011 at 3:08 PM

Simple and beautiful. Love it!

Registered on January 9, 2010, 31 Posts, 246 Comments

Comment posted by Abdullaziz Bin Ali on September 9, 2011 at 3:24 PM

Eh, Abdullah is here

Welcome, Glad to see you here
Excellent , but slight thing on the space between the boulder and the frame

What OPACITY did you use

Wish to see the next

Registered on May 31, 2009, 112 Posts, 1590 Comments

Comment posted by Peter Richter on September 9, 2011 at 3:48 PM

Abdulla, your image has an almost abstract quality to me. The plain composition helps me to concentrate on shapes and shades. I especially appreciate the three-dimensional rock contrasted by the two-dimensional background. Great work in my opinion.

Peter

Registered on November 10, 2010, 218 Posts, 2723 Comments

Comment posted by Yiming Hu on September 9, 2011 at 7:29 PM

Welcome. Like the simple composition and interesting, turtle-shell-like rock on the foreground.

Registered on April 28, 2011, 38 Posts, 733 Comments

Comment posted by Abdulla Bin Touq on September 10, 2011 at 12:50 AM

Thank you all for the welcome wishes. Your comments and time spent observing the image had it's own delight to me.

To know more about the tortoise lookalike rock, here is a bit of information on it.

Abdullaziz, the opacity used 1000% based on your suggestion

Registered on January 2, 2011, 10 Posts, 68 Comments

Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on September 10, 2011 at 3:11 PM

These shapes almost seem alive, and the ripples make it feel like they move occasionally.

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Comment posted by Abdulla Bin Touq on September 12, 2011 at 8:35 AM

They do much look alive, a lot of friends thought they were turtles or a sleeping seal. Thanks Tony.

Registered on January 2, 2011, 10 Posts, 68 Comments