Inch Beach for C&C

PonderStibbons

Hi, I read here a lot and I've finally decided to bite the bullet and put a photo up for C&C. I really like this photo but I could be clouded by the fact that it was pretty difficult to get (I got a little bit trapped by the tide and had to wade back to shore in knee-deep water!). I'm also aware of a couple of problems: severe distortion at the top of the frame, and a smudge which I think is a splash of water on my grad filter. Do these things ruin the image? Is it just boring? Any comment or critique, no matter how harsh, is more than welcome.

Cheers!

jpfahy

Looks great to me. What PP did you do. Photoshop has a lens distortion correction filter which would get rid of the distortion.
Posting the EXIF data always helps us all learn!

PonderStibbons

jpfahy wrote: »

Looks great to me. What PP did you do. Photoshop has a lens distortion correction filter which would get rid of the distortion.
Posting the EXIF data always helps us all learn!

Thanks for the comment! The exif data is: Shutter speed: 5 sec, Aperture: f/20, Focal Length: 18 mm, ISO Speed: 200
The post-processing was a good bit of constrast added in Lightroom, and some white balance tweaking. There was also an ND Grad Filter over the lens (and possibly a polariser) Some day I'll really have to sit down and learn how to use photoshop - especially for things like lens correction.

dazftw

Large is way better people. Always liked these pictures, yet ive never went out and tried it

I_Mr_Euphony

This doesn't look like Inch Beach, Co. Kerry.
Is it? Or is it another Inch?

PonderStibbons

I_Mr_Euphony wrote: »

This doesn't look like Inch Beach, Co. Kerry.
Is it? Or is it another Inch?

Yup, it's Inch, Co. Kerry all right. There are some rocks over by the entrance.

Balfey1972

Lovely photo.

Morrisseeee

Looks professional, well done.

hopelessOne

It's great to see pics of Inch... I know it very well but haven't got this angle (yet!). Were you far over on the right or just the small rocks underneath the old hotel? Most of the really nice rocks on the far right have been covered over by large boulders that form the new sea defences :-(

If anything, the dark bottom 1/4 could be cropped off. Or, even better, if you'd tilted the camera up a little to eliminate this patch it would have also brought the horizon closer to the enter of the frame, thereby reducing the distortion. Just my 2c (with perfect 20/20 hindsight!).

PonderStibbons

Thanks for the comments! I don't know the beach that well, that was the first time I've spent any time there. I was on the 'beach' side, right where the peninsuala meets the mainland. I don't remember any old hotel but I may not have been paying attention...

Great picture! Def not boring and well worth the effort.

Trojan911

Great shot, well worth getting wet for.

randylonghorn

I_Mr_Euphony wrote: »

This doesn't look like Inch Beach, Co. Kerry.

I thought that first, but when I thought about it, I have a rough idea of where OP was ...

Nice shot, not at all typical of the shots you usually see from Inch.