Posted by Art Monkey (Salt Spring Island, Canada) on 7 April 2007 in Sport & Recreation and Portfolio.
this is a picture of me taken in hawaii - behind me is the bonzai pipeline - where for some stupid reason I decided to swim - I love the water and I love swimming, but shortly after taking this picture I almost drown - I still love the water and I still love to swim :)
I have played with the photo in Painter - where I was basically manipulating the colour like you would on an SX70 photo
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Good color tone, little bit soft I think..
7 Apr 2007 2:17am
@ajoeh: hi ajoeh, this was a slide that was scanned and then the colours were pushed around digitally in a program called painter - I tried to reproduce the effect of smushing around emulsion on an SX70 image - that is why it is soft :)
That little blur(slow shutter speed) really works here, but I would have cropped off the sky to give more sense of vastness to the ocean waters.
7 Apr 2007 2:31am
@Shuva: thanks for your comments Shuva :)
I agree with Shuva. The overall blur is very nice about this photo.
7 Apr 2007 2:37am
@Behrooz: thanks Behrooz
Good use of value here!
7 Apr 2007 3:00am
@Craiger: Cheers Craiger!
You were brave facing that monster wave. Looks pretty scary to me. Like your processing in Painter, makes it look like a C41 processed print
@Richard_Irwin: thanks for your continuing visits and comments Richard ;)
Great pp! Love the hue!
7 Apr 2007 3:08am
@Myst: thank you ;)
Uh that's one h%$# of a wave, watch out!!! I know what you mean about swimming and the water...LOVE IT!!! Love the shot! Looks like you are having a blast! The pp work is perfect! Rip Tide?!
7 Apr 2007 7:04am
@Jen: Thanks so much Jen and yes Rip Tide is correct
I like the softness of this photo. Where you the only one in the water?!
7 Apr 2007 9:58am
@alla: thank you alla - yes my boyfriend (at the time) and I were the only ones in the water - there was a lifeguard watching me drown with his binoculars! - luckily, it was my boyfriend who saved me :)
Really nice processing, the result is great, Nice shot!
7 Apr 2007 10:09am
@Alfredo J. Martiz J.: thank you Alfredo
Who took the picture A.M? Cool shot - really nice processing and has a great feel; you look very happy and the angle and motion blur have a sense of spontaneous, summer-holiday snap about them. Shame about nearly drowning... you would not get me in that water for love nor money...
7 Apr 2007 10:30am
@Daroru: my boyfriend at the time took the picture - thanks for your comments
Very interesting photo.
7 Apr 2007 11:50am
LOOOOOVVE what you've done with the waves! It's like Aphrodite rising from the foam (ok, I'm reading Helen of Troy right now, can you tell?) In all seriousness, I do really love what you've done. Most excellent! And by the way... ARE YOU MAD? Glad you didn't drown! Oh yeah... rip tide?
7 Apr 2007 5:34pm
@amy: thanks so much amy - your comments are always much appreciated - even though my head keeps getting bigger :) I guess I was mad - I have never been afraid of the water - I was also younger when that picture was taken and I think now I have more respect for the sea and rip tide is correct!
Great processing, it looks as though youre going to be taken out with the current.. Nice one
7 Apr 2007 7:49pm
@Nick Passantino: thanks Nick!
Thats a cool capture, and the tides are high pal, get out of there quckly hehehe..... :-)
8 Apr 2007 2:26am
@Rahul: thank you Rahul ;)
I really like this 'portrait' and the softening effect. I agree with Amy on the Goddesss effect!
8 Apr 2007 3:03am
@Sylvia: thanks so much Sylvia!
cool
8 Apr 2007 3:09am
@KM Faisal: thanks KM
If I were this lady,I could not smile like her. Because I can not swim!!
10 Apr 2007 3:39pm
@miu*: ha ha - I'm sorry you cannot swim though - it's a lot of fun :)
Go there and swim in the summer, no waves then. Pipeline can be a dangerous place.
19 Apr 2007 7:32am
Fantastic!
23 Apr 2007 3:05am
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