Seascapes

I've trawled through the google images results pages and have selected some of my favorites

This is the first one i found. I selected this one because i like the way that the island stands out on the horizon and the light from the sunset highlights it. This was taken by a unknown photographer but i really like the way they caught the light in this picture and the way the rule of thirds has been applied in a horizontal form instead of the typical vertical form. This image is also particularly effective as the eye is drawn along the water line to the silhouette of the island and then to the light shining over the horizon.


Its not unlike the work of Mike Mcfarlane, who also manges to catch the light in this manner in many of his pictures and uses it to draw the eye to the details in the picture along with lines of the tide and other natural features. I think there are some fantastic examples of this in his 2008 portfolio, most of which were taken in the Scotland.




This photo is a really good example of his work though it hasn't transferred to my blog well and has lost most of its quality and can barely be described as a seascape. I think the lines of the sand bank and beach really draw the eye through the image to the skyline i really like how the light emerges from the corner of the making the cloud glow and gives the sky a iridescent shade that i think completes the image.



These are more classic style seascape that his really effective because in the first photo the dark colors of the sea and the light yellow gold of the cliff meet and the glow has been well captured in this photo and is a quality that i would like to replicate in my photos.




In the second photo I also like the photo for the clash between land and sea and how the shear cliff stands against the oncoming sea this contrast in color and texture really shows and the land sea divide in its most dramatic, short of a storm, form.




The following photos are some of mine and are all linked to a larger version on flickr. This photo i think is similar in many ways to the second above photo by Mike Mcfarlane as it has similar lines that draw the eye along the beach to the horizon and the hill. Also i think the lighting really good and the person wandering along the beach gives the picture a great sense of scale. The law of thirds is also in effect here but not in its typical form, it normal divides photos vertically but in this case it divides horizontally the beach being the lowest section the hill and slightly darker region of the sky being the middle area and the sky is the top.



I like the way in this picture in this picture that the line leads you along the beach and up to the hill line which is highlighted by the blue sky above and the darker blue of the sea either side of it. Also in this image i like the way the washed up seaweed give it an interesting foreground. The way the layers of the beach and then the sea draw the eye out to the left towards the peninsular.



In this image I like the way the bay makes the the land stand out and the blue green of the sea makes a great contrast against the lighter sandy color of the land and the mix of colors from the village /divides Also i like the way the land in foreground gives the image depth and highlights the scale of the landscape and becomes point of intrest and gives the impression that it could almost be mirrored on this side.



This photo I took from almost the same place as the one above but for this second photo I zoomed in and focused juson the perninsular that in my opinon is a really interesting focus point for the photo. In this photo the land in particular stands out and the layers on the cliff make it really interesting to look at.



Overall i think seascapes can make really interesting photo but only for the reasons that any other landscape is interesting and the sea itself does not make the photo more interesting so i will not be using them as a singular or focus on the more then anything else for the ret of this investigation.