Storming the Fort and Invading the beaches !!!

[Brendon]

Ok nothing so dramatic, just posting a few photos from Vasai fort and Vasai beach.


Vasai fort by [[ Brendon ]], on Flickr


Vasai Beach #2 by [[ Brendon ]], on Flickr


Vasai Beach by [[ Brendon ]], on Flickr

[Chillum Baba]

First one is a cracker. As compared to your previous series' second one is good, third one is okay. Confused about the third one whether its a coconut or helmet or a big stone or a trollface.

[Omkar]

Brendon, Loved the 2nd one.

[Madhav Bhakta]

#1 is very nice.
Beautiful colours in #2.

[toofan]

Brendon: you have turned pro in landscaping. 1st and 3rd are pro shots.

[Chronic.Clicker]

i like all the three (: wonderful (:

[Point Blank]

Nice sereis. Liked the 2nd one the most!

[sudheer]

Second one is super(I think it will be better off with those trees/vegetation on lower RHS).

[g2]

Good going mate, 1 and 2nd are great. Lovely clouds and colours in the 2nd and 3rd
Whats with the rainbow colours in the bottom of third? Wish you had a bigger and brighter (more identifiable) foreground element in that one.

[theqca]

the second one is very good brendon...its got that element of "magical" light...good work dude!!

i liked the last one but like g2 i too feel that the foreground object could've been a bit larger...or maybe if the angle were a bit lower you could've got that "anchor point".

[manoj]

Wow, beautiful shots, all three. I liked #2 the most. Yes, the vegetation on the RHS can go. It will make it a fantastic, surreal, minimalistic (print-me-large) image.
Any particular polarizer in action for #2/#3?

[hayath]

#1 and #2 rock.
Really liking the movement of clouds captured in #1

#3 - the purples around the FG subject tend to distract a bit

[aniltulsi]

Excellent... In-camera HDR?

[Brendon]

Thanks guys.

@Chillum - Yup, thats a coconut. I needed a larger HDR range (+/- 3 EV) for this shot as the coconut was almost completely black so I couldn't brighten it up as much as I wanted.

@Toofan - Thanks but still have to work on getting the exposures correctly. I am keeping most of the mistakes I did in the past in mind - focusing, horizons, foreground elements etc in mind but exposure is something that still needs a little work. Mostly since light changes very quickly during sunsets and its very easy to make mistakes in a rush to try and get as many shots possible during the golden light. A quick look at my histogram would have told me I needed a (+/- 3 EV HDR rather than the current +/- 2 EV). My camera can go upto +/- 6 EV HDR but anything above 3EV looks very artificial.

@G2/Theqca - Yup I too agree a better foreground element would have worked better and there was a nice dead tree branch a little ahead but 3 other guys were using it so I didn't want the same shot.

@Manoj - Thanks, no polarizer could be used since I was facing the sun and the polarization effect will be practically zero.

@Hayath - Thanks, but that purple glow as probably due to some oil slick that was reflecting the light. Also it was quite dark in the original photo and I brought back some detail which probably didn't do wonders for the original colours.

@Aniltulsi - Thanks ! Yup both #2 and #3 are in camera HDRs.

[rajib]

Loved 'em! HDR done right.

[sankupa1]

Hi Brendon,

"Ok nothing so dramatic"!!!! Why Brendon? Why?

Each of these 3 photographs are full of drama only- there is dramatic light, dramatic colour, cinematic composition, and dramatic technology (HDR). What more drama you wanted me to see in these pics?

Awesome. Liked each one on its own. Whenever I am gazing at the last two I feel I am deep into these landscapes and clouds are just flowing over my head. And the first one is perhaps the most dramatic. I feel like a bird circling over the fort and seeing it from an angle. And the processing of this B/W is again dramatic.

One point I keep reading in books/magazines/the Internet is that when using UWA lens keep something interesting on the foreground. This is not there except that head of a coconut which is not that interesting.

After a long time I saw some pic on JJMFP which ignited my thinking faculties and forced me to write down my feelings.

TFS

Regards,
Santosh K. Patra

[gopalji]

Great Brendon...First if printed in sepia wud have vintage look....superlative....though
2nd: amazingly beautiful!

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[Brendon]

@Rajib - Thanks.

@Sankupa1 - Ah, I generally like very dramatic titles which usually have nothing to do with the actual photos posted.

Thanks for the detailed critique and I quite agree with all of it. A fore ground element is important but there are plenty of occasions where they are generally not available. The beach I went to lacked any rocks that could have been used as a foreground element.

But thanks for the lovely comment. I must admit I was grinning ear to ear when reading it. 

@Gopalji - Thanks sirji !!!