Monday, September 26, 2011

One Sunset, Many Pictures - III


What was nice about the sunset location was that there was beach grass between the parking lot and the beach. Ansel Adams has always spoken about a good photograph having a foreground, middle ground and background, which adds more interest to a image. The beach grass was my foreground, and that was helpful. So after doing the first picture, I began to think about how I could make use of the foreground. So I crouched down so that I would be looking at the sun through the grasses. It makes this a much different way to see the sunset, than picture number 1. Having said all that, I just realized that this photograph only has a foreground and a background! Duh! There is no middle ground in this.
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7 comments:

  1. NeenSeptember 27, 2011 at 12:05 AM

    Philosophically speaking, there rarely is any middle ground; hence all the turbulence in the world today. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. You have so much incredible talent to capture an image like that Uncle "Meano"!

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  2. ken schwarzSeptember 27, 2011 at 4:44 AM

    I think you are beating yourself up too much! You have a foreground, middle ground and background. The grass is maybe 10 feet away, the horizon is about 5 miles out and the sun is way out there at about 93 million miles! I believe Ansel Adams would cut you a little slack on this beautiful sunset photograph.

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 27, 2011 at 6:21 AM

    I agree with Ken Schwartz. This is beautiful. I loved the first one but like this looking through the grass one even more!
    Joan

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 27, 2011 at 7:47 AM

    For Sam, the intense orange-red color is "everything" in that sunset. Looking through the grass just reduces my ability to see subtle color variations near the horizon. I'm glad you shot the earlier-posted version. It is, after all, all about the sunset and not about the grass.

    Glad to be able to muddle the discussion.

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  5. AnonymousSeptember 27, 2011 at 11:01 AM

    I really like this one, too. But I keep going back to the first one because there is less going on - a calmer feeling...bsk

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  6. AnonymousSeptember 27, 2011 at 3:47 PM

    Joan expressed my thoughts after seeing this 'view' of this beautiful sunset. May not get any better than this!

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  7. AnonymousSeptember 27, 2011 at 5:05 PM

    i think the middle ground is the water...
    regardless of how many grounds there are, it is beautiful.

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