Foaming Sea

[Jocelyn Walker]

When I initially looked at the original shot, I was really excited with the thought that I had captured a good shot! When I looked at it in actual size or at 100%, I was dismayed to see it looked out of focus & had blue fringing etc! After I cropped & resized, the clarity improved somewhat! I thought changing it to B&W would take away the coloured fringeing! What do you think?

[Jocelyn Walker]

Re: Foaming Sea

Here is the same shot in colour! Which one works better do you think?

[Pol]

Re: Foaming Sea

Here is the same shot in colour! Which one works better do you think?

I think I prefer the colour version, possibly because I always like watching the colours of the sea. I also like the shot - the foam looks good imho.

As for the fringing - do you shoot RAW and do you use Photoshop? If so, the Adobe RAW converter has tools which can easily deal with the fringes - sliders that remove, or considerably reduce them anyway.

Pol

[lumix]

Re: Foaming Sea

When I initially looked at the original shot, I was really excited with the thought that I had captured a good shot! When I looked at it in actual size or at 100%, I was dismayed to see it looked out of focus & had blue fringing etc! After I cropped & resized, the clarity improved somewhat! I thought changing it to B&W would take away the coloured fringing! What do you think?

I like Poll prefer the coloured version. I'm inclined to think that what you call colour fringing is in fact just the reflection of the sky in the water. Fringing as I understand is the effect caused by high contrast that a lens is incapable of handling. Also the out of focus you describe could just be subject movement. I wonder what others will make of this.

[Stephen]

Re: Foaming Sea

I like Poll prefer the coloured version. I'm inclined to think that what you call colour fringing is in fact just the reflection of the sky in the water. Fringing as I understand is the effect caused by high contrast that a lens is incapable of handling. Also the out of focus you describe could just be subject movement. I wonder what others will make of this.

I'd pretty much agree with that Ron

[Tinka]

Re: Foaming Sea

Hi,
I prefer the color version and agree with Ron also, I like the image,as is, but if you want to freeze the water movement you may have to resort to shutter priority Auto.

[Jocelyn Walker]

Re: Foaming Sea

I do shoot in Raw & have a Raw file on DVD of this & other pics. I use both CS2 & Jasc/Corel 9, which both apparantly have Raw converters! However I wouldn't know where to start! I had a look, the file came on screen in Photoshop as a grey nothing...just blocks of grey, black & white! It says enter an interger between 1 & whatever figure, but could not see any slider or converter tools! Help in Jasc said to go to preferences & change or click on Digital Camera Raw Format....so that was easy, but beyond that...nothing happened that looked any different!
I too prefer the colour version as it loses its naturalness I think to see sea in B&W! As I said in my earlier post tho'... was that before reducing the file size, the pic looked so out of focus in its actual size.....anything above 50%, yet seemingly fine when viewed below that...which is pic I posted! I have overlooked a number of shots & been soooo disappointed with the majority of pics taken on holiday, as they seem out of focus in TIFF format! Perhaps I need to change them all to JPeg! In Jasc Paintshop, I can already access tools to fix or remove digital camera noise...jpeg artefacts etc....which helped a little on coloured version!