Newport Beach Pembrokeshire.
As kid I remember being hugely disappointed when I first discovered that waves hadn’t really travelled all the way over the ocean. In fact no water had travelled anywhere but it was just going up and down and back and forth in circles. It’s only the energy that travels... How unromantic can you get!
So these aren’t waves from America like I’d really like them to be. Realistically, at best, they are the energetic remnants of a windy squall in mid-Atlantic. Sorry. Poetry and imagination will resume later, but found somewhere else…
In spite of that disappointment waves still turn out to be interesting (speaking as a would-be physicist). Life depends on them; energy wouldn’t exist without them.
Even sea waves are interesting, especially when they hit the shore. When that happens the movement of water becomes chaotic, and water does move a lot further. It’s unmodelable in maths because there are too many unknown parameters and slight irregularities in flow cause unpredictable chaos. So when you look at a wave you are looking at the triumph of nature over mathematics. ‘Great!’ I hear you say (my vivid imagination runs away... :) ).
Not one of the best in the series of five so far and probably the last landscape from this set, but still fun to process. I liked the white frothy breakers against the dark solidity of the headland and the brooding sky, so that was the aim for tweaking this one.
For 7DWF Thursday: Black & White/Sepia.
Thank you for taking time to look. I hope you enjoy the image!
[Processed in LR for a full range of colour and light contrast for tonality (for feeding the B&W converter later).
Affinity Photo: Strong Haze filter to rescue the clouds from the British murk.
Converted in Nik Silver Efex with contrast and structure boost, and light sepia toning.
Back in AP sharpening with High Pass and Linear Light blend, masked to prevent haloes on the horizon and granulation of the sky; lightened shadows with Shadows/Highlights filter, selectively changed contrast with Curves in the Lightness channel of LAB; added a masked Gaussian Blur to counter some of the messy artefacts in the high contrast processing.
Finally fairly strong dark vignette, and flipped the whole piece horizontally because this was another of those curious shots that said something different when you did that :) ]
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