Study Group 10
Cliff Banks

July Image

Title - Wave

How I did it -  My July abstract image was part of a picture taken from a boat on a lake showing the ripple on the water from the bow of the boat.  Only work done was to crop to letter box format in PS.

COMMENTS:

Mark Aksoy	I like this abstract because it is also an action shot which shows a range of water textures: disturbed, wavy and bubbly at lower right to calm and placid at upper left.  You might try flipping the image horizontally so that the action flows left to right.
Cliff Banks
Bob Altman
Bob Barley	Neat shot. The wave line is a good diagonal across the image. It appears you were shooting with a narrow DOF which adds emphasis to the sparkle just left of center, and removes any background distraction. The very soft focus on the left edge directs the eye inward toward the wave feature. Good shot.
Rene Ross
Margaret Boike	Were it not for the title, I wouldn't know what it was a photo of. At first, I thought it was drifting snow. I wonder how it would look if you had included more of the surrounding water - more swirling or splashing. I like the softness of the left side contrasting with the sharp top line of the wave leading off to the right.
Rich Krebs	Neat picture on a calm day.

Member Bio

Cliff Banks, AFIAP, LRPS, PSA EID - 2 stars   cliff@cliffbanks.euphonymail.com Biography - Born in 1938 in Sunderland England, where I still reside, having retired in 1997 after 40 years as an electrical engineer. An active amateur photographer since the 1970’s, an LRPS member of the “Royal Photographic Society”, and joined “PSA” in 2002 when I commenced entering the international salons. I am also a member of the “Sunderland Photographic Association” and "Yorkshire Monochrome Group". Since my retirement, I now spend 2 to 3 months each year in USA as my daughter and family reside in Denver, Colorado. Computer: Pentium, 2200mhz, 512 MB ram, 80gb hard drive, 52x/24x/52x cd-rw, DVD rewriter, 19” monitor, Epson 1800 printer for colour, Epson 1270 for monochrome, Canon fs400 slide scanner, Mikrotek x6 flatbed with transparency hood, Wacom Graphire Tablet. Software: Photoshop CS3, Vuescan, GF Fractals, Pics to Exe, Windows XP. Camera: Nikon F80, D80, and F70 converted for infrared; 24-120mm, 100-300mm, and  20mm lenses, and 105 mm macro lens.