Beach, posts, and horizon; minimalist

            An almost abstract composition, taken on a cloudy day on the beach of St Malo. My goal here was to play with shapes independently of their meaning, using the posts and their reflections in the wet sand to break the horizon and create a vanishing line to the center of the image.

I post-processed the image to make it more abstract. I used the darktable software, as usual. The first thing that I did was make the sky almost white, using a tone curves, and a bit of color correction to make it more blue. I used colorzones to make the sea darker, to create a sharp separation on the horizon. I tuned the exposure to make the bottom of the image darker, and I applied a very slight low-pass filter. Finally, I used a combination of local contrast filters and equalizers, with the clarity or bloom presets, to local soften the image or make it sharper. I made the image sharper along the posts and their reflections, as well as on the stones in the center. I made it softer on the side, in particular on the stones on the left, and on the junctions between the sea and the beach.

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Taken in: France / Bretagne / Paramé (show map)

Taken on: October 10, 2017

Tags:

beach

sand

sky

abstract

minimalist

landscape

geometric

posts

horizon « less

Sets appears in: • Abstraction • Seascapes

Groups appears in: • The Sea • FlickrToday (only 1 pic per day) more » • !! Fave it Up 0-30 (P1, A+F5) • . minimalisme (Level 1 - P1/A4) NO FRAMES!!! « less

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