What better way to follow up a day at the farm than by a day at the beach. Hammonasset State park is the location. It was a very sunny day and I found it necessary to punch up the color by adding a filter layer in Photoshop. This provides much the same result that utilizing a lens filter would provide. Being early Spring the vegitation wasn't in bloom so the color schemes were rather limited. As a result, I focused more on composition. I'm still working on converting some of my shots to black & white. As I walked along the changing landscape I found myself wondering how I would place people within the scenery. The variety of textures & contrasts, scenic beauty, and panoramic scope provided a wide range of options. Yet somehow I felt it would be too easy to cross over into kitsch and sentimentality. Art is never as easy as the accomplished artists make it seem.
All Images ©2008 Greg Petropoulos
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