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The dark, sombre mood expressed in this photo is nothing like the reality of the scene on Llandudno's West Shore the day I took this photo.
The walkers and their dogs certainly wouldn't recognise this scene, which in fact was quite bright and cheerful with the tide out and the wet sand glistening in the sun.
Nothing was added, and nothing taken away from the scene to bring about this schizophrenic mood swing. All I did was darken the top half of the image to emphasise the clouds and make sure all foreground detail was in sillhouette.
A conversion to black and white completed the Jekyll to Hyde transformation, and a pleasant day at the beach became something much more sinister.
Why did I do this? Why take a normal everyday scene and so radically alter the mood? Because I wanted to basically. I found the original image to be nice, but lacking in character and I wanted to see just how much of a 'mood enrichment' I could achieve with a few basic changes to tonality and saturation.
Filename - beach couple 04.jpg
Camera - Canon 5D
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 105mm
Exposure - 1/800sec @ f11, ISO100
Location - Llandudno, North wales
This image - 640x800px JPEG
Conversion - ACR & PS-CS2
Comments - Image underexposed to render silhouettes.
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