Beach Pollution

[pharmer]

I've posted shots before from this disgusting beach near the Westgate. Its only 10 minutes from where I work - so its a good place to walk at lunchtime with the camera.

All shot with the 10-20 Sigma, high saturation and warm white balance set in camera on the D70s.

[owen]

Shot-wise they are nice and colourful and have good composition... however I think you should send them to the dude that runs the clean up australia campaign or somewhere, that's just wrong.

[macka]

Subejct is not very appealing. However, well-portrayed. You gotta love a wide angle.

[PiroStitch]

To be honest with you, this series of work is probably the weakest compared to the previous pics you've put up for critique. It's a difficult subject to photograph and make interesting, but maybe try revisiting the area and see what else you can photograph.

I quite like the style you have Pharmer and I can see where your influences have come from judging by your links on Flickr.

[Manta]

I really like the composition of these shots and, technically, they're spot on but, to me, the high saturation seems to lend a kiddy-like, carnival atmosphere to a rather nasty scene. I think the opposite effect, i.e. a draining of the colour, may have had more impact. Just the weird way I look at things, I suppose.

[pharmer]

Thanks for your thoughts

For interest, I replaced the shoe image with a desaturated version of the original

The comparison between colours of the images is quite startling.

[macka]

Wow, makes quite a difference. Not something I thought of, but I think it's better that way (desaturated).

[byrt_001]

hi

great shots, these shots should be email to the minister/dept of tourism or conservation, to those politicians that never get out of their offices.

thanks for sharing,


christian

[Manta]

That's much more like the mood I would expect, Barrie. In the original images, I half expected The Wiggles to come bounding in and start singing a "clean-up' song.

The shots would also lend themselves really well to a stark, grainy black and white, something like the way Matt K does some of his street stuff or Sheila's PPing of some of her homeless images.