Thank you for all the comments yesterday! I am feeling much better today.
This umbrella is part of a wedding arrangement on the beach in Santa Barbara. We just stumbled upon this. It was not the wedding we were attending. I cloned out a small army of people cluttering up the beach on the right, but thought that picking up the umbrella theme in the background on the left would enhance the shot.
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Thank you for all the comments yesterday! I am feeling much better today.
This umbrella is part of a wedding arrangement on the beach in Santa Barbara. We just stumbled upon this. It was not the wedding we were attending. I cloned out a small army of people cluttering up the beach on the right, but thought that picking up the umbrella theme in the background on the left would enhance the shot.
Lovely!
Looks to me like you are up to tricks, Martin. The umbrella looks suspiciously like the miniature ones that are used to decorate fancy drinks, and is that a "wedding guest" rock taking advantage of the shade?
Martin: LOL, caught red handed! I really shot this in my sandbox I think the wedding guests decided that high heels work marginally better on grass than sand and abandoned this site to roving photographers in sandals and of course the wedding rock with the delicate skin.
I think you made a wise choice there on getting rid of the people but keeping the other umbrellas.
Yeah, i'm not usually a fan of using photoshop filters, but i did that one & liked it. If i do use the filters i usually do alot more work than just one click. I used photoshop to try to give my photos a different feel, i often try to give my photos a non digital feel (or as this one was today something playful) - except on the pinholes, they are left untouched in less its to darken the blacks b/c my scanner does not do a good job at that.