Scott Rubey
Turn of the Tide, Olympic Ntl Park, WA
During a photo trip to Olympic National Park earlier this year, I decided to scope out Rialto Beach and confirm what I'd heard about one of its trademark sea-stacks having recently collapsed. During my hike up the beach, I played with a few different foregrounds with my wide angle lens. The dreaded marine layer quashed any hope of dramatic sunset light, but the sensuality of the water juxtaposed with the almost gothic looking sea-stacks in the background fit perfectly with my idea for a moody black-and-white. For this image, I manually blended foreground and background exposures in Photoshop, then converted to black-and-white using Lightroom.
Turn of the Tide, Olympic Ntl Park, WA
During a photo trip to Olympic National Park earlier this year, I decided to scope out Rialto Beach and confirm what I'd heard about one of its trademark sea-stacks having recently collapsed. During my hike up the beach, I played with a few different foregrounds with my wide angle lens. The dreaded marine layer quashed any hope of dramatic sunset light, but the sensuality of the water juxtaposed with the almost gothic looking sea-stacks in the background fit perfectly with my idea for a moody black-and-white. For this image, I manually blended foreground and background exposures in Photoshop, then converted to black-and-white using Lightroom.