Sea Side Experiments

I went to the sea side with some family to celebrate some god news and took my camera with me so I could have a play on some of the settings it has. The camera is only a normal digital camera but I've wanted to play with the colour swap settings and accenting for a while and a bright day at the beach seemed a good time to have a go.

Lovely day out. Nice and bright and lots of colour going on but a bit boring.

After I played with the settings I got some of these:

These ones I took the vibrance out of the shot and added more grey tones. However I wanted to play more so went to colour swap and for my last shots exchanged all blue hues for greys, keeping warm hues. I think that these last two partially worked well. The lack of colour with the beige tones sweeping throughout really work effectively, especially in the last one.

While I was taking photos I also noticed the patterns on the rocks which had formed. I took some photos and loved how they came out. To me they look like charcoal drawings. 

These shots, purely accidental are, I think, the most interesting of the day. The top image has a lovely sense of movement which I try to have in my own drawings.  It also reminds me of the drape of fabric, like its about to fall off rock any moment.