Case study: Portwrinkle

I have been pursuing a few personal photo projects lately. One of them being photographing a beach twenty minutes from where I live called Portwrinkle. It's a beautiful place which I often visit to snorkel and surf. I'v never really been able to capture it in a way I'v wanted to, so I spent an evenings here with with the aim of producing a set of seascape images for use on my stock websites and print gallery. My good friend Beckie who often assists me with my wedding shoots also joined me for this trip.



In this image I wanted to find a composition where I could show the harbour and the curve of the beach. It was difficult to get this but I managed to climb on a wall to gain some hight, and although I had to crop some of harbour out I was happy with the overall balance to this shot.



This is a composition I always crave for with my seascapes. I love to capture movement in the scene as well as depth. In this case that movement came with the foreground waves. I tried to create some depth using the pier wall and rock as foreground with the distant headland to add some scale and depth.

Altogether a really fun and productive shoot. If you enjoyed looking at these seascape pictures I have more of my work in my gallery on my website: www.mattstansfield.com.