Our Apprentice says…

When I first arrived at the beach, there were lots of wooden groynes, and as I struggled to find a composition, Michael offered his first advice: as a seascape photographer, I must make order out of chaos. I had to be selective, and remove everything I didn’t want. I wanted some foreground, so included the pebbles, but I also wanted to capture the wave lapping on the shore, so I set my shutter speed to 2.5 secs. This gave wonderful frothy streaks leading into the sea, but kept enough definition to show that a wave had just broken.