Reply To: how can i improve, ocean water, how many seconds and some problems

[Bill]

What are you doing in my part of town? just kidding.  La Jolla is always a nice area to shoot.
This area you are shooting looks to be just South of the Children’s Pool, correct?

Well the longer you open the shutter, the more misty the water will look.  You’ll lose the finer details in the waves due to the longer exposure, but it will look more mystical if I had to put a label on it.

According to your settings, the shutter was only open for 1″ @ f/22, is this right? I “assume” you were using a ND filter or similar shooting directly into the sun?

I made a tiny quick edit [4 minutes] using a screenshot, so I am a little limited to what I could do.  I would stick with color on this, there is too much similarity in color to really do it any good, but that is just my opinion.

Maybe a different vantage point, leading lines or some dramatic textures to make the image pop.