Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 823335" data-attributes="member: 53455">The little beach near Porto Flavia on the western coast of Sardinia, with the enormous Pan de Zucchero (“Sugar Loaf”) rock —which I personally dub “The Crouching Lion“. This is a 60-second exposure with ND1000, ND grad and polarizing filters attached on the lens. The filter system I used at the time was, I think, Wine Country Filters (see behind-the-scenes below). I have since then ditched that system which was very nice but too bulky and heavy, in favor of a NiSi one. During the exposure, I also shot a handheld Nikon SB–900 flash onto the rock in the foreground, at low power, just to give it a little bit of shine. I think I heard that technique called “open flash” somewhere. The flash was snooted with a piece of black tinfoil so the light wouldn’t spread.Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 24-70mm, ƒ/4 S lens. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head.[ATTACH=full]409424[/ATTACH]And two behind-the-scenes snaps:[ATTACH=full]409425[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]409426[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue439, post: 823335, member: 53455"] The little beach near Porto Flavia on the western coast of Sardinia, with the enormous Pan de Zucchero (“Sugar Loaf”) rock —which I personally dub “The Crouching Lion“. This is a 60-second exposure with ND1000, ND grad and polarizing filters attached on the lens. The filter system I used at the time was, I think, Wine Country Filters (see behind-the-scenes below). I have since then ditched that system which was very nice but too bulky and heavy, in favor of a NiSi one. During the exposure, I also shot a handheld Nikon SB–900 flash onto the rock in the foreground, at low power, just to give it a little bit of shine. I think I heard that technique called “open flash” somewhere. The flash was snooted with a piece of black tinfoil so the light wouldn’t spread. Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 24-70mm, ƒ/4 S lens. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. [ATTACH type="full"]409424[/ATTACH] And two behind-the-scenes snaps: [ATTACH type="full"]409425[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full"]409426[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

Verification