Post your seascapes
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Bikerbrent_RIP
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Right, I am sure it was the water of interest in this shot! :cheerful:
Where are you visiting?
Peter7100
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The beautiful island of sunny Malta
Enjoy!The beautiful island of sunny Malta
Blue439
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Devil’s Tower (2019)
In July 2019, we took a three-week trip to Portugal, one week on the mainland and two weeks in a rented house on the island of Madeira, in the middle of the Atlantic. That was our last “normal” Summer vacation before the Chinese virus hit in 2020 and we had to cancel our planned vacation in Crete in July 2020. It was also the last year my wife was still working and we had to go on vacation at the same time as everyone else. Nowadays we avoid going away in July and August...
Anyway, this picturesque sea stack is known (somewhat pompously) as “Devil’s Tower” by the locals on Madeira Island. Getting down to ocean level is via a series of narrow and very steep stairs carved into the cliffside. Climbing up and down is precarious at best, a lot more so with fragile photo equipment, and finding a place to setup a tripod for a long exposure is not easy —see the behind-the-scenes iPhone snapshot below...
Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 24-70mm, ƒ/4 S lens. Gitzo tripod and ball-head. Long exposure, ND1000 filter.
BTS snap:
In July 2019, we took a three-week trip to Portugal, one week on the mainland and two weeks in a rented house on the island of Madeira, in the middle of the Atlantic. That was our last “normal” Summer vacation before the Chinese virus hit in 2020 and we had to cancel our planned vacation in Crete in July 2020. It was also the last year my wife was still working and we had to go on vacation at the same time as everyone else. Nowadays we avoid going away in July and August...
Anyway, this picturesque sea stack is known (somewhat pompously) as “Devil’s Tower” by the locals on Madeira Island. Getting down to ocean level is via a series of narrow and very steep stairs carved into the cliffside. Climbing up and down is precarious at best, a lot more so with fragile photo equipment, and finding a place to setup a tripod for a long exposure is not easy —see the behind-the-scenes iPhone snapshot below...
Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 24-70mm, ƒ/4 S lens. Gitzo tripod and ball-head. Long exposure, ND1000 filter.
BTS snap:
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Clovishound
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Here's another of my current favorite tree at the Boneyard beach. It's similar to others I've posted, but each one is unique with changes in the waves, sun's position, clouds, and reflections in the wet sand. This one was made from 2, 5-shot, 1 stop increment, bracketed strings edited to a single HDR image. I normally only use one 5 shot, 1 stop increment strings, but I had taken 2 strings back to back, and decided to use them all this time. While this type of subject seems perfect for HDR, I find there is not that big a difference in the final image, over choosing the best exposure in a bracketed string. Sometimes the HDR is slightly better, and sometimes a single exposure edges out. I can generally get more detail in the tree with an HDR, but usually prefer to leave it more of a silhouette, for esthetic reasons. I also removed a few distracting stumps and branches to clean up the image a bit.
Have I mentioned, I'm not a landscape (seascape) photographer.
Have I mentioned, I'm not a landscape (seascape) photographer.
Well your doing a good job faking it.
Clovishound
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Even a blind hog finds an ear of corn every now and then.
Seeing @Clovishound's excellent seascape, I thought I'd post these of the Botany Bay "boneyard beach" on Edisto Island in South Carolina. I took these yesterday with my D5100.
Clovishound
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Nice.