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Hi,

not a sunset, but around that time. The headland here is called Redhead and that is why, on a sunset, the cliff really comes out. Hope the colours do come out on your monitors as well. (I'll eventually get mine calibrated).


D70s, Tokina 12-24, CPL


On this one, I replaced the CPL with an ND4 filter to get the silky water.

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Comments appreciated.

Cheers,

André

André

While I like both of these, the first is better - probably becasue of it's composition. You've managed to balance the bright cliffs with the dark rocks at the bottom which makes the cliffs that little bit more dramatic. In the second pic there is a little too much tension between the very bright RHS and the quite dark LHS which causes my eyes to hunt around the picture.

Andre Sadly niether of these work too well on my CRTs at work, I might try again at home on the LCD, but these aren't doing anything for me here at work. The colours are muddy and lifeless Niether CRTs are calibrated so I'd take more heed of stubbsy's evaluation.

Shot #2 definitely has some potential, but I think Stubbsy has summed it up well.

I know you've got a cokin filter holder and a grad ND for it. Is your ND4 a cokin or a screw on type? Can the cokin hold 2 different filters at once?

(begin random exposure speculation)
I think if you had a screw on ND 4 on to extend the exposure time, and a cokin/slide in type grad ND adjusted over the bright sky area it would have evened out the exposure. You could have then brought up the colours on the horizon a bit.
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Did you bracket the exposure by any chance? a multi-exposure layer blend might be able to recover some of the cloud detail.

thanks for the good comments,

daniel_r wrote:I know you've got a cokin filter holder and a grad ND for it. Is your ND4 a cokin or a screw on type? Can the cokin hold 2 different filters at once?

Cokin type ND4 but I have the slimline version that holds just one filter so that I wouldn't get vignetting with my WA lens. But I was thinking of getting the multi holder next time I'm at a camera shop that has them.

(begin random exposure speculation)
I think if you had a screw on ND 4 on to extend the exposure time, and a cokin/slide in type grad ND adjusted over the bright sky area it would have evened out the exposure. You could have then brought up the colours on the horizon a bit.
(end)

Did you bracket the exposure by any chance? a multi-exposure layer blend might be able to recover some of the cloud detail.

I'll have to have a go at bracketing exposures, as you say, I would have gotten more detail in the sky and would not have been as bright, addressing Peter's comment.

I'll get a different composition on the cliff as well, get it a bit more "in your face".

thanks,

André