GIZTO29
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I'm really keen on Seascape stuff and am tring to work my way along our coastline in the North East at the minute. Yesterday i managed to pop down to Seaton Sluice which is the beach connected to Blyth Beach which was in my previous thread. It has beautiful sand and at the end there's a groyn near a small burn outlet.
Flash Earth - Zoom into satellite and aerial imagery of the Earth in Flash
This was where i wanted to photograph and the tide was in which was pretty important for the type of photo i was after, i had checked the photographers ephemeris which i was told about the other night The Photographer's Ephemeris | Plan your shoot and knew that the sunset was at 3.55pm so was hoping to catch some pink clouds and sky. All of the clouds were at Tynemouth along the coast though but we had a pink sky beginning to appear. I got there at 3.30 and damn was it cold!! Ive also bought a crystal ball about a month ago and hadn't really had the opportunity to use it so i was armed with that aswell. I took some shots with that first. Its quite tricky getting the aperture right to create the right focus on the ball and blur the rest and also you get a reflection in the ball which i would like to avoid in future.
I then added firstly my 10 stop Heliopan ND Filter for a 30 second exposure.
After using that i felt i would like to get more movement in the water so it looks like its wooshing back towards the sea. I switched to an ND8 Filter (3 Stops) and took a few shorter exposures of around 5 seconds.
Ideally i think 1-2 seconds would've been better but i couldnt achieve it. I should've tried a 1 or 2 stop but at this point my wife was looking a slightly blue colour and i couldnt feel my fingers so we retreated back to the car!
Im pretty happy with the outcome as its all a learning curve but i really want to get some sunset photos next time. I think im getting a bit frustrated as im comparing mine to photos on Flickr which are so damn good! Something to aim for though isnt it!
Thanks for looking, c & c welcome
Phil
Flash Earth - Zoom into satellite and aerial imagery of the Earth in Flash
This was where i wanted to photograph and the tide was in which was pretty important for the type of photo i was after, i had checked the photographers ephemeris which i was told about the other night The Photographer's Ephemeris | Plan your shoot and knew that the sunset was at 3.55pm so was hoping to catch some pink clouds and sky. All of the clouds were at Tynemouth along the coast though but we had a pink sky beginning to appear. I got there at 3.30 and damn was it cold!! Ive also bought a crystal ball about a month ago and hadn't really had the opportunity to use it so i was armed with that aswell. I took some shots with that first. Its quite tricky getting the aperture right to create the right focus on the ball and blur the rest and also you get a reflection in the ball which i would like to avoid in future.
I then added firstly my 10 stop Heliopan ND Filter for a 30 second exposure.
After using that i felt i would like to get more movement in the water so it looks like its wooshing back towards the sea. I switched to an ND8 Filter (3 Stops) and took a few shorter exposures of around 5 seconds.
Ideally i think 1-2 seconds would've been better but i couldnt achieve it. I should've tried a 1 or 2 stop but at this point my wife was looking a slightly blue colour and i couldnt feel my fingers so we retreated back to the car!
Im pretty happy with the outcome as its all a learning curve but i really want to get some sunset photos next time. I think im getting a bit frustrated as im comparing mine to photos on Flickr which are so damn good! Something to aim for though isnt it!
Thanks for looking, c & c welcome
Phil