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Hello All,
Photographing coastal areas is never boring. Tides, weather and rain run offs all change the landscape constantly. I was fortunate with this photo, that rain run offs carved out a river right through the arch way and into the sea. So here lies the demarcation of fresh meets salt water .
Techy stuff: No focus stack but a lot of DR blending. So 3 exposures for water, 2 for clouds and sun star, 1 for archway.
Awesome job! Really good light balance and PP. My goal for 2015 is to learn exposure blending. HDR never seems to work for me and selective adjustments in LR are ok for web but can be lacking for larger prints.
Thanks Phil, Scott, Jim, Klaus, Craig, Steve, Huibo, Aaron, Ryan for the comments and votes! Much appreciated.
dalongfellow wrote:
Very nicely put together--makes me think I would have seen it the same way with my eye, had I been there. Well done.
Dave
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Thanks Dave. I tried my best when editing the photo to keep it close to what I saw as well without going overboard with the editing.
dswiger wrote:
Jason,
Very nicely captured & processed.
Did you visit this last week?
Dan
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Dan this was last week. We were originally going to go shoot the crack but you couldn't make it. I texted that the clouds were great a panther :P
Gary Clennan wrote:
Awesome job! Really good light balance and PP. My goal for 2015 is to learn exposure blending. HDR never seems to work for me and selective adjustments in LR are ok for web but can be lacking for larger prints.
Thanks Gary. I like many others went through the pains of HDR. I also sunk money into those tools but I never got it right as well. The HDR photos weren't my cup of tea and I started back to square 1 with photoshop. I basically youtubed a lot of instructions and bought a few as well. Tony Kuyper luminosity masks is very helpful. I also picked up Mike Metternich's Blending for dynamic range using blend-if video. So I use a combination of both depending on what the scene calls for. Good luck with your learning adventure!
