Mark Metternich
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Thank you, everyone, for taking the time to comment. It is very encouraging! 
Sunny Sra wrote:
Another incredible shot brotha! dayum
Huge thank you Sunny! I get bored of the same old approaches and am always trying something different. Once in a while it works...
Chuck D wrote:
That's another beautiful shot Mark! Blue hour light can be so lovely and so flattering to the landscape. Thanks for sharing this example and your thought process around exposure calculation.
Thank you Chuck! My pleasure. I hope you and your family are doing great!
junglialoh wrote:
Outstanding photographic work
Gigantic thank you!
jforkner wrote:
Nice comp, but exposure is too long IMO. I rather see more detail in the water.
Jack
Thank you, Jack. I admit I am a little skewed from photographing, evaluating photography and processing gallery prints full time for so long. I just get bored with the same typical approaches and like to try to see what else can be done sometimes. The effects of the long exposure on the entire scene including the soft, swirling water and wildly streaked clouds made me really enjoy and want to process this one! But, of course, with art different strokes for different folks. I totally get that.
Richard6340 wrote:
Can you tell us more about the procedure to use s dark frame in camera to reduce noise? How is this done and why does it work?
Sure thing! I love to share this stuff and help when I can!
Most cameras have an automatic in-camera noise reduction for high ISO shots. The camera takes an immediate second frame (dark frame) of the same duration with the curtain closed (no light in the camera). It allows the camera to detect noise and hot pixels and to a significant degree cancel them out! I use it a lot on high ISO shots with very good results.
As I was leading The Ultimate Pacific Northwest (Spring) Workshop 2 years ago, we had quite a bit of foggy grey clouds going on at Bandon Beach. My fellow adventurers were not really sure what to do with the apparently boring conditions. So, I said "lets experiment!" We had a blast trying a lot of non-conventional approaches, and at some point I told everyone I was going to see how long of an exposure I could get with the Sony A7r2, to blur out the ocean and clouds completely (shooting a popular sea stack rock with waves crashing around it). Most of the attendees and I played with the technique together side by side. It was so fun! Well, I went well over 20 minutes, for a shot and before I tried it I remembered the in-camera noise reduction (dark frame) and thought, what the heck, I might as well see if it helps! I had never heard of anyone doing this before.
After the shot was over (like 21 minutes or something like that) the camera began its second frame. We were literally all back at out hotel rooms before our dark frames had finished!!! The files were amazing!!!
I really like those extremely long black and white exposures you see in black and white magazines (contests...) from time to time, but digital has always been pretty limited on the duration of exposure (WAY too much noise). Well, I have a 100ISO shots at over 20 minutes that have very little noise in them!!! That opens up a whole new territory for me and many others... So, don't stop shooting! Try stuff out of the box! Work twilight to its max, IMO.
I hope that helps.
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