New deals posted everyday, starting Black Friday and running through the holiday season! No hassles, no lines - just awesome savings on art, deviantWEAR, Premium Memberships and more!
Artist's Comments
..that rare fulfilling joy when in the presence of some wonderful alignment of events.
Where the light, the colour, the shapes and the balance all interlock so beautifully Charlie Waite Location There are times in landscape photography when everything just works so well its as if it was meant to happen, as if its happening just so we can witness it and photograph it. Of course there are a lot more times when it simply doesnt work, when the light isnt right, the clouds are in the wrong place, its just not possible to get the composition to work, the tide isnt where we want it to be, or so many of a multitude of things beyond our control. I guess this is the attraction of landscape photography for me, the fact that it cant be forced, it takes patience and more patience but then when it comes together we get to witness something truly unique and beautiful, and if were prepared, landscape photography gives us the chance to interact and become part of it. This is the second shot Im submitting from an evening a few weeks ago when I drove to Carrasquira to photograph the sunsets across the estuary of the river Sado and its network of fishermens piers. The other shot can be seen here [link] This collapsed pier really caught my eye, and as I peered through the viewfinder trying to compose a shot around it, I noticed that the cumulus clouds above were formed into a curve that exactly mirrored the curve of the pier infront of me. Its those moments that give me a rush when Im with my camera, knowing that a 250km round trip for one hours shooting was worth it, and I couldnt help but smile when I clicked the shutter Technique I took this shot with a 9 stop neutral density filter, which completely darkens the viewfinder when its on the camera, so the composition and placing of grad filters has to be done first. Composition was limited to making sure that there was nothing touching the edges, as there were lots of pieces of wood protruding from the bottom and I wanted the edges of the frame to be as clear as possible. I was standing on an adjacent pier, which limited my movements and where I could put the camera, but I wanted to make sure that the relationship between the sky and the pier was apparent. I chose to use the 9 stop ND400 filter as I think that in a shot of a pier long exposures work as they smooth out the water, eliminating the visual noise of ripples and allowing the textures of the wood to become more apparent. Before putting this on though I measured the range of exposures in the scene with the spot meter and decided to use two 3-stop neutral density filters to balance the sky with the foreground and the water. It's important that the graduation lines of the ND grad filter are lined up along the horizon so I put the ND grad filters in place first, and then removed the whole grad filter holder with the grads still in it, before screwing in the ND400 and then putting the grads back in place. I added 9 stops to the exposure Id measured earlier, which gave me an exposure of 1 minute, but as the filter has a tendency to underexpose, and as there was no direct light source in the shot to blow highlights, I added another minute to make sure. As with the other shot I submitted from here, the pier I was standing on was very rickety and moved a lot, so I sat down behind the tripod and didnt move at all for the 2 minute exposure Post Processing Again, theres very little change to this image as it appeared from the camera. I shot RAW and Ive slightly altered contrast level, added a frame and title and resized. These are the colours I saw that evening. I then sharpened it a little for the web. Metadata Taken at Carrasqueira, Alentejo, Portugal Nikon D80 | Sigma 10-20mm | Nikon Cable release Manfrotto 190XProB w/ 322RC2 ballhead Hoya ND400 (9 stop) | Lee 0.9 (3 stop) hard GND | Cokin ND8 (3 stop) soft GND 118 seconds | f8 | 18mm Workflow in Apple Aperture. Frame and title in PS |
Details
November 13, 2007
119 KB 119 KB 534×800 StatisticsShare
Link
Embed
Thumb
|
Comments
--
Design Account
Member of Tgk
mas o melhor nem sempre é a foto, mas a forma como a complementas com todos os detalhes que envolveram a foto
parabéns
--
When vacuuming, one must resist the goldfish bowl.
Join the UAE deviants group on Facebook, [link]
--
"Never let yesterday's disappointments overshadow tomorrow's dreams..."
--
alis aquilae
'but smile when I clicked the shutter ' - this is the best that we can get with photography - gratitude for what we are seeing. *
--
Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, Jesus! This cup is expensive!
~ Conan OBrien
--
TONY ELIEH
[link]
Previous Page12345...Next Page