Southwest England Seascapes... C&C please

lnorm

I have recently returned from a great roadtrip around the southwest coast of England. This was my first chance to use my new ND and grad ND filters and I couldn't think of a better location. I've added all the 'keepers' from this trip to my 'England' Album. I also put a bit of a story about the trip on my blog.

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I definitely learnt a few things from this trip. Most important was to keep my filters clean. On a few of my photos it looked like a plague of fireflies had just invaded.

Any ideas on how I can improve these types of photos in the future will be greatfully recieved.

Thanks for looking

karlabbott

I really like #1 and #4! Excellent work You certainly picked an excellent location to test out ND grad filters

For images of the sun right at the horizon, you may be interested in looking into reverse gnd filters. I haven't bought any of those yet, but if you look at the design, they are certainly better for that time of the day as they'll keep more of the natural gradiation in the image. They start out light then get dark in the middle and go clear below that.

Cheers,
Karl

lnorm

karlabbott wrote: »

I really like #1 and #4! Excellent work You certainly picked an excellent location to test out ND grad filters

For images of the sun right at the horizon, you may be interested in looking into reverse gnd filters. I haven't bought any of those yet, but if you look at the design, they are certainly better for that time of the day as they'll keep more of the natural gradiation in the image. They start out light then get dark in the middle and go clear below that.

Cheers,
Karl

Hi Karl, thanks for your comments. I probably should have mentioned it in my original post, but I was actually using a reverse gnd filter for some of these. My memory's a bit hazy but I'm pretty sure I had it on for both 1 and 4.

karlabbott

Awesome! #1 made me wonder as the sky is darker up top, but now that I look at it, that's only on the right and not on the left side of the image. So to think that it was off was wrong on my part.

Absolutely wonderful images

FlyNavy

Very nice work.

Chris02

Really like number 4, never used NDs myself as I tend to rely on Lightroom, I'll get there some day.