Garrapata Seascapes: Sunset and Blue Hour

StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins
edited January 31, 2014 in Landscapes
Scouted it for a meetup and found some good light. Will go back there next weekend. All criticism cherished! Need to get better!

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Comments

  • Alpha_PlusAlpha_Plus Registered Users Posts: 253 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2014
    Fantastic light! I just have a few processing comments that popped out at me...

    The water is a bit odd in a few of them though (4, 5, 7, 8) I don’t know if this is from blending multiple exposures?

    The second looks a little odd with the island in the background (halo from blending) don’t know what’s caused that.

    Third. Fantastic clap.gif

    4th. slight halo around the cliff just above the water line.

    Also, a few of them have a bit of flare or dust on the glass - it’s evident over the middle-left of frame in the darker areas.

    Great set from an awesome location. All the best next weekend!
    Karl Lindsay
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  • StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2014
    Alpha_Plus wrote: »
    Fantastic light! I just have a few processing comments that popped out at me...

    The water is a bit odd in a few of them though (4, 5, 7, 8) I don’t know if this is from blending multiple exposures?

    The second looks a little odd with the island in the background (halo from blending) don’t know what’s caused that.

    Third. Fantastic clap.gif

    4th. slight halo around the cliff just above the water line.

    Also, a few of them have a bit of flare or dust on the glass - it’s evident over the middle-left of frame in the darker areas.

    Great set from an awesome location. All the best next weekend!

    Thanks Alpha! Much appreciate detailed feedback. Now that you pointed out I can see the halo on 4th. Blending long exposures was probably not best idea. I will try to do faster exposure next time and see if it makes a difference.

    The dust effect is actually the waves crashing and in my experience for long exposure to catch something solid, it has to stay there for a while and since that was not the case, it just leaves a mark. Need to play with it more. I tried to dampen localized exposure there. Probably should have done some more but got caught with not loosing details.
  • kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,681 moderator
    edited January 27, 2014
    I've been wondering how the coast was with these great skies we've been having. Now I know! Awesome set, my friend. bowdown.gif
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  • Alpha_PlusAlpha_Plus Registered Users Posts: 253 Major grins
    edited January 27, 2014
    Stumblebum wrote: »
    The dust effect is actually the waves crashing and in my experience for long exposure to catch something solid, it has to stay there for a while and since that was not the case, it just leaves a mark. Need to play with it more. I tried to dampen localized exposure there. Probably should have done some more but got caught with not loosing details.

    Ah right.. yeah that makes sense. It just looked strange because the water does not seem to be rough right beneath those areas. IMO the mist can look good if there's a lot of it, rather than just the odd spot of spray.

    With the halos, you shouldn't have trouble with the different exposure lengths, as long as you've metered for zero on both of them at the same spot. Local adjustments are usually the cause there, but you can use the burn tool in PS to fix them most of the time..
    Karl Lindsay
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  • TravelTravel Registered Users Posts: 276 Major grins
    edited January 27, 2014
    Beautiful!
  • StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins
    edited January 28, 2014
    Travel wrote: »
    Beautiful!
    Jeffbridge wrote: »
    Gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous


    Thanks guys!
  • CornflakeCornflake Registered Users Posts: 3,346 Major grins
    edited January 28, 2014
    Very nice!

    In 1, 2, 3 and 6, you appear to have some blown highlights where I assume the sun was lurking behind a cloud. You might bracket and then blend the underexposed image into the highlights manually to solve that. I hate doing it and I'm not very skilled at it, but it works.
    Don
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  • EaracheEarache Registered Users Posts: 3,533 Major grins
    edited January 28, 2014
    # 7 is my fave... the mood and colors are surreal. clap.gif
    Maybe shift the POV a smidgen to the right and get some more of the
    wonderful colors and textures on-shore.
    Eric ~ Smugmug
  • StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins
    edited January 28, 2014
    Cornflake wrote: »
    Very nice!

    In 1, 2, 3 and 6, you appear to have some blown highlights where I assume the sun was lurking behind a cloud. You might bracket and then blend the underexposed image into the highlights manually to solve that. I hate doing it and I'm not very skilled at it, but it works.

    Thanks Don! I thought it was blown but LR was telling me nothing was clipped but it might have been confused. I should have dampened it locally. Thanks for feedback. I know what to look for next time!
  • StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins
    edited January 28, 2014
    Earache wrote: »
    # 7 is my fave... the mood and colors are surreal. clap.gif
    Maybe shift the POV a smidgen to the right and get some more of the
    wonderful colors and textures on-shore.

    Thanks Eric! Always generous!
  • black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,323 Major grins
    edited January 28, 2014
    Very credible work. thumb.gif I'm particularly drawn to numbers 3 and 6....very similar but I'd vote for 3 because of the additional sky that is shown.

    Tom
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  • EiaEia Registered Users Posts: 3,627 Major grins
    edited January 28, 2014
    6 and 7 for me but they are all terrific! The water looks so violent but soothing if that makes sense. I do appreciate the photographer in the pics too. Now and again people elements show me a bit more perspective and what goes on!
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  • StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins
    edited January 28, 2014
    black mamba wrote: »
    Very credible work. thumb.gif I'm particularly drawn to numbers 3 and 6....very similar but I'd vote for 3 because of the additional sky that is shown.

    Tom

    Thanks Tom!
  • StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins
    edited January 28, 2014
    Eia wrote: »
    6 and 7 for me but they are all terrific! The water looks so violent but soothing if that makes sense. I do appreciate the photographer in the pics too. Now and again people elements show me a bit more perspective and what goes on!

    Thanks Anna! I went there to do long exposures, but forgot the ND filter at home. So the relatively long exposure that I could do by stopping down in dwindling light, caused pretty gnarly waves to be sort of smoothed out, yet capture some of their motion, and it kind of works.

    What real objective for was to mimic so many photos of the year that show up in Dgrin's list. I see sunset colors, some rocks in foreground and creamy water. So eventually I want to recreate some of it.

    Didn't do great on blending and wanted some feedback as I did something that I have never attempted before, and thanks to everyone, picked up bunch of important pointers to at least minimize flaws in future! Cheers!
  • CornflakeCornflake Registered Users Posts: 3,346 Major grins
    edited January 29, 2014
    If you're trying to learn blending, you might want to read Marc Muench's book on North American Landscapes. It discusses the subject in minute detail.
    Don
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  • StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins
    edited January 29, 2014
    Cornflake wrote: »
    If you're trying to learn blending, you might want to read Marc Muench's book on North American Landscapes. It discusses the subject in minute detail.

    Thanks Don! I may have to do online tutorial or something also! Appreciate pointers/recommendations very much! Cheers!
  • anwmn1anwmn1 Registered Users Posts: 3,469 Major grins
    edited January 30, 2014
    Dang- drove right past this while i was in CA with kdog. Wish we would have stopped to shoot sunset here. Looks like a great area!

    Of this set I prefer #3 the most. Love the foreground plants and the water movement. The last 4 are bit over processed for my taste. #7 is a great scene but as mentioned a little over processed IMO.
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  • StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins
    edited January 30, 2014
    anwmn1 wrote: »
    Dang- drove right past this while i was in CA with kdog. Wish we would have stopped to shoot sunset here. Looks like a great area!

    Of this set I prefer #3 the most. Love the foreground plants and the water movement. The last 4 are bit over processed for my taste. #7 is a great scene but as mentioned a little over processed IMO.

    Thanks for feedback! I will show this place to kdog soon hopefully. I knew I had processing issues and part of the objective was to get confirmation that was the case and get feedback. I will try again soon and hope to get good light. Cheers!
  • bocoboco Registered Users Posts: 710 Major grins
    edited January 31, 2014
    heel mooie beelden.
    grt,boco.
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  • StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins
    edited January 31, 2014
    boco wrote: »
    heel mooie beelden.
    grt,boco.

    Bedanken!
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