After Hours beach fun - Laguna Beach, CA

Pezpix

So, I wanted to challenge myself and guess how long the exposure would be at the very last light before total darkness...

...to my suprise, I was able to really push the limits of my exposure at dusk without really having to dramatically up my ISO beyond 400 as long as the exposure was at least 100 seconds.

So here's my best effort - ISO400, f4 @ 160 seconds using a split ND 3.0 grad filter effect.

schmoo

Wow! This is a very successful experiment if I do say so myself.

The red sky is very foreboding, but I love it. I also love the water and the reflections therein. It seems surreal that you'd see blue sky between the rocks, but red on the horizon.

To me this seems like a scene from Mordor or something, right out of a fantasy bad guy's shadowlands.

Nice work!

BeachBill

Nicely done, Pezpix!

Tee Why

I like hte colors. Nice.

Pezpix

schmoo wrote:

Wow! This is a very successful experiment if I do say so myself.

The red sky is very foreboding, but I love it. I also love the water and the reflections therein. It seems surreal that you'd see blue sky between the rocks, but red on the horizon.

To me this seems like a scene from Mordor or something, right out of a fantasy bad guy's shadowlands.

Nice work!

Yeah, I was pretty stoked on how well the shot turned out considering the factors that were going against it. The ISO noise was not nearly as bad as I expected, and even the sensor noise was manageable considering the situation.

The only downside was having to put three pieces of Lee split ND glass in front of the lens, making image quality go down just a bit, but the effect worked wonders and allowed me to hold back the background dusk enough to illuminate the foreground.