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couldn't have you got a bit closer fella? lol Last 2 are my favourite as you see a bit more of the lighthouse plus more wave, whereabouts is this? Fed up of the rain. Has not stopped. sigh.
 
Definitely the last one for me... Impressive waves
 
Carlh said:
couldn't have you got a bit closer fella? lol Last 2 are my favourite as you see a bit more of the lighthouse plus more wave, whereabouts is this? Fed up of the rain. Has not stopped. sigh.
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Thanks fella. Was about as close as I could get, even then I was taking a risk:). These were taken with the 24-105L so no massive zoom. I was probably no more than 30-40 feet from the nearest wave.

I tried to get some shots with the lighthouse showing and some with it covered just to depict the height and power of the breakers.

It's Aberdeen harbour entrance south breakwater.
 
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I think the frame is powerful in my #4 pick, great capture of a spectacular wave.
The take, though, has a lot more quality in the recorded data than revealed here
as some WB, DRL and straightening tweaking would bring out all the dramatic
character of the scene in a true to life rendition.
 
Cracking shots. At last some seascapes without the smoothy water effect! :exit:
 
#4 for me as well as I think you need to see the height of the lighthouse in 3 & 4 to give more scale to 1 & 2 with the top just sticking out from the waves. Primal!
 
BRASH said:
Thanks fella. Was about as close as I could get, even then I was taking a risk:). These were taken with the 24-105L so no massive zoom. I was probably no more than 30-40 feet from the nearest wave.

I tried to get some shots with the lighthouse showing and some with it covered just to depict the height and power of the breakers.

It's Aberdeen harbour entrance south breakwater.
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:O you were close. Blimey!
 
#4 for me although personally I think it might suit a square crop and some levels and curves might produce an even more striking image but well done getting out there to capture these
 
Safety first. This looks difficult to take for the obvious reason. Getting closer makes it more dangerous for the shooter, and more likely to get spray on the lens or worse the camera soaked.

It's under exposed by around 1 stop and as such the dynamism from the scene is lost as it looks dark and faded.

Lift the exposure, then tweak curves/levels to make it pop out more.
 
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ST4 said:
Safety first. This looks difficult to take for the obvious reason. Getting closer makes it more dangerous for the shooter, and more likely to get spray on the lens or worse the camera soaked.

It's under exposed by around 1 stop and as such the dynamism from the scene is lost as it looks dark and faded.

Lift the exposure, then tweak curves/levels to make it pop out more.
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Agreed, then turn black and white, make it timeless :)
 
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cracking shots and well worth getting out and about in such miserable weather

the last one...is really the best...thought i saw one like this on the bbc weather programme

cheers
geof
 
ST4 said:
Safety first. This looks difficult to take for the obvious reason. Getting closer makes it more dangerous for the shooter, and more likely to get spray on the lens or worse the camera soaked.

It's under exposed by around 1 stop and as such the dynamism from the scene is lost as it looks dark and faded.

Lift the exposure, then tweak curves/levels to make it pop out more.
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Cheers Steve. Yeh, you're right underexposed. I deliberately underexposed them so as not to lose the whites. I did pull them back a bit in pp but obviously not enough. I haven't adjusted levels an curves tho, will bear that in mind.

As for safety, I'm mental and a thrill seeker. The North Sea is but a whimper compared to me;)
 
tweak?....no way!
its full of power and quite normal for me
 
BRASH said:
Cheers Steve. Yeh, you're right underexposed. I deliberately underexposed them so as not to lose the whites. I did pull them back a bit in pp but obviously not enough. I haven't adjusted levels an curves tho, will bear that in mind.

As for safety, I'm mental and a thrill seeker. The North Sea is but a whimper compared to me;)
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My tip for landscape is to ETTR.

I don't know if you check your histogram data as you shoot but it's best to get it as far over to the right without clipping as possible. If you have a live view histogram mode, use that ;)

Geoff has quoted a post/series of images. The best one composition wise is the last. The more diagonal angle to the waves brings out the drama and leads the viewers eyes more naturally in. There's less clutter in the front too. That's the one to work on, just bin the rest.

With landscape it's best to take a few different angles once there then pick just one that's compositionally the best once home, work on it and bin the others.
 
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