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Surging sea off Lower Bay, Bequia
Over the last 48 hours the sea has been surging wildly, crashing into anything it can find. If you walk along the Belmont Walkway in the main harbour, Admiralty Bay, at the moment, you take your life in your hands ... and camera equipment too, as the water crashes and splashes over your heads.
Down at Lower Bay, which is the most exposed of the bays here to this type of swell, the water has been washing the beach, completely clear of any human existence.... no footprints in the sand here at the mo. There was evidence this morning of the sea actually clearing the beach head and running out into the roads behind, which we all hope will stop asap as many local live near here.
To try and control the white water surging up and down the beach, I hid under one of the Almond Trees that line the beach, not only for shade, but as the shadow pattern provided a break from the white, white, white, of the surge.
The job today was to slow everything down. The Big Stopper was too strong, so I used a selection of filters and the ISO to achieve the 0.6 secs shutter I was after. The soft grad filter was useful today to take the edge of the bright water as it ran up the beach. Not ideal due to the hills in the background, but worked better than the hard.
Nikon D7000, Sigma 10-20mm @20mm, ISO800, 0.6secs, Lee Polariser, Lee 0.9NDSG, Lee 1.2 ND
Surging sea off Lower Bay, Bequia
Over the last 48 hours the sea has been surging wildly, crashing into anything it can find. If you walk along the Belmont Walkway in the main harbour, Admiralty Bay, at the moment, you take your life in your hands ... and camera equipment too, as the water crashes and splashes over your heads.
Down at Lower Bay, which is the most exposed of the bays here to this type of swell, the water has been washing the beach, completely clear of any human existence.... no footprints in the sand here at the mo. There was evidence this morning of the sea actually clearing the beach head and running out into the roads behind, which we all hope will stop asap as many local live near here.
To try and control the white water surging up and down the beach, I hid under one of the Almond Trees that line the beach, not only for shade, but as the shadow pattern provided a break from the white, white, white, of the surge.
The job today was to slow everything down. The Big Stopper was too strong, so I used a selection of filters and the ISO to achieve the 0.6 secs shutter I was after. The soft grad filter was useful today to take the edge of the bright water as it ran up the beach. Not ideal due to the hills in the background, but worked better than the hard.
Nikon D7000, Sigma 10-20mm @20mm, ISO800, 0.6secs, Lee Polariser, Lee 0.9NDSG, Lee 1.2 ND