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This one is for Steph. Happy super belated birthday mon grincheux :)
As I was setting up for this (crouched behind my camera wearing shells none the less) a gentleman walked by and wanted to know what I was shooting. "Mermaids". So he turned quickly back towards the water with a hand shading his eyes while looking intently out to sea and in a surprised voice told me he hadn't seen any today.
made my evening ;D
and the tail is for the Beebs as requested
Shell Beach is a little North of Pismo Beach. The area sits above the water on some cliffs that give a pretty good view of the Pacific Ocean. The rock features and tide pools offer a nice foreground for landscapes.
This was my second attempt at getting a nice sunset picture in the area. The previous night I tried at the Montana de Oro State Park. There weren't many clouds in the sky on either night, but the smoke from the L. A. area fires blew this direction and made for interesting color on the horizon.
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3 nights in a row with no clouds, no fog, no nothin'. Then I remembered, those boring skies are perfect for astrophotography!
Matt Granz and I jumped in the car and just started driving north on 101 until it got dark. We made it to Sonoma County, a bit north of Bodega Bay, when it got too dark to see any more of the coastline, so we hunkered down at Shell Beach to look for our Milky Way shot.
With no moon and no city lights anywhere, it was plenty dark, oh and the tide was coming in fast, so we had to hop back a few times to keep from being lost at sea. A little unnerving because you cannot even see the waves that are about to crash until they are right there.
This is a 5-frame pano using the Pentax FA31/1.8 Limited. I shot the star field using f/2.2 for 80 seconds and then a 6 minute exposure for the foreground. In order to get 80 seconds without any star trailing, I used the Astrotracer feature on the Pentax O-GPS1, which directs movement of the camera sensor in sync with the Earth's rotation (using GPS). Check it out here: www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/english/products/o-gps1/astrotrac...
As this is a total night shot in the dark, you should view it on black in a darkish room for best results...let your eyes adjust first.
Thanks for looking!
Azure breakers crashing onto the pristine Pacific Ocean coastline at Shell beach, close to the town of Jenner. Jenner is a tiny town at the mouth of the Russian River located in Sonoma county, California.
This is a four second exposure through a 9-stop neutral density filter.
Low Tide at Beachcomber. Shell Beach, San Luis Obispo County, California. Captured July 14, 2014. Captured with Canon EOS 5DIII, Canon EF16-35mm f2.8L IS USM at 16mm, f 11 @ 4 minutes, 21 seconds ISO 100. Tripod. Post Processing with CS5, NikSoftware ColorEfexPro 3.0 (Tonal Contrast), ColorEfexPro 4.0 (Image Borders), SilverEfexPro 2.0, Viveza 2.0 and PhotoMatixPro 5.0.4
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My previous work has won a Merit Award in Black and White Magazine 2013 Portfolio Contest. 2 page spread, page 88/89 August 2013 Portfolio Special Edition #98.
Single Image Award in Black and White Magazine 2014 Single Image Contest. Pages 92 & 221 Feb. 2014 Single Image Special Edition #101. I am very pleased to announce that for the third time in a little over a year I will once again be in Black & White Magazine. The internationally known magazine has honored me with a Portfolio Excellence Award and has featured 7 images in a 4-page spread in the 2014 August issue #104. The spread is on pages 28, 29, 30 and 31. As well as many other international awards.
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LISTLESS WAVE of LOW TIDE
Finding a new location it was a minus 1.2 foot low tide. A dry tropical storm was approaching from the south and the clouds were growing. For me it was a perfect time to enjoy the outdoors, the ocean and most important, to make an image. I have to acknowledge to very good friends, Stan who told me about Beachcomber (Stan, When I went there I remembered that I had been there before. Thank you). To Bob, who was my partner in crime that day and photo buddy who makes my images better when we photograph together and who also made the weather much better that day. Thanks for the clouds, Bob..!!!
Addendum:
This image is actually an HDR consisting of (3) images. A 4 min, 20 sec exposure, a 3 min, 17 sec exposure and a 2 min exposure. This allowed me to properly expose for the highlights and shadows. The tonal separation was too contrasty so the scene required this approach.
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At first, I thought he was looking for a quick way to break into my truck, but alas, he was much more interested in himself...
Frenetic activity, late this afternoon, by all four peregrine fledglings attacking any possible prey . . . and I was afraid it might be me . . . phew!
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I'm fairly confident that this is the last of my photos from the Coral Beach on Skye. This was taken from the rocky outcrop at the end of the headland and it looks back over the beach toward the fog-shrouded mainland of Skye.
At one time during my college years, I lived within walking distance of this lovely park right at the side of the ocean. I spent many nights here just taking in the beautiful sight and contemplating my life, my future. :)
Have a lovely day, everyone...
I almost never blend exposures or use HDR merging to process my photos but for this image I could not get it "right" any other way. As I almost never do this I was not sure how best to proceed. I ended up using a NIK software to make the HDR and finished it in PS6. I actually have a fairly large folder of images that need some sort of blend or HDR for dynamic range that need to be edited but I am not sure how I like this final result or if I will use the process again. Any thoughts, criticisms, or ideas would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
Taylor
Shell Beach, Sonoma County, CA at dusk
Bronica GS-1 200mm @f16
#25 red filter
Ilford Pan F
approx. 50 sec at f16
Sea Grass on the Rocks. Shell Beach, San Luis Obispo County, California. Captured July 14, 2014. Captured with Canon EOS 5DIII, Canon EF16-35mm f2.8L IS USM at 16mm, f 11 @ (7 images HDR), ISO 100. Tripod. Post Processing with CS5, NikSoftware ColorEfexPro 3.0 (Tonal Contrast), ColorEfexPro 4.0 (Image Borders), SilverEfexPro 2.0, Viveza 2.0, Dfine 2.0 and PhotoMatixPro 5.0.4
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My previous work has won a Merit Award in Black and White Magazine 2013 Portfolio Contest. 2 page spread, page 88/89 August 2013 Portfolio Special Edition #98.
Single Image Award in Black and White Magazine 2014 Single Image Contest. Pages 92 & 221 Feb. 2014 Single Image Special Edition #101. I am very pleased to announce that for the third time in a little over a year I will once again be in Black & White Magazine. The internationally known magazine has honored me with a Portfolio Excellence Award and has featured 7 images in a 4-page spread in the 2014 August issue #104. The spread is on pages 28, 29, 30 and 31. As well as many other international awards.
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ABOUT THIS IMAGE
Sea Grass on the Rocks
Finding a new location it was a minus 1.2 foot low tide. A dry tropical storm was approaching from the south and the clouds were growing. For me it was a perfect time to enjoy the outdoors, the ocean and most important, to make an image. I have to acknowledge two very good friends, Stan who told me about Beachcomber (Stan, When I went there I remembered that I had been there before. Thank you). To Bob, who was my partner in crime that day and photo buddy who makes my images better when we photograph together and who also made the weather much better that day. Thanks for the clouds, Bob..!!!
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Our dogs at Shell Beach during a January low tide. Lucky (black dog in the background) is ecstatic....she found a tennis ball to carry around.
This is the brightest and largest moon since 1948 and you won't see another one until 2034. I got up at around 5:30 this morning when it was it's fullest and decided to try a shot as the moon set over Shell Beach. It was very cold but worth it. This is a composite of 2 shots.
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Gentle hugs when spirits sag,
Friendships to brighten you being,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Faith so that you can believe,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
And love to complete your life.
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Please view Large on Black. Rock Formation with Sky. Shell Beach, San Luis Obispo County, California. Long Exposure in Black and White. Captured with Canon EOS 5DIII, Canon EF16-36mm f4L IS USM, Refer to “About this Image” Below. Tripod. Post Processing with CS5, NikSoftware ColorEfexPro 3.0 (Tonal Contrast), Viveza 2.0, ColorEfexPro 4.0 (Vignette, Image Borders, Soft Focus) and PhotoMatix 4.2.6
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Merit Award in Black and White Magazine 2013 Portfolio Contest. 2 page spread, page 88/89 June 2013 Portfolio Special Edition #98.
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Lalush’s Beast
I saw an image of this rock a Flickr contact had beautifully made and vowed to find and photograph it. I emailed him asking for the location with no response. I even used Google Earth trying to locate this rock. It was more difficult because the photographer had used a 15mm lens down low and very close making the rock look huge. After a 4 month search I finally saw the rock for the first time. It was right in front of my nose at a location I frequent many times. It took 3 times of going back before the conditions were somewhat close to capturing an image. The tide was too low, kids were climbing all over it, there weren’t any clouds or the sand was trampled. Finally I was able to click a few frames, but the sky was blown out. It was a very contrasty scene. So I salvaged another image of a beautiful long exposed sky I had taken months earlier a mile north of this location and merged the two.
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Captured with Canon EOS 5DIII, Canon EF16-35mm f2.8L IS USM at 22mm, f 20 @ 216 sec. (3min- 36 sec) ISO 50. Tripod. Long Exposure.10 stop B+W ND filter plus 3 stop B+W ND filter.
Sky:
Captured with Canon EOS 5DIII, Canon EF16-35mm f2.8L IS USM at 26mm, f 20 @ 241 sec. (4min- 1 sec) ISO 50. Tripod. Long Exposure.10 stop B+W ND filter plus 3 stop B+W ND filter.
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Some shots from around Dinosaur Caves Park in Shell Beach, California. The Pelicans have taken over the rock.