Morro Bayby ~madrush08

Photography / Animals, Plants & Nature / Landscapes

This is my first long exposure ocean scene, and it was quite a challenge. I am a desert rat, so the constantly changing tide and wave intensity was catching me off guard. I decided to take off the auto noise control so that it didn't take twice as long to get to my next photo.

Great experience. I cant wait to do more. I had a chance to work with my ND grad again, I am getting better at that. The other day I got a 3 stop ND grad for 8 bucks at the local camera shop, and two hoya ND4's for 13 bucks. I can't wait to get a chance to use them.

I did a bit to this image because it was under exposed and I needed to keep the noise in control. I did a couple of curves, levels and brightness layers. sharpened in lab, then with high pass in RGB after resizing.

let me know what you think

may appear dark, and if so, let me know, i will fix it.

~jayshree Jun 18, 2009

Beautiful. Well done.

~madrush08 Jun 18, 2009 Hobbyist Photographer

thank you very much!!

~jayshree Jun 18, 2009

You're welcome.

~ds28 Jun 3, 2009 Hobbyist Photographer

perfect...i would luv to see it in black n white

~madrush08 Jun 4, 2009 Hobbyist Photographer

It wouldnt be as good because the midtones would have lots of noise because i took the noise reduction off as i was shooting this scene so that each exposure didn't take twice as long.