Sea fog
I liked this shot from today. I think it looks cold and desolate, but today couldn’t have been more different. Beautiful warm spring sunshine and a calm sea. This small amount of mist was just blowing in across the sand and transformed the scene for a few minutes. The old breakwaters are silhouetted, as i was shooting into the sun.
Quick and easy HDR
I found a great little piece of software a while back, called HDRtist. It comes as a free and simple faux HDR package or you can buy the “Pro” version for not a lot. While PS and other editing software has plug ins a plenty for this sort of thing, HDRtist just does what is wrtten on the tin. Quick, simple and very easy HDRs and HDR fakes from single images.
It will open Raw files directly, so no need to go round tripping through a conversion first. Here are a couple I did the other day, from the same beach session in my last post.
Low tide breakwaters
Had my first day of 2012 shooting yesterday. The tide was out, leaving some pools on the beach. Tried a few different spots, but this was my favourite of the bunch. Raws processed with Silkypix, which I keep going back to for Black and White conversion.
