Sunny Storm

Earlier this year I spent a weekend at the Oregon Coast and experienced an odd combination of massive swells with calm and bright conditions. I wrestled with creating a low-contrast version of the first photo I posted from this trip, but eventually decided a high-contrast version worked much better.

I'm still trying to learn black and white photography, and decided to make a second run at a low-contrast image with this photo. I'll post the raw version below; as you can see the scene was pretty low contrast as shot.

This is from Bandon. I recommend viewing the larger version, because the birds help give perspective to the photo and they look like dust bunnies in the small version.

Nikon D7100
Nikon 55.0-200.0 mm f/4.0-5.6 at 145mm (217mm equiv.)
1/500 sec at f/11 and ISO 100