A particularly strong seascape shot from last night's shoot near the Cauldron. This taken at 2 seconds, just after sunset, and just before I was pounded with a big splash - from behind me, of all places. Thanks for looking.
5D, 3-stop RGND, double-processed for rock details, 2 seconds at F16.
No, I mean the place I named 'the Cauldron', which is North of Depot bay and has become somewhat of a photographer destination since I started shooting it years ago.
ok, I think I'm thinking of Devil's Churn. I spent the better part of an afternoon there once (Devil's Churn) trying to perfect my exploding wave shots... I still have a lot of work to do :(
Anyway, I really like the clouds and water action you caught in this.
Beautiful shot. This is the type of photography that made me pick up my camera in the first place. Incredibly strong foreground elements work well to compliment the awesome sunset and clouds. Great timing, with all the small waterfalls doing there thing. There is a great foreground to background progression which adds depth, and I love that about many of your horizontal shots. It's easy to do with a vertical shot, but not many pull it off well with their horizontals. Quite painterly. Really good work. I'd love to visit this place someday....now that you have made it famous:)
Another wonderful Marc Adamus photograph. Sorry to ask a beginner's question, but is "double-processed for rock details" referring to sharpening the image twice?
Quite an amazing sky but I feel the foreground isn't nearly as captivating. I do like the little splash of reflected color on the lower right, I might be tempted to crop it so that little dash of red was right in the golden corner, or whatever that compositional thing is called.
Superb capture of the tidal action. I certainly like the textures and details within the water captured via a shorter exposure length. The perspective taken on the cauldron leads one's eyes to the sky nicely. The darkness in the corners of the sky is a bit distracting.
Richard: Double Processing the RAW image is not a matter of sharpening. What I mean, is that I processed the RAW image file once for the highlights in the scene, saved it, and then processed it again for the shadow areas and saved the second file. I now have two files of the same image, about 2 F-stops apart in exposure levels. I then can blend portions of the images together to achieve a greater latitude of exposure than would be possible with one image. It's worth noting there is more than one way to do this also.
Yes, I had sg like THAT in mind when flooding my equipment last year at cape arrago. Looking back it looks ever more stupid, because neither the light nor the spot was as good as it is here. well...I just look at yours and pretend it's mine!
georg
I think the whole left side is too dark, but especially the corner. One of the first changes I made to this - after posting it here of course.
Posted by Mike Stovall on June 8, 2007 at 11:11 AM
Marc,
This looks like something straight out of the precambrian era. It's terrifying, but beautiful at the same time. The sky is great, the color is great, but I think the detail that really puts this over the top are the pink/gold reflection highlights on the water in the foreground.
Posted by Raymond Marlow on November 30, 2008 at 11:12 PM
Marc,
Superb as usual, images like this and many others you have are what has me looking into a wider wide angle lense and some stronger ND's. Thanks for sharing.
Discussion
17 replies5D, 3-stop RGND, double-processed for rock details, 2 seconds at F16.
Anyway, I really like the clouds and water action you caught in this.
georg
the top left corner is too dark.
and I'm glad you got splashed too...
georg
This looks like something straight out of the precambrian era. It's terrifying, but beautiful at the same time. The sky is great, the color is great, but I think the detail that really puts this over the top are the pink/gold reflection highlights on the water in the foreground.
Superb as usual, images like this and many others you have are what has me looking into a wider wide angle lense and some stronger ND's. Thanks for sharing.