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Hope Cove

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Posted by Sean Bolton on May 1, 2006 at 3:09 PM
Hi All

Just back from a week on the Devon coast. No wildlife photography but I did have a close encounter with an adder whilst doing some landscape photography!

This was taken just before sunset in Hope Cove looking towards Bolt Tail, grid ref SX674399. A great location for landscape photography as the pub is only 50m behind me :biggrin:

Canon 5D, 24-70mm @ 40mm, ISO 100, f22, 2 seconds, MLU, cable release, tripod, Brasher boots.

2 exposures combined (I took a seperate exposure for the sky).

cheers

Sean
Posted by Dave Courtenay on May 1, 2006 at 3:29 PM
IMHO Everything a landscape should be, Beautiful colours,pleasing on the eye and well exposed :toast:
Posted by Tim Munsey on May 1, 2006 at 5:01 PM
Wow, this is great. Just got myself a fish eye lens, and already know this ain't easy. Very attractive and well produced shot.

:toast:

Tim
Posted by Justin on May 1, 2006 at 5:52 PM
Welcome back Sean and a fine shot to return with.I find the combination of blue and orange very nice indeed.
Look forward to more.
:toast:
Posted by Richard Peters on May 1, 2006 at 5:56 PM
Very very nice! :toast:
Posted by PhilH on May 2, 2006 at 3:57 AM
Nice....

:toast: :toast:
Posted by John Chapman on May 2, 2006 at 5:37 AM
Hi Sean
a very nice seascape in deed.
John
Aberdeen :toast:
Posted by Elliott Neep on May 2, 2006 at 5:41 AM
A lovely photograph. Can I ask whether you used Adobe's HDR to merge the images or whether you did it manually?
Posted by Sean Bolton on May 2, 2006 at 7:12 AM
Hi Elliot

I did a manual merge. I am still using Photoshop CS (not 2) so I don't have the HDR feature.

For a lot of landscapes I take a seperate exposure for the sky (as usually it is blown out on the exposure for the land/sea). I then roughly cut the sky out from one image and paste it as a new layer into the main image. I then use the erase tool to tidy up the edges around the sky layer so it blends in with no overlap. It takes a few minutes of pixel bashing to do this.

Once I have this combined image I then might do some selective adjustments on the image for highlights, shadows, contrast etc.

cheers

Sean
Posted by Vincent Jones on May 2, 2006 at 12:52 PM
For some reason Sean I don't comment much on landscapes but for some reason this just grabs you, I think this is the 8th time I have looked at it now without commenting, sorry about that but I don't just want to say its a great shot.

I bet it would make a great wall image A2 size or bigger.

Vince:toast:
Posted by Pete Etheridge on May 3, 2006 at 1:41 PM
Like Vince I've looked at this several times and the only phrase I can think of is 'perfect'. (Especially with the pub so close! :wink:)
Posted by Sean Bolton on May 3, 2006 at 4:34 PM
Thanks everyone for the positive comments. :jump:

cheers

Sean