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giant causeway sunset long exposures
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it’s become my favorite location lately…
2 photos from giant causeway
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C&C welcome as well as suggestions… very little photoshop on these ( 2% adjustments )
Beautiful colours in these Martin. Both are superb from the horizon down – I love the light on the stacks in the second. One of the best I’ve seen of the causeway.
Unfortunately a bit too much blown areas in the sky for perfection. Its a shame because I really do like the bottom halves… It may be worth working a bit on the Postprocessing although the burnout does look quite severe and may not be rescuable…. the other option would be a Pano crop (a little bit above the horizon) where you could remove most of burnt out areas. Looks like this would work best on the second one .
Hope this helps
Gary
I agree with Gary on this one.
Looks like there’s a fair degree of overexposure of the sky in these. It is particularly noticeable in the second image where the sun has merged into the sky. It’s a shame too because the lower half of the frame is stunning.
What are you doing for contrast control, grads filters or blending? I’d be surprised if a simple 2 or 3 stop grad wouldn’t be enough to control this but perhaps you tried another method?
Andy
How long an exposure, i’d like to try these, and if its really long (like it looks) what the hell do you put in front of the lens to allow longer exposures without burnout?
Really nice BTW, I might head up there this week myself if the rain ever stops ;(
Gary, Andy… I’ll try to work on this one,… check the time of putting it on the forum… was yawning like crazy, bnit rushed it…
Andy… I’m really behind as it goes to Photoshop, and seeing as a photographer.. I’m short-sighted as well… :p
I used B&W 3.0 110 (10 stop) NDx1000 filter (so popular here lately, but i had been trying to achieve this effect from the beginning) and it was 2min exposure, I could have waited few more minutes but was rushing to other bay, turned that path was closed…
I’ll try blending and maybe levels….
the clouds are really blurred, they were moving quite fast, and there were really conrasting areas in the sky… and actually i was trying to accent that , giant causeway is very tricky as it goes to light condistions, main part is heading towards setting sun so its very hard to capture it right… last time i got really wet, almost got cold…
but i’ll work on this one….
thanks for adviceMartin, what bay were you headed to? The path into Port Reostan towards Lacada point?
Give me a shout if you are interested in joining me on an expedition along the old lower path. I found a way down below Hamilton’s seat into Port-na-Pleaskin that will get us in.
And I can tell you it’s quite a place.
Andy
That second one is a stunner alright, as has been mentioned-
it is posted in Adobe RGB though-
so I get different colours in Safari and Firefox-I think I prefer the ones in Firefox,
though it shouldn’t display properly there-
it’s a little bit more muted-j
More fine Causeway photos… as many of them as we have posted here I never tire… super location, although I’ve never been.
#2 would be my pick… I much prefer the composition here.
Have you tried the recovery slider in Adobe Camera RAW to recover the over exposed bits? Irrespective of whether the shots where taken in JPG or RAW this is possible (for JPG – In PS goto File – Open As – Select the .JPG file – Change the Open As drop down to Camera RAW).
To the RHS of the rocks there’s some fine detail lost in the shadows that could be recovered quite easily too. Some like dark shadows in the corner but with rock forms like those you have at the Causeway you find yourself always wanting to see as much detail as possible.
But even as is… fine work.
J
thanks for your comment John, I’ve been fan of your work since i found this website…
I did everything you mentioned in LR, but in minimal amount… wanted to maintain what i saw in on giant causeway…
i’m currently working on this image, as i’m not the best at PS, i’m trying different things… blending, gradient, levels, but seems that sky is blown away… i have another idea… i think i still have underexposed shots so i hope blending will be more succesfull
i’ll go there again today, if the weather is good, and try another method, i’ll try to stack Nd 3.0 and Nd grey grad filters together , we’ll se ..
thanks for your comment John, I’ve been fan of your work since i found this website…
I did everything you mentioned in LR, but in minimal amount… wanted to maintain what i saw in on giant causeway…
i’m currently working on this image, as i’m not the best at PS, i’m trying different things… blending, gradient, levels, but seems that sky is blown away… i have another idea… i think i still have underexposed shots so i hope blending will be more succesfull
i’ll go there again today, if the weather is good, and try another method, i’ll try to stack Nd 3.0 and Nd grey grad filters together , we’ll se ..
Thank you Martin and a fine little collection you have growing there on your Flickr account I must say.
The problem with LR is that a change affects the entire image… you need PS to refine changes to certain areas. Scott Kelby’s 7 Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3 is a good sort of foundation for working your images with PS to get the best exposure, highlights, shadows, fine detail etc.
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