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Self Critique
The etheral feel of Day time long exposure
I cropped because of the bare rock in the LLC - any other suggestions?
Creative direction
My goal was to create that ethereal feeling of that smooth water over the rocks - at the same time keeping a reasonable amopunt of architecture
Specific Feedback
This is a blend - 1.6 seconds for the sky and 2 min for the water - images sarea somethis hot in succession on a tripod of course - looks reasonable?
Any idea what that fireball in the sky is ?
LLC rock is bare - hence this rectangular crop - dis darken
Technical Details
as above
Description
I actually took a bunch of club members out to do some DTLE
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I love the mood of this image and the the lower left area looks fine to me. There has been a lot of human-made space debris falling back into the atmosphere, perhaps that is what it is.
Karl, I’m a sucker for a good seascape and if your PP goal was for an “ethereal feel”, you’ve done it. That comet (?) centre frame works well and the flat rock coming from the lower LH corner works to lead the eye.
The horizon is not level and there’s two channel marker or some such on the horizon that could disappear.
This is blend of the sky and water - taken one after the other - In the process I might have done a partial overlap. I have to look at it in more detail.
Re horizon - i believe thats perceptual, especially in view of the clouds - I will compromise to make it visually more pleasing - thanks
This was a daytime photo? Did you see the fireball while you were photographing? Did you use a ND filter to hold back the water for the 2 minute exposure? The water does have an ethereal feel that gets imparted to the photo as a whole, so on that level its successful. The fireball is interesting, but It is so small it does not have much impact on the photo as a whole.
This was taken at sunset - 115 seconds - yes a ND filter was needed - purpose was sim ply to get that ethereal feeling - the UFO is a added bonus - certainly not intended to be the main subject - perhapos I can reduce the sky
I really like the strong foreground here and the soft graduated colours in the sky. The effect on the water from the long exposure is also quite pleasing. I don’t imagine you could have shot this from a bit further to the right because I’m struggling a bit with the visual balance in this image. You’ve got a lot of visual weight on the left with the lighthouse and the rocks and the “fireball” in the center but not much other than that bit of colour on the right to balance it out. It’s not that this is a bad photograph but just that I think it could have been a bit stronger.
