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It was about 4 years since I had been at this location, tucked away down a small lane lies this amazing beach at Porth Nanven in the Cot Valley, last time I was here the tide was right in and the light wasn't great so I was hoping for better this time around.
On the trip I only visited here once and the light certainly played ball this time, also the tide being out allowed for more of the beach features to be included this time and also for the sunlight to cascade over the sand and rocks, I managed a few differently composed shots from this location this evening, this one being one of my favourites, this is definitely one of those locations you could visit every night for a month and come away with something unique each time.
The islands in rear are known as 'The Brisons' and (although I honestly cant see it myself...), they are said to resemble General Charles de Gaulle lying on his back.
Pebble beach at low tide.
Back to Holywell Bay with this shot. This was very tough to process. The dynamic range was quite huge and I had 3 bracketed exposures to work with. A lot of masking :-) But in the end I think it conveys some of the warmth of that wonderful evening.
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Taken at high tide on a damp and overcast afternoon.
Taken 8th August 2011.
Sony DSLR-A350, Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 @ 15mm, ISO 100, 0.2 sec, f/13
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En partant, ça sentait les giboulées de Mars, ça je m'en doutais un peu mais en arrivant sur le site ça s'est dégagé .Le vent était bien présent, un peu trop même :) avec un coefficient de marée de 81 à l'heure du coucher de soleil, ça sentait bon.Mais je n'avais pas prévu cette vague sur ma droite....Merci pour vos fav et commentaires et Bon Week-end !
This one I shot an hour before sunset at Porth nanven. Why not wait till sunset you might ask.. Well I had not enough evenings to get in all the coasts I wanted so I had to do two Coasts this evening ;-) For sunset I went to the nearby Priest Cove which is also quite nice. But next time I get to Cornwall I will do a lengthly shoot at Porth Nanven for sure, and take more than 3 Pictures!! But It still came out quite good.
Here's the complete story behind this shot -> mibreit-photo.com/blog/?p=450
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One of my fafourite evenings in Cornwall. After all that rain during the day, the weather god provided me with a spectacular sunset sky :-) first I was at porth nanven and took some quick shots. since it was getting a little crowded there I went to the nearby priest cove for the sunset instead.. I took loooootttts of pictures there. The sky was changing rapidly and breaking up eventually.
Here is one of my first shots there. The sturcture in the sky was great and the clouds were already starting to loosen up. I wanted to focus only on the great structures throughout the whole scene so I used BW and quite a lot dodge and burn :-)
BTW. the boulders you are seeing on the beach are dinosaur eggs.. at least they look that way gg
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Another one from the archives. I had a very productive trip to cornwall last year in may. Every evening another coastline and another sunset to shoot. Here's a shot of the Godrevy Lighthouse. This shot will also serve a bit as a preview of whats to come :-) in two weeks I'll visit one of the most spectacular coastlines in europe. I'm goin on a 1week trip to Portugal, the area east of Lisabon. Flickr and loc.alize.us already helped me scouting the area in advance and there'll be sooo much to shoot. hopefully I'm lucky with the weather.
Some notes about this shot. It's a dri from 3 bracketed exposures blended using enfuse GUI 2.1 and then in addition some hand-blending in photoshop. Then tonal adjustments, curves, slight color adjustments, saturation and dodge&burn with aid of luminance masks.
If you wonder why the lighthouse is not distorted, even though I was shooting wide angle, I selected the portion with the lighthouse and righted it, then I blended it with the original image. This way the lighthouse is straight but I didn't need to correct the whole image.
Hope you like it.
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The day before that remarcable sunset at Kynance Cove, which I showed you yesterday, I photographed this clear sunset at Godrevy. Although no clouds were in the sky the wave action provided some nice shooting opportunities, because the breaking waves nicely caught the light of the setting sun.
Here's a more distant shot of the Godrevy Lighthouse. All felt very calm. I blended two exposures here, one exposed for the sky and one for the foreground.
Back to Cape Cornwall. This is a Panorama from 4 vertical shots (roughly 180degree) , all with bracketing for later DRI blending (see my blog). The dynamic range is huge here because of facing into the sun and also shooting away from it. So actually I did 2 panoramas, one after the sun was out of view without lense flares and one with the sunstar and the magic light. Later in postproc I layered both DRI panos together in PS to paint out the lense flares.
It was quite a lot of work behind this shot, both during the shot where I used my Nodal Ninja and in postprocessing but I'm happy with the result! What do you think, does it keep up with my other Cornwall shots?
PS: You might guess from the dark foreground, that it was still very wet and slippery there and not easy to stay on your feet ;-)
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Ok normally I manage to get up early a lot more during vacation but this time the weather was just not good enough in the morning. This shot is from the only time I went out for a morning shoot and well I waited and waited for the sky to break up but instead this was the foreboding of the days rain coming . At least I manged to get some shots and I like the mood in this, already looking like rain :-)
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