St Just
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
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 ;-)
cheers
Thanks to all Phoide contributors to St Just!
Most notably Michael.