Pic of the Week - Page 48
The Pinnacles
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Location: Handfast Point on the Dorset coast in southern England. These are chalk stacks captured at sunrise and they mark the eastern end of the Jurassic Coast UNESCO World Heritage Site.
This image was captured using a tripod-mounted Canon 5DmkII camera with a Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5 L II lens . I used LiveView and 10x magnification to manually focus on the closest rock face, and a lens shift was used to give more foreground and less sky. The camera was set to manual exposure mode, f/8, ISO 100, and daylight white balance. I then captured a series of 6 exposures from 30 seconds all the way to 1 second in one-stop increments. The RAW processing, creating and saving the HDRI was all done in Photoshop CS/4. The HDRI was then opened and tone mapped in Photomatix Pro before the final clean-up and image correction/enhancement work was done back in Photoshop. I did not like the original sky because it was just long soft streaks of moving cloud. This sky was captured in exactly the same position about 15 minutes later, when the sun was well up and the exposures were faster but it is still from a HDRI sequence. Click here to learn something new ... take part in a HDR workshop - Photography Workshops on the Isle of Wight - |