What I really liked about this scene was the way the clouds, which were moving very fast seemed like waves on a beach rolling into the shore. This is a image from a few months ago at Circular quay, Anzac day sunrise to be exact.
This was taken using the B+W 10 stop filter and my 16-35mm f/4 lens, which is about a sharp as my 2 year old's plastic knife…. The combination of this lens and that filter creates 1) a fairly soft image but also more interestingly 2) lots of lateral aberrations, not just one colour, ie purple fringing, but depending on what side of the image you look at it could also be green…
Which leads me to a question for all you light room gurus.. LR is awesome for correcting this stuff, however I would like to apply the defringe (under lens corrections) to only selective parts of the image, to prevent it doing weird stuff to places where purple is meant to be 😉 ideally i want to be able just to selectively apply it to the left side of some buildings for example..
I know you can use a control point, however it only gives you a option for defringe, not the full control ie purple/cyan control…
I pulled another swifty on this one.. I had taken a test shot at super high iso just to check the composition, the B+W filter is screw in so getting the compo right is a bit harder than when using the slide in filter types. In the final exposure of 309 seconds, the two boats in the foreground where a bit on the blurry side from the movement, hence I just layered a small part from the test shot onto the final image, even at high iso it was ok and really only accounted for a tiny part of the frame. That said even at the high iso the noise control is pretty darn good anyways…a little selective noise reduction and its pretty hard to tell 😉
Exif love:
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f8 and Shutter Speed: 309.6s
ISO 100
Out front – B+W 10 stop ND.
Great LE!
great work!
A Nice little trick is to make a stamped visible layer in photoshop, and put a Gaussian Blur on it. Then set the blend mode to color. Put a black mask on, and then you can paint over the spots where you want your CA gone, +Gerard Blacklock 🙂
I'm assuming when clouds move faster,it's a signal for the stormy weather sooner;have you had rain afterwards?
beautiful, nice photo..majestic..great capture..very beautiful moment..lovely..
Nice image mate 👌
Wonderful sky and shot 😍
Fricken amazing! Its like the clouds all lined up and started racing across the sky just for you.
Wonderful!
Very beautiful view
Thankyou +Nico Kaiser and +Anatoliy Urbanskiy
+Hendrik Ebber
well i never knew that one – i will be sure to try that out next time. I appreciate the tip mate!
Thankyou +Hyun Kyung Kim
these clouds just appeared out of no where, pretty light ones which did not produce any rain..
Thankyou +ratnasari dewi
+Matt Evans (hope your enjoying your new kit)
+sophie DIDIER
+Chris Corin
i had a word to mother nature 😉
… if only she always listened like this lol..
Thankyou +Mark Goodman and +Kelcey Putri
Forgot to mention, I tend to convert that layer to a smart object, so I can play with the amount of blur. Once happy, I rasterize, +Gerard Blacklock
+Gerard Blacklock looks awesome mate. Noticed a great tip in the comments too!
great shot Gerard
Have a great day Gerard~
The viaduct is see far away is the one near the Opera House?