OB, SD day off

I've been working a lot lately.  I went 18 straight days before a day off last Thursday, so Lindsay and I took advantage with a night out in OB for burgers, a walk, and some photos. It was really rejuvanating to take photos again, as it's been months since the last time I took any pictures let alone serious ones.


Nikkor 12-24 @16mm f/22, 3s; Tiffen 0.6 ND, 0.6 ND Gradient

Nikkor 12-24 @13mm f/22, 8s; Tiffen 0.6 ND, 0.6 ND Gradient

Nikkor 12-24 @13mm f/22, 20s; Tiffen 0.6 ND, 0.6 ND Gradient

Nikkor 12-24 @13mm f/22, 20s; Tiffen 0.6 ND


Here I played with some neutral density filters so that I could get longer exposures without overexposing.  This allowed me to get smooth waters and clouds that looked brooding, all in the early dusk when the sky itself still had a fair amount of light in it. The gradient filter gives me a little more time to expose the foreground without overexposing the sky. Filters are a much more effective way of getting well exposed sunset and dusk shots, as post-hoc digital gradients can brighten up the foreground, but cannot create the detail that you get from a correct pre-processing exposure.