Colors in the sky

Sunshine over the Presqu'île de Giens

Birth of a new day

Birth of a new day at Le Pradet, Provence

Another day on the beach before dawn ...

Manual DRI from 2 exposures. Depending of the subject of course, i tend to use more and more this technic instead of graduated ND filters.

Large view here.

Calm at dawn

Calm at dawn - Le Pradet - Provence

Peaceful mediterranean seascape in Provence.

Morning contrasts

don't miss the large view

Wake up : 3 am.
Look threw the window : Clear and starry night with beautiful moon.
Coffee and drive to the sea.
Arrival on the place : 4 am. Still dark with big clouds ...
That's the third time i try to catch one soft dawn on the sea at this place. That's the third time i arrive there under the clouds.

Back home : 8 am under a small rain.

I'll have to come back another time.

Purple dusk

Dusk light on the Mediterranean sea large view

This day, the light was not so good and i stayed very late on the place. I was just about to leave when i saw these colors. A few minutes later they have disapeared.

Mediterranean sky

Mediterranean seascape in Le Pradet - Provence
I've to return there at dawn !

Nikon D200 and Sigma 10-20 : manual DRI from 3 exposures.

Digital darkroom power

I'm shooting digital since the end of the 90'ies but i'm still amazed by the power of the digital darkroom.
I'm writting this post in front of two fresh prints of the images posted here. Nobody could tell how much these photos were processed. They both come from the same raw files and just differ by the post processing.

A little more :
At the begining were 5 exposures from the same frame with one EV increment between each. I converted them to 5 tif files and then blended theses new images using several masks to obtain the photo shown on the top of this article.
The bottom photo is just a variation of the above one.
I've re-processed the first resulting image to obtain 3 new tifs simulating 3 exposures (still 1 EV increment). Once more i used masks (geometric, brush, tones) to blend these 3 new tifs into a new one to which i finally applied some little tones and colors tweaks ...

Of course, the first image looks very more natural than the second one but i'm not sure about the one i'll hang on my wall...