We spent the saturday afternoon here with my wife, my daughter and some friends. I came back at dawn on sunday and did a few shots before the crowd. I love the light on this one.
Showing posts with label mediterranean. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mediterranean. Show all posts
Tuesday 10 March 2009
The soft light of a peaceful morning
We spent the saturday afternoon here with my wife, my daughter and some friends. I came back at dawn on sunday and did a few shots before the crowd. I love the light on this one.
Thursday 5 March 2009
Hesitating
I was not totally happy with the previous version of this image. I can't really explain why in english but i would say that today i find it a little too much. So i reprocessed my 3 exposures in Photomatix and finished with this one.
Wednesday 4 March 2009
A lonely day at the beach
Same beach than the one shown here, not the same day, not the same place and at dusk.
More than 2 minutes exposure.
Some like me will find it a bit too empty, some will just love the calm and peace :)
Tuesday 3 March 2009
A rainy morning at the sea - HDR
Same scene, no GND filter but HDR from 3 exposures.
I didn't try to keep a similar rendition, this one is darker with more saturated colors.
Monday 2 March 2009
A rainy morning at the sea
I was there really soon but had to leave the place before 9 am because the rain was too strong.
This one was done with a 0.9 GND filter. I also shot 3 other exposures to try an HDR version :)
Friday 27 February 2009
One more mediterranean purple dusk
In provence special language, bau doesn't mean beautiful but it designs a kind of big rocks or cliff. So Bau Rouge means Red Rocks or Red Cliff.
This place is really my favorite for dusk colors.
Thursday 26 February 2009
Clouds over Toulon - without HDR but with a GND filter
Posted for comparison with the one shown in this previous post.
Saturday 21 February 2009
Clouds over Toulon - HDR seascape or HDR skyscape
That's always the same story : Today was supposed to be a sunny day and i expected a beautiful pink daw on the buildings you can devine on the right of this image. So i jumped out of my bed at 5 am, prepared a big little coffee and drove to Toulon where i arrived at dawn. Light was really not as expected :) I decided to wait some hours walking on the beaches and at around 9 am (i guess) the sun said a little hello threw the clouds in my back. As this kind of sky can always be interesting for HDR works i rapidly shot 3 exposures and after that one more with a soft GND filter.
The one you can see above is the result of my HDR work and i have to say that it was a real pleasure to process. I'll show you the flitred one in the following days.
Wednesday 18 February 2009
Playing with the Hoya ND 400 filter in full light
The Hoya ND 400 filter multiply the exposure time by around 500. So it can be difficult to use in low light but it can give some exposure around the minute when used in full day light.
The photo above was done in the early morning in january.
Tuesday 17 February 2009
A typical coastline shot
I took this one around 2 weeks ago at the very end (or start) of Bau Rouge beach.
The wind was very crazy, i was expecting it to slow a little bit at dusk but it didn't listen to me :)
Monday 16 February 2009
Blue hour on the Mediterranean sea
Toulon is the most important town of my region. It's a military place from centuries and the pier is always full of war ships. We don't go there very often but this week end some friends came to visit us from Corsica. On sunday evening they came back to their home in their island of beauty and so we had to bring them to Toulon so that they could take the boat. We arrived a little too soon and walked along the sea while waiting for boat time. That's during this little promenade that i had the idea of this image.
So today i left the office at the end of the afternoon and drove to Toulon with my camera. This shot was done around 7 pm and the exposure was around 200 seconds. Colors are natural and totaly unprocessed.
Friday 13 February 2009
A famous beach under a dull light
So, after many days of rain it suddenly stopped last saturday and i spent most of the week end walking on the coast with my camera and tripod. That was fine but the light was always very dull. I mainly wanted to find some new places where i could return with better conditions.
On saturday i spent a little time on this place. During summer it's a very clean sand beach with thousands and thounsands of peoples. This day it looked a little more dirty and i think i saw less than 50 people walking. I could have stucked there during 2 or 3 hours expecting for a nice light around 5h30 pm with a low sky popping out of the clouds. But the main parking was behind me and it was quite sure that at this time all the walkers would came back and it would have been very difficult to catch just the right moment with the beautiful light and nobody on the beach. So i walked back to my car after a few snapshots and drove to some less civilized places ...
Thursday 5 February 2009
Seaview
Same place, same day than the one in this previous post but a few hours before. Not the best hour of the day for landscape photography put it can certainly result in some typical postcards :)
Tuesday 27 January 2009
A mediterranean panorama
Monday 26 January 2009
Other process
I've ever posted an other version of this scene.
This new one was done by manually blending 3 exposures without any real hdr work.
On wednesday i've received a new set of grad nd filters, mines where too old and scratched :)
Landscape photography is so unpopular in France than we can find such products in shop here. I had to order them in England ...
Tuesday 20 January 2009
Sunday 18 January 2009
Dawn light on Bau Rouge beach
I've just done a 18x12 print and i love it. The sky is perfectly smooth and the rocks pop just how i like :)
Done with 4 exposures : 2 blended in Photomatix (average method) and used for the sky, a single one for the sea and the rocks are the result of a real hdr work with the 4 exp.
Friday 16 January 2009
Coastline
During my last walk on the Presqu'île de Giens, just before dusk.
Wednesday 14 January 2009
Sea view
One from my (very) recent walk threw the Presqu'île de Giens.
For my regular readers, the Presqu'île de Giens is the land you very often saw on the horizon in many of my previous seascapes.
Tuesday 13 January 2009
Warm light on Bau Rouge beach
It was a cold morning but the light was warm.
Sky and sea are from a single shot and for the rocks i've blended a little of an hdr image done from 3 exp including the one used for sky and sea.
Yesterday i spent the morning processing files for a client and the afternoon hiking the coastline for new seascapes. It was a hard walk threw a pine tree forest devastated by some tempests. I came back at night, played with my daughter and sleeped too tired to blog and even to look at my shots.
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