After the impressive rains of the 5 previous days i wasn't in the mood of showing a sunny landscape.
Showing posts with label sea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sea. Show all posts
Wednesday 17 December 2008
Stuck in the waves
After the impressive rains of the 5 previous days i wasn't in the mood of showing a sunny landscape.
Monday 15 December 2008
Sunday 14 December 2008
Private pool in the red dusk
I name this place my private pool because in winter i'm always alone there. At summertime it's another story and tourists start to arrive around 7 am.
That's an HDR work done from 4 exposures with soft tone mapping under Photomatix.
A big thank you to 622press for featuring 2 of my fav seascapes.
Libellés :
carqueiranne
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dusk
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HDR
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mediterranean
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portfolio
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provence
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sea
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seascape
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Tuesday 9 December 2008
A colorful winter afternoon on the Mediterranean coast
This image was taken the same day that the one in my previous post but one or two hours before. When i arrived on the place, the sky was just of a beautiful deep blue and the rocks had their usual yellow tint. Some minutes after some white clouds came and started to hide the sun in my back and then the rocks became really more red and orange.
I took two long exposures for this image : 40s and a little more than 60s.
The final photo is the result of some manual blending and true hdr work.
Libellés :
carqueiranne
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HDR
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hoya nd 400
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long exposure
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mediterranean
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portfolio
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provence
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sea
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seascape
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Monday 8 December 2008
Feeding the web
Some days, thinking to this blog i'm wondering if all these posts are anything else than food for the Web. I'm wondering if the Web is not only a big black hole aspirating all my images, writings and time. But more and more of my sales are done from the Web, the Web gives me instant delivery of my work to my clients, free phone calls and many other usefull thing in my everyday job. So ...
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carqueiranne
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dusk
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long exposure
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mediterranean
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portfolio
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provence
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sea
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seascape
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var
Friday 5 December 2008
I love when she's wild
Another night where i left my bed at before 5 am, another dawn where i was on the beach before the sun, another fresh morning with wet feet because of waves and because of the little pools you can see on the rocks, another morning where the light was not so nice. But i love when the sea is like that !
Large view here or by clicking the photo as usual :)
Libellés :
carqueiranne
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mediterranean
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provence
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sea
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seascape
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var
Friday 28 November 2008
HDR morning on the Mediterranean coast
In an early autumn morning, it's very rare to see somebody on this place but when i shot there in the summer, tourists start to arrive from 7 am.
I love to be there.
It's a wild place when you feel into the sea. It's not easy to come when the weather is too strong but it's not impossible and just on the right there is a little cave where i love to stay during the storms looking at the waves splashing.
This photo was done with 2 exposures blended in one HDR image and tonemapped with photomatix.
I've kept it natural, maybe i'll post a more crazy version in the next days.
Libellés :
carqueiranne
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HDR
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mediterranean
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photomatix
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portfolio
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provence
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sea
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seascape
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var
Tuesday 25 November 2008
In the flow
An other one with moving water but under the sun :)
Large view here
Libellés :
carqueiranne
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mediterranean
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provence
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sea
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seascape
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var
Monday 24 November 2008
Crazy night, strong wind and wild sea
For a few days, we had here a kind of wind storm. The wind was so strong that some of the big ships sailing beteween the continent and Corsica were seriously delayed.
Yesterday in the evening things were going better, so i planned some seascapes for this morning at dawn. In the middle of the night, we were awaken by the noise of thunder, wind and crazy rain. At 5 am, no more noise, i left the bed and drove to the sea under a beautiful starry night. Arrived on the place, standing on the top of a cliff 40 meters above the sea, i was in a really crazy wind with salt water vapors all around me and i saw that the rocks where i wanted to go were under the waves. So i decided to move to an other place not too far. There i could approach the sea a little more but not as wanted. I spent there a few times, took a few shots of the crashing waves but it was definitely not a good day for beautiful seascapes.
Wednesday 19 November 2008
Dusk light on the beach
It was late when i shot this one and i had to have a 3 minutes long exposure. I had to frame in the dark, to focus manually and my head lamp was of a great help, to read the lens focusing scale but also to climb the little path threw the cliff to go back to my car.
Libellés :
carqueiranne
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long exposure
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mediterranean
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provence
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sea
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seascape
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var
Monday 17 November 2008
Sunday 16 November 2008
Birth of a new day - HDR version
This is the same image that the one shown in this post, but for this version, the two exposures where processed with the newest version of Photomatix.
I really don't want to write a review of this new version of the most popular HDR software. I had these images to process, i had just read that a new version of Photomatix was available so i have updated my setup before processing my files.
If you look at the Photomatix website, you will see that the list of updated and new features is long but i was specially interested by this one : Option to reduce chromatic aberrations / color fringing added to "Generate HDR options" dialog. I have to say that i wasn't impressed by this new tool.
My most usual workflow for the HDR job is the following :
- First processing of the raw files with Silkypix.
- HDR generation and tonemapping using Photomatix.
- And sometimes, tweaks on the resulting 48 bit TIF file.
Usually, i use the SilkyPix tool to reduce chromatic aberrations during the raw processing. This time i first tried to process the raw files without doing anything about chromatic aberration and give a test to the new Photomatix tool. I was not very convinced by the results ... So i reprocessed my raw files, asked SilkyPix to reduce chromatic aberrations and processed the resulting files in Photomatix without checking the CA reduction option. I found the new result better than the first one.
Libellés :
HDR
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le pradet
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mediterranean
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photomatix
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portfolio
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provence
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sea
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seascape
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software
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var
Friday 14 November 2008
Vivid colors and long exposure plus one happy feature
This one is the most recent of my long exposure of rocks bathing in the Mediterranean waves collection. Sometimes, the photographer needs a little luck, capturing such vivid colors and keeping the water perfectly smooth is not always easy.
FishHack, another blogger has just featured this image in his blog and he asked me if i liked his choice.
I mention it here because i really like his choice. This image is one of my big fav from this year. It was done in May. The day before, the meteo said that weather will be very fine during the next days and then i decided to be on the beach before dawn to be able to capture some soft and beautiful blue and pink tones ...
So i woke up before 3 am, drove to the sea threw a little fog and once on the beach i discovered that the weather was not be exactly what i was expecting. I was a little disappointed during a short time but decided to stay and try to catch some skyscapes over the sea. I did two when the sun was just rising and this one a short time later because i noticed the clear blue in the water contrasting with the gray sea and sky. The first two are probably more beautiful because of the rising sun but i think this one is my real fav, probably because it makes me really feel the atmosphere of this morning.
Libellés :
carqueiranne
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clouds
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hoya nd 400
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le pradet
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long exposure
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mediterranean
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portfolio
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provence
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sea
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seascape
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var
Tuesday 11 November 2008
Birth of a new day
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.
Sunday 9 November 2008
Color is back
After two black and white shots, it was time to come back to my more usual work :)
Libellés :
hoya nd 400
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le pradet
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long exposure
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mediterranean
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provence
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sea
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seascape
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var
Tuesday 4 November 2008
Autumn on the sea - black and white
Here, it's raining for days and days, so i work on some of my previous images.
This one is from the first days of october.
138 seconds exposure.
Libellés :
hoya nd 400
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le pradet
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long exposure
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mediterranean
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portfolio
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provence
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sea
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var
Friday 19 September 2008
Still
That's one of my long exposures from August, just processed because since i'm back from Corsica i'm too busy with administrative things and file processing.
Libellés :
hoya nd 400
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le pradet
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long exposure
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mediterranean
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portfolio
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provence
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sea
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summer
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var
Tuesday 26 August 2008
Thursday 21 August 2008
Same place, other light, other shot
Just one month ago, i've posted an other view of these rocks in the Mediterranean waves.
This morning, i went to the same place before dawn. Around 8 am the sky was really blue and i could make this new shot with deep some blue water.
Libellés :
hoya nd 400
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le pradet
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long exposure
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mediterranean
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portfolio
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provence
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recif
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sea
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summer
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var
Thursday 14 August 2008
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