http://www.leefilters.comI made this photograph of Newquay’s popular beach on a busy Easter Saturday
afternoon. Until the weather you can see offshore rolled in, it had been a sunny
day and, as you might imagine, this popular surfing beach was very busy indeed.
I wanted a simple, clean photograph that was all about the light rather than the
crowds, so I used my circular polariser and the Big Stopper. Reducing the light
reaching my sensor by 12 stops, the filters allowed me to keep the shutter open
for 2 minutes, which was enough to make everyone disappear!
I also used a 0.6 hard grad. People usually talk about grads as being useful for
balancing exposure but I think that’s just the starting point and they get really
interesting when seen as more of a creative tool. The dynamic range in this scene
didn’t require a grad, but I used one anyway to accentuate the contrast between
the sunny beach and the menacing presence of the incoming weather front.
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RachaelTalibart
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LEE 100mm Filter System
LEE 0.6 ND Hard Grad
LEE Big Stopper
LEE Polariser
Canon 5D Mark III and
Canon 16-35mm lens
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