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Had fun in California playing with my new 10-18. Many, many more images to come. These are just some quick edits I came up with over the past couple days. I've been enjoying creating more punchy images recently. I don't think we should have a limit placed on our creativity so I've just been going with whatever's pleasing to my eye when I'm editing. Im sure these will be a bit over the top for many of you but I'm just enjoying making beautiful imagery. What's your favorite, 1, 2, or 3?

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The iconic tide pools just south of La Jolla cove.

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Scripps Pier ultra long exposure.

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Scripps pier, just before the sun had set.

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Nice photos. Thanks for posting.

My favorite is the first one.
 
the first one. i guess its mostly because of the foreground and its also brighter :)

keep them coming
 
They are all pretty sweet! Number one is pretty damn nice though.
 
I do like these pics. Great work.

But somehow I prefer - my artistic feeling license - to have, show and take sea shots with level horizons. You surely have the freedom to lower the right or the left side as you please, but such images do not please me all that much. Purely my bias and my fault. Sorry to nit-pick

Then, on the second shot, the left bottom, clouds and sea, are all mushy while the right side works just fine. So what happened here?

Sorry to want more and better. The bettet is always the winner over the just so so good, right?.
 
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Just checked horizon on first shot, was .17 degree off, must have not noticed when I was editing. Second photo, I suspect its because since the clouds on the left are much closer than the clouds way off in the distance on the right they appear to have been moving much faster thus creating more motion blur.
 
uhligfd said:
But somehow I prefer - my artistic feeling license - to have, show and take sea shots with level horizons...
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It may be my old, tired eyes but I fail to see what you're seeing... which horizon is not, ahem, horizontal?
 
Kalin said:
uhligfd said:
But somehow I prefer - my artistic feeling license - to have, show and take sea shots with level horizons...
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It may be my old, tired eyes but I fail to see what you're seeing... which horizon is not, ahem, horizontal?
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If you view the 'original view' and have a ruler handy, the pics will be large enough to show different horizon levels on the left and right edge on screen.
 
uhligfd said:
If you view the 'original view' and have a ruler handy, the pics will be large enough to show different horizon levels on the left and right edge on screen.
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Thanks, you have sharper eyes than me :)
 
Loved the first one. Great work.
 
Thanks for this - I'm just about to pull the trigger on a 10-18 ND combo.

Do you find you can rely on the camera metering to set the exposure, or do you need an app or charts to get the right exposure?

(BTW, #2 for me!)
 
95% of the time I just rely on the camera for metering. The a6000 has incredible dynamic range when shooting in RAW. Even this scene right here is only one exposure, shot directly into the sun, is metered at 0 in camera. I will often shoot -2, 0, +2 if I'm really looking for the absolute best image quality but honestly most of the time you can get away with just one exposure. The A6000 has 13.1EV dynamic range, and the A7III & A7RIII have 14.7. I'm not sure how much better the extra 1.6 stops of dynamic range is but I'm curious about it.

With that being said, I only shoot at ISO100. If I need a higher ISO, I just switch to a tripod instead and lengthen shutter speed rather than increasing ISO.

Here's a 18-135 shot of the Fort Rosecrans cemetery.

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Postcard ready images :-)
 
I like the first image, a classic foreground that still amazes me. I'm not a fan of the saturation.

The second image is my least preferred. Another Classic composition. The stormy clouds doesn't do much for me. Maybe in black and white?

I like the third image. Human interest. Good composition. Good colours.

Just my opinion, for what is worth.

Well done.
 
I'd be curious to know your processing details, especially the first one. What software, what settings?
 
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I'd be curious to know your processing details, especially the first one. What software, what settings?
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I’m actually in the process of creating some post processing tutorials. I import my RAWs into LR and get the picture as far as I can before finishing it off the Photoshop. I use PS for the finishing touches, then import back into LR. I actually never touch the vibrancy or saturation sliders. Contrast always creates enough color I don’t need to use it.
 
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