Sea Stacks and Seaspray

[shadowblade]

Golden hour at the Twelve Apostles, near Port Campbell, Victoria, Australia.

Sony A7r3 with Sony 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 GM and 6 stop ND filter. 4-frame panorama taken at 100mm, f/10, 1/4s, ISO 50. 16 frames in each position (64 frames total) with significant overlap, such that every part of the final image comprised 32 separate exposures, or 8 seconds exposure time, averaged and stitched.

Preliminary edit - any thoughts with regards to colour temperature, tones, contrast and overall brightness? Couldn't decide whether to let the ultra-warm tones stand or to correct for colour temperature so went for somewhere in between for this first edit.

[MattBurt]

Wow, that's a lot of frames! It looks great to me and the tonality seems about right to my eyes. Nice work.

[kers]

looks good to me - averaging to even the movement of the sea? so you also could have used a 3 stops ND filter...? ( if you had one)

[shadowblade]

looks good to me - averaging to even the movement of the sea? so you also could have used a 3 stops ND filter...? ( if you had one)

If I had used a 3-stop filter, it would have taken 8 times as many exposures (128 exposures per frame, with 50% overlap) at 1/32s to get an 8-second exposure time across the whole scene..

I could have used a 10-stop filter and done it with one exposure per frame, but like to use more exposures to really drive noise levels into the ground and increase dynamic range. With 32 exposures at each point in the photo (16 from each frame), each at ISO 50, this photo was effectively taken at ISO 1.5625.

[Paulo Bizarro]

Another excellent one.

[Bob_B]

Another excellent one.

+1

[francois]

I love the tone and the very soft colors. They are perfect for thses spectacular stacks. The light reflected on the cliffs is also very nice.
Bravo!

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Ooh! Very nice indeed.