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Published: 2010-08-09 20:15:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 9356; Favourites: 799; Downloads: 0
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I'm just submitting for the sake of submitting. There's another shot of this comp about 18 months back in my gallery, and this is still far from perfect in my mind. I need to photograph this comp much closer to summer solstice, but I couldn't resist.Kogelbay, South Africa
5D II
Zeiss distagon 18mm
Lee 0.9 soft grad
blend of 3 exposures (damn difficult blend to say the least)
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Comments: 56
I like the slight overexposure on this one dude. Nice thirds with the rocks in the bottom
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This photo have been featured on Thumbs of the Week 131st/132nd/133rd/134th/135th 3 .
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how did you get the water to look like that?! It's amazing!
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Ah, the light on the foreground rocks makes up for the fact that the background rocks are in shadow. Works fine for me, and the exposure is spot on
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Thanks Andy. Was an awesome sunset, but I think I wasted it by shooting this. I'll shoot it in October before I leave on my first summer trip.
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Looks like a tricky blend for sure, bit dark to be honest, but nice all the same
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Fantastic work as always.
Comp is perfect, and the colors are fantastic.
Just curious to your comment about the summer soltice, what changes in the light would you be getting???
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the sun moves more to left, illuminating the cove a lot more
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south africa is my favourite country ever!!! this picture is amazing. very well done
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Oh my goodness, That is so well done, I love it, it is beautiful.....
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Wow, that's beautiful. 
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The sky is fantastic and I love the foreground, but I find the dark cliff face a bit oppressive to be honest
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yeah, the DR is quite ridiculous. It's a blend of 3 exposures, shot with a 3 stop grad. I'll nail this comp in the summer.
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This is beautiful, it deserves to be here. [link]
Hope you don't mind?
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So is the blend a little bit like HDR? Nice photo.
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yip 
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Nice one here. Great light and comp not to bad
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This is gorgeous o.o If I could experience something like this in person, I'd never be the same
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i like the colour of the brown rocks and the high contrast (:
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