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Tidal Retreat

A minimal one for me, I intended the horizon to be quite central, this one is about the space around the boat more than anything.
1 minute exposure in bright sunshine.

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Brin 3 years ago

Very beautiful in it's simplicity. Great work John!

Cheron 3 years ago

Like it !
Very nice

Alex OBrien 3 years ago

My kind of place, what a stunner John, outstanding!

Jorge Goncalves Silva 3 years ago

Great photo John. I bought a 9 stop filter (from Hoya) and I'm very excited to start to do this kind of photos. And see your photos give more inspirations because I live near the sea. Thanks.
PS: What about the Sigma 17-70mm ? I'm looking for a standard zoom lens with good image quality, specially a sharper lens.

John Parminter It is a very good lens for the price, nice and sharp, quite compact and light. It has a slightly noisey motor but no trouble for me.

Good luck with the filter, can be tricky to get used to using and fiddly sometimes but well worth the effort.

JP

Jorge Goncalves Silva Thanks John for your reply. Cheers.

cbaierar 3 years ago

Hello John. I'm a fan of your photos. Tell me what kind of filter you use to get 10 stops and what aperture to get 1 min on bright light and good resolution. I'm trying to learn shooting long exposures and your help is very welcome. Cheers.

John Parminter Hello, I use a Formatt ND3.0 100mm square resin filter that slots into my Lee filter holder. I have to compose and focus first without the ND3.0 but can use normal polariser and ND grad if I need to. I set my exposure like this then introduce the ND3.0 then just alter the shutter speed for 10 stops of light. Here I used ISO 100, f/8 and 1 minute but could achieve 2 or 4 minutes if I used f/11, f/16 etc.
This filter is not colour neutral though on digital cameras as there is a lot of IR pollution which turns everything a magenta shade so I only use this filter when I know it will work in mono, I actually shoot in mono using this filter.

JP

Johan Nieuwerth 3 years ago

Really like the simplicity of this one, beautiful!

Matjaz 3 years ago

Well done, I like the reflection below the boat!

John Colbensen 3 years ago

Interesting to see that it works so well considering the "rulebreaking". Is this close to the rawfile? or did you dodge and blur? It is so clean! Very embalming view

John Parminter John, I did shoot this conventionally with the horizon on a third but just didn't like it and thought it looked very conventional and uniform.

This is very much as it came out of camera, I only did a very slight tweak to levels to the overall image to add a touch of contrast, no blurring or anything else. The 10 stop filter naturally blurred the water and sky.

Cheers,

John Colbensen Thank you John. I've never tried a 10 stop filter.This was in fact very inspiring. You gave me some ideas..thanks for the answer :)

John Parminter John, you mentioned the image looked 'clean'. I actually shot to the right of the histogram for this one and the curve was small and well within the camera's dynamic range. As you may well know, when the pixels are bunched to the right then the sensor gathers far more detail and information, I then simply increased contrast a touch with levels to add some subtle darker tones here and there.

JP

Vlad Dumitrescu 3 years ago

beautiful, John! Congrats! :o)

Thomas Holtkoetter 3 years ago

Peaceful and quiet, simple and good !

John Parminter Cheers Thomas, I'm experimenting a lot more these days...

JP

Phyllis Clarke 3 years ago

Glad to see the mono and happy you broke some rules too..Looks very good! My best, Phyllis

John Parminter Cheers Phyllis, I do this quite often with horizons as the thirds can look a bit contrived to me sometimes, generally I prefer a 60:40 split usually.
JP

Slavomir M. 3 years ago

very nice

Guy Prives 3 years ago

minimalistic & beautiful

johnpainter 3 years ago

A one minute shot in bright sun? Good gracious, did you leave the lens cap on?

Love the shot (I'm a big fan of minimalism).

John Parminter It feels like it as you cannot focus or compose through these filters John. I can actually get 3 or 4 minutes in daylight with this filter but often there isn't much advantage going longer if 30 seconds or a minute achieves the effect I'm after.
JP