Seat of power

The Tasman national park contains the tallest cliffs in Australia. This was taken at sunset.

Specifications : focal length 16mm, ISO100, f18, shutter 1.3 seconds, 2 stop hard ND grad,

polarizing filter.

Very nice photo, jitka

Beautiful !!!

What can I say? Hmm... You lucky fellow. I really envy you and winnie. This is truely awesome and a breathtaking view. Wishing you and winnie a Merry Christmas and A Happy 2007. :0))

An amazing shot--I love everything about it from colors, to clouds, to composition, to exposure, to lighting...it is just wonderful! This is without a doubt the best shot I've seen today! Congratulations!

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The only improvement IMO would be to warm up the cliffs. Otherwise, this is a great photo of a beautiful scene. Thanks for posting.

Very nice, very natural looking.

Tack sharp and lovely Kit Yoong.

Excellent seascape, love the wide angle FOV, lines and perspective draw me into the scene, great depth. Superb quality colors. How do you manage 16 mm with polarizer + grad ND, and no vignetting ?

Interesting radiation of lines here which all emanate from an area roughly at the base of the cliffline near the inlet. Really drags the viewer in. The cliffs are the tallest 'seacliffs' Kah but certainly not the tallest cliffs overall.

Thank you all for your interest in this work. I spent the last weekend at the Tasman NP which I had never been to. I was lucky to get a helpful sky on the only shoot I did at this location. Carsten, I cannot explain easily why there is little vignetting, I did not remove any postcapture. I have found that my 16-35mm tends to cause less than the 17-40mm & 24-105mm. Also the 2 stop rather than 3 stop ND grad may have been a factor. At 16mm I was also extremely careful not to polarize too heavily.

It's nice to see someone still using ND grad filters with digital equipment. I was beginning to wonder if that technique had been eclipsed by HDR methods in photoshop. Great portfolio, Kah Kit.

 

Dave, int med

Dave I suspect the majority of specialist landscapists use ND grads rather than HDR even with digital. Great results can be had with either technique & they both have pros & cons. Eventually I may use HDR for certain scenes but I am still trying to push what I can do with a single exposure. So far I am happy with the limitations.

Nicely done, Kah. BTW, I don't think HDR would not have worked in this shot because of the moving water. Happy New Year, J

Powerful landscape Kah. The semi circled cliff is holding the attention by its natural strong lines and texture and leads the eye in to the water and sky. interesting are the 3 forms of nature substance, the rouge cliff, the wavy water and the light feathered sky.

perhaps there is something wrong with my monitor or eyes but the image feels a little constricted. am i seeing it artificially squashed or perhaps the dimensions are accurate. the composition is very good. lighting is not perfect all the way through. the greens seem a tad underexposed on the mountaintop. feels like there is a little too much blue here.