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Thanks for your comments Carl and Bela.

 

Carl , this photo and the one you commented on earlier are both taken slightly tilted to the foreground. The camera is in both shots about 2 feet above ground level.I use a anglefinder and rubber kneecaps to work comfortable......i get wet many thimes though.

 

I somethimes use gradient filters (mostly handheld) in front of the lens if the horizon is almost straight. If you would use a gradient in this photo the top of the rock would be darkened as well. In this shot i blended two exposures to get the dynamic range of the scene. One exposure for the sky and one exposure to get some shadow detail on the darker stones in the foreground. The transition zone is about at sea level in this photo.

Photo taken at low tide in Etretat (Normandy). The arc and rock are

backlit by the lights that are illuminating the beach in front of the town.

Well composed and great colors.

I'am always exited when i need to walk trough the 20meter long dark hole in the rock to get at this location.

It looks allmost real this baby...doesnt it.

I hope i'am right and this is one of the many giant statues made by Ron Mueck.

Well captured .

 

This is a very good photograph and i like it a lot.....though its not 100% perfect yet. Imho the transition zone at the horizon(the left side) is a bit to hard and to dark.

Ik dacht eerst dat deze foto gepikt was van een fotograaf uit Belgie toen ik hem tussen de thumbnail foto's zag......maar toen zag ik ook een voor mij bekende naam onder de foto staan. Deze foto past helemaal bij het landschaponderdeel van deze formidabele site.;0)

Hi.

All comments are most welcome. Please tell me what you like or

dislike in this picture.

Photo was taken at sunset. The pink granit rocks got a red warm glow.

Let me know what you like or dislike about this photo.

Very good work. I like it very much because you did not apply the hdr-effect to much.

Stunning photo ...very well composed.

The clipped highlights at the horizon are a bit distrackting though. You have done a better job controling these highlights in the previous photo from the same scene.

Photo taken at Ambleteuse beach (near Calais France)

Let me know what you think.

Another masterpiece....i really enjoy looking at your landscapephoto's.

This is one of the reasons why i keep coming back to photo.net

I really enjoy these stunning landscape photo's. Well captured!

Thanks Lucy.

 

The trick to getting so close to these flies is easy. Just keep trying to get close enough,sooner or later there's one that does not fly away. Try to get a photo of them in the morning or late afternoon when the temperature is low. They are a lot less activ then. Succes!

Hi Alibek.

 

This is a one shot photo taken in the afternoon( about 18.00 pm).I wish i could have been a bit longer on this beach to get the sunset.But you get completely closed in by the rising water if you wait to long.

I'am not sure what you mean by shadow of the clouds or where you see this. The sky was almost completely cloudless. I even had to wait a while for these thin clouds to appear in the sky and make it a bit less dull.

The rocks and stones in the middle of the frame where not darkened by any shadow, they are covered in alge and dirt. Thanks for the comment.

Hi Chris

 

I like this photo a lot....in fact i visited this place last week.(see my landscape folder).You managed to capture the sun an bright sky very well here.The rest of the scene is also very well exposed. Well done!

 

Stunning photo! The marble sky with gods ray's coming through....the tree on the beach...all fits in perfectly. Well done!

....for all the comment.

@ Stephen; The reason why i dit not get a better sky( later in the afternoon would have been a lot better) that day was because this bay can only be reached at low tide. If i waited much longer i could get trapped on the small beach for a few hours. You can see the green line on the rockface.....that how high the seawater gets at high tide. I surely will get back there at a later date this year. Hopefully i can get a few sunsets with a lesser dull sky without getting my feet wet. Thanks for your comment!

 

@Camillo ; The rocks in front are not that big. They look much more interresting when you use a very low camera angle. The camera was about a foot above the rocks on a tripod .This makes them look quite impressive and you get a lot of details. Using a high aperture number(f16)ensures a lot depth of field in the photo.

 

Thanks again!

What do you like or dislike about this photo....all building

critique most welcome

Al critique or comment always welcome.

@ Alibek

 

The background becomes black due the low power from the build-in flash.Somethimes its an advantage and somethimes its a disadvantage.....it worked well in this photo imho.

Photo taken at Ambleteuse near Calais(France). All coments are most

welcome.

Hi Alibek

 

I think this was taken at 2:1. I do not have a ring or twin-flash(yet) so if i go to close to the fly it will be darkened by the shadow of the lens. I can get as close as 3:1 and still get the light upon these insects with the build in flash. All my macro's are handheld , this is fast and easy( imho).I had the chance to take a few photo's before the insect decided to leave.

Hi Ben

 

The 20D is modified with a B+W 093 infrared filter. I followed the diy-tutorial on Lifepixel.com. to replace the ir-blocking filter by a infrared filter.

I can see you are experimenting with equipment to get magnification.

Your technique of glueing two UV -filters toghether is a good idea untill the glue lets go. Result one broken or scratched 50mm1.4. I you use two 58mm cokin filterholder-adapters its much less expensive and without the risk of damaging your lenses.These adapter have the male thread at one side and the other side is a big flat surface(flange). In this surface you could drill some small holes(4).The flanges can be bolted with small bolts. If you drill the holes in the same place every time, you could make several combinations with other threadsizes. The A system from cokin is the cheapest and has many different thread adapters.I also searched for the reverse-rings but without succes.