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cape kiwanda is a few minutes north of lincoln city. there are sea stacks, tide pools and sand dunes there. if you hike to the top of the sand dunes there are some long dead gray trees sticking through the sand. i bet the morning light would light 'em up real nice.
I've wondered about HDR myself because it can become a crutch when used too often. But I think we are also debating different styles within photography. The cartoonish look of some HDR isn't necessarily a bad thing. You just need to take it for what it is and kinda accept it as a style that you...
the highlights do get blown out with long exposures of water used in an HDR. i took a similar shot where everything looked fine except a spot of blown out water. i wonder if you froze the water in all but one of the exposures - if it would solve it.
I use a Takumar 50mm F4 1:1 macro lens with my Canon 5d mkii and get amazing results. It's a 50 year old lens and strictly manual, but the images have amazing color saturation and sharpness and the thing is dirt cheap compared to the Canon macro lenses. I paid $6 for mine at a thrift store plus...
yep, 30 seconds is the absolute limit for freezing stars, which pretty much requires an f2.8 lens unless you wanna shoot at iso1600+ - which ain't gonna be pretty! great first attempt. I'm looking forward to seeing more.
have you tried using colored gels? you can do some really fun things...a headlamp might not be powerful enough to paint with em but to give you an idea here's a photo i did while camping over the weekend. i painted the red light, blue inside the car, red on the break lights and just used plain...
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