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On a recent trip down to Manns Point park at the end of Greenwich on Sydney harbour I tried some long exposure compositions leading up to and past sunset.

This first taken before sunset with the B+W 10 stop ND along with my Lee 0.6 (2 stop) hard Grad ND. I've got to say trying to position the grad whilst the 10 stop ND is on is very very tricky (you basically can't see much at all through the viewfinder - you have to wait some time till your eye adjusts to the very little light and when you can faintly see the action of the GND as you move it)



After the sun has set and during twilight I turned my attention the other way and tried some shots towards the city just with the 0.9 (3 stop) GND.

I'm not sure if including these old railway sleepers sticking out over the water works or not (my wife thinks not I suspect )



There were these lovely striped sandstone boulders near the waters edge which I've tried to use for foreground interest along with the silhouette of the dead collapsed tree branches - I've got a couple slightly different variants of this - again I'm not sure this has worked - suggestions?



I think I'm happiest with this vertical composition with some foreground rocks and the semi submerged oyster encrusted rock (I added a small touch of light painting on some of the rocks during the long exposure) and a smidgen of the tree further back and the city in the distance shrouded in a cool city lit fluffy cloud layer

I like the vertical composition of the last but it looks a little overexposed and there seems to be a colour cast on the foreground rocks.

CraigVTR wrote:I like the vertical composition of the last but it looks a little overexposed and there seems to be a colour cast on the foreground rocks.

Thanks Craig - the building lights certainly were very hot (blown) but the rest of the scene isn't but perhaps it does need a more darker moodier look. Here is one with an overall -2/3rds of a stop plus a selective WB adjustment on the rocks (which I had light painted a little with a LED (cool) torch). Is this heading in the right direction?

Rodney
I think that is a definite improvement but I still see a slight bit of greenish colour on the rocks. The large rock lower left hand side is the most obvious to me and the cast reminds me of a fluro light green.