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Headed down to Broadbeach for dinner on our first night on the Gold Coast. The twilight sky was pretty amazing with some interesting clouds and great deep colour in the sky. Normally I'd do a nice long exposure on the tripod but I was just carrying the camera with the diminutive Tamron 17-50/2.8 so I took this one handheld (1/30 sec at f/2.8 and ISO 1600)



The next night I went out close to where we were staying with tripod and filters to see what we could do

This one is just before sunset (5:30PM) with the B+W ten stop ND for a nice long exposure (3 minutes)



and one much later (6:20PM) towards the end of twilight - another long exposure (3 minutes) but just with a CPL and 2 stop ND grad

Rodney

I like the first of these a lot, but can't help thinking it's leaning to the left,

The second just doesn't work - it's too unnatural with the glassy water stopping so sharply against the sand.

crop that last one to pano and its looking pretty darn sweet, also if you can be bothered, i would just clone out the blurred sail mast on the two boats..

stubbsy wrote:Rodney I like the first of these a lot, but can't help thinking it's leaning to the left, The second just doesn't work - it's too unnatural with the glassy water stopping so sharply against the sand.

Good call - the rotation was pretty bad in the original as shot which I partially fixed but I was aligning by the top part of the building (which isn't straight anyway)

Not sure what to do with the second - I didn't much like the sand either when I shot it but I wanted the silhouette of the fronds of the tree hanging down from the top to add a modicum of interest to my compo so I was limited by where I had to put the camera. After this shot I moved down to the waters edge for pretty much everything else.

biggerry wrote:crop that last one to pano and its looking pretty darn sweet, also if you can be bothered, i would just clone out the blurred sail mast on the two boats..

- and awww man - PS again - that would be twice in one day - can't do that...

The first image still looks odd...esp when you follow the tower down to its base (its crooked!). The two other images bear potential (people have suggested what I was thinking)

aim54x wrote:The first image still looks odd...esp when you follow the tower down to its base (its crooked!). The two other images bear potential (people have suggested what I was thinking)

Thanks Cam... I hadn't posted a rotated #1 yet - how about?

Much better!