Beach in Galicia

[Ken Rennie]

Another Spanish image but this one taken in 2017. I thought that I had found photographic heaven on this beach but am disappointed with many of the images taken that day and this is one of them. If you are wondering why so much wasted sky I often/ almost always have my camera level in both plains producing an image with far too much sky. I started this after taking a series of images of lighthouses with the camera pointed downwards to include the foreground in what I envisaged as the final composition. With a wide angle lens all sorts of difficult to deal with things occur. The horizon bends, verticals lean and when straightened in post the man made object looks odd and often requires a fair bit of warp to fix. So with a 36Mp camera I can afford to have the camera level knowing that I will lose a bit of resolution. A tilt shift lens would be the answer and I would love the Nikon 19mm one but it is far too expensive for me. I often produce panoramas again with the camera perfectly level in both plains and this solves the problem of losing resolution and tilting odd shaped regular objects but is a pain with moving water. I have posted my best attempt this time. Feel free to download and modify in any way that you see fit. Ken

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• Ken Rennie
• Nov 30, 2018

Galicia

My best attempt

 

[Ben Egbert]

Hello Ken, and thanks for posting this in critique.

I took a quick run at it. I noticed a lot of vignetting, especially for f14, did you perhaps use a filter that intrudes?

Here is my shot at it, just a normal process and a round of Topaz Brilliant cool. Not much different than yours. Its a very nice image by the way.

Incidentally, I do panos stitches of white water all the time and don't have a problem stitching them in Photoshop.

 

[Ken Rennie]

Ben a little stopper and a 2 stop soft grad on the sky plus I have not enabled profile corrections. I should have explained my problems with moving water panos, waves are a problem as they seldom line up and making them line up can be a problem and in this case I don't think that any of the images were worth it. I have already posted one image taken from here, ie a misty image of a woman walking towards me and I will post what I think are better images from this stunning beach. Ken

 

[Ken Rennie]

Hello Ken, and thanks for posting this in critique.

I took a quick run at it. I noticed a lot of vignetting, especially for f14, did you perhaps use a filter that intrudes?

Here is my shot at it, just a normal process and a round of Topaz Brilliant cool. Not much different than yours. Its a very nice image by the way.

Incidentally, I do panos stitches of white water all the time and don't have a problem stitching them in Photoshop.

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Ben using an Xstop ND filter will always cause vignetting and the wider the lens the greater the effect. The only way to stop this would be to have curved filters with a different curve for each focal length. Alternatively use the vignette tool in ps. Polarisers should not produce this effect. Ken

 

[Ben Egbert]

I opened it in ACR and added the lens correction. I did not attempt any further vignette reduction, but I could have.