Couldn't Resist

I know my last post was of a Bandon Beach sea stack, but I just recently finished processing another image from that same evening and couldn’t resist showing that one as well.

The thing about these long-exposure sea stack images is that you can take a ton of them and each one is unique because the sea is moving differently each time the shutter is open. This exposure happens to be 15 seconds. That’s a lot of time during which the sea is swirling about and making different patterns.

But there are some challenges as well. After all, I wanted the sea stack itself to remain sharp, so the camera needs to be tripod mounted. This image was taken at a focal length of 400mm and so the wind can be a real challenge in terms of any movement of the camera or long lens during the exposure. The 400mm focal length magnifies any and all movement. And don’t get me started on seawater moving around the tripod legs resulting in the tripod slowly sinking into the sand as the water flows back to the sea. So another reason to make many exposures is to attempt to get a sharp capture of the stack as well as to obtain many different ocean patterns.

I have found that if there is a slight softness to the stack because of motion, Topaz Photo AI or Sharpen can restore sharpness nicely.

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Bandon Beach Sea Stack © Howard Grill

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