Sand Beach

Gallery: LandscapePosted February 4, 2015220 views5 comments

This is an infrared image looking south at Sand Beach in Acadia National Park. I really like the way the visually black rock weed glows on the rocks in infrared. I had to get into the surf to get this composition, so it was a bit challenging waiting for the tripod to stop sinking into the sand every time a wave came in. The normally sepia image was edited in PS using a red/blue channel swap.

Tripod mounted Olympus E-M1, 12mm, 8sec and f7.1 with Hoya R72 infrared filter.

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Comment posted by Harry Lichtman on February 4, 2015 at 8:02 PM

Looks mighty cold Steve. Interesting take on this location. The sky color shift is a little strong but a mystical feel to the shot. I can relate to the eroding sand under tripod legs. I find digging the legs in deep and leaning hard on the camera pressing down helps a little.

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Comment posted by Ryan Shain on February 5, 2015 at 8:20 PM

Hi Steve,

The water looks great with the 8sec exposure, and this image does indeed have a different feel to it, but it is kind of cool in that surreal way. I agree with Harry about the color shift in the sky, but I have no familiarity with IR filters either.

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Comment posted by Preston Birdwell on February 6, 2015 at 4:03 PM

Definitely different, Steve. The water and the foreground rocks look great. The sky seems a little out of character for the rest of the image, though. Nice experiment.

--P

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Comment posted by Steve Zimic on February 6, 2015 at 4:46 PM

Thanks for all your comments. With the multiple mentions of the sky color, I thought you might like to see the colors as they basically came out of the camera, before the R/B channel swap in PS.

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Comment posted by Chris Chamberlain on February 6, 2015 at 11:52 PM

This does look kind of cool, and different. At first I thought it was ice on the rocks. I think if you could even out the color shift in the sky, and lighten the dark hole on the middle right edge, this would work pretty well.

Chris

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