A few seascapes from Wales from yesterday.

These sort of shots are easily criticised, but are actually quite hard to do, especially if you're in water. Slight movement can wreck the whole thing for you. It's annoying on long exposures with wind or water!

I know I'd knock my tripod in the sea with the camera attached, so I won't be doing it any time soon.

Also, there are quite a few videos/tutorials of ND grads being used very effectively out there. I wouldn't dismiss them so readily :)
 
An Exception said:
@ Oldbag
I have some free time in September, I thought next time I might try some long exposures mixed with some flash.
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Yeah, it can have impressive results :) That reminds me, the photo posted in the pictures thread with the nikon (erm, forgotten model) and 12-24. I meant to ask if that was using curtain flash with that image. It seemed there was an additional light source, but that could be anything.

Going back several years, someone used to post long exposure shots using a flash. I can't remember who it was though :(
 
ElDude said:
These sort of shots are easily criticised, but are actually quite hard to do, especially if you're in water. Slight movement can wreck the whole thing for you. It's annoying on long exposures with wind or water!

I know I'd knock my tripod in the sea with the camera attached, so I won't be doing it any time soon.
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Venturing into the Sea was actually fun (gear is fully insured), I ended up almost fully dressed and waist deep by the end.
Trouble I have now is taking my tripod apart to clean out all the sand. :D
 
An Exception said:
Venturing into the Sea was actually fun (gear is fully insured), I ended up almost fully dressed and waist deep by the end.
Trouble I have now is taking my tripod apart to clean out all the sand. :D
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I remember reading someone saying their manfrotto (I think, was a long time ago) suffered a complete failure after using it in the sea. The carbon legs went all weird and snapped at the joints.

I'm paranoid about breakages, and don't have £200 a month to throw at tripods :D
 
well i use a red snapper tripod just as good and it only £70 - £80 for tripod & head. leg's on it are design to work at the standard tripod degree or pull the catch and you can set it up for low angle so that the camera is only 30cm off the ground. tripod itself is very robust so it can handle lot. as for using tripod in water or windly most tripod have spike's plus a hook so that a sandbag can be hung from the center of the tripod.

compress air can is very usefull for cleaning away sand or thing.
 
I know a guy who spent a FORTUNE on the best tripods, ones that designed to be used in these conditions...they all got wrecked. The sand in the joints are a killer for tripods.
 
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