First attempt at Seascape...

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Loved seeing the see today, haven't seen a coastline for about 13 years.
Two things I have realised:
1) I really need some ND Filters
2) Live view is a battery killer (had to stop shooting as ran out of battery)

 

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Portland Bill!

Yep, looked on google maps in the morning, came across PB, then decided to check it out. For the last shot, I managed to climb up the pit thing with all my camera gear. Took a few shot's, then battery ran out, Doh!

Below is where I took the shot from...

Great stuff Exception, love the processing as well.

For an ND I'd recommend a B&W ND110 10 stop. I've got one and its superb.

Cheers ManCuBuS, trouble is though, I need something that will fit on my 14-24.

Do you mean ND grads rather than just ND's?

Mainly need just ND's to be able to slow the shutter down. ND grads could be useful, but I can do that by taking a couple of exposures and doing it in post.

Nd filters? Why so you can produce long exposure shots of fluffy waves crashing on the shore

I've grown to detest that, it's the new selective colouring

I can never get on with live view in anything like daylight, I prefer to just hyper focal focus and get sharpness that way. Dof master app on my phone uses less battery because like you I was amazed how quick live view eats a battery.

You maybe be right, but for now at least I think it looks kind of cool. Ultimately I'm just wanting to try new stuff.
I found Liveview was also nice to use them composing the shot, especially if the camera was really low.

Nice shots but with that amount of cloud in the sky I can't help thinking they would have been even better later in the day when the sun was setting (not always practical I know)

I wanted to, but where the sun was, it was just thick solid cloud which looked pretty boring.

last shot aside which seems to be a bit blue, they are some lovely shots right there

Thanks James, the last one is more blueish because theshot was taken later in the evening at blue hour.

 

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From what I can tell Lee do a SW150 filter system, and there is another system here.

 

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Hmm, might try this and this.

Might try hacking about with the Cokin some more to get rid of vignetting...

 

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Hmm, went back yesterday armed with more batteries, however got lost due to some Olympic diversions, by the time I got there it was pitch black, and I needed my phone to be able to see camera settings. It was a little scary being out there in almost complete darkness (apart from light house), however it was pretty fun, although as I couldn't see where I was walking, I didn't want to get within drowning distance.

Also does anyone know if 'long exposure' noise reduction does anything to the raw that I can't do in post? Seems these long exposures can get quite noisy, sometimes I found they were less noisy if I upped the ISO rather than leave the shutter open.

Below is what I managed to salvage from the evening before submitting to the cold (only wearing shorts and t-shirt)...

 

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There is another dial on the left that isn't backlit. It's this dial that you use for thing's like liveview, mirror lockup, single shot etc.

 

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Apparently CPL's don't work well for UWA's

 

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Then this fad will stand the test of time. Unlike selective colouring etc.
HDR still looks good if it's done right and looks more natural. I think it's the over the top HDR processing that was the fad, which never looked good even when it was popular.

On a side note. I'm hardly going to stop enjoying taking such pictures just because they are popular at the moment. That doesn't make any sense.