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Pescadero, CA, 2014. (fedia.io)

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Pescadero, CA, 2014.

All the pixels, none of the sand in your socks, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/14832380095

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Captured with a small full-frame camera and 21mm lens. A three second exposure smoothed waves and surf.

This was an exercise in tone, perspective, and convergence. The four major boundaries of the scene converge (approximately) near the center of the frame, forming a flattened X.

I moved around and composed this both with and without the driftwood in foreground, which interrupts the composition but, I decided, is helpful to anchor the frame.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Note that the metadata for this image claims it was shot at f/16. That's wrong; it was more like f/2.5 or so. This was an artifact of the too-clever-by-half way Leica M cameras estimate the f stop. There's no mechanical link between the aperture ring and the camera body, so instead they estimate the f-stop with a separate light sensor that's compared with the brightness of the recorded image. This works reasonably well, except when you use an ND filter (as here), which confuses it to no end.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

@[email protected] It works reasonably well for unreasonable amounts of reasonable.

Perhaps I'm just annoyed at often seeing f/2 for images in my Lightroom catalog shot with an f/2.8 lens, probably at f/4.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

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none of the sand in your socks

You might be doing beaches wrong Matt. ;)

That area brings up memories of my youth though, and I appreciate hearing how you conceive your compositions.