Waikiki Beach Blue Hour

[splatbass]

I tried something different here, let me know what you think. D850, 16-35mm f4 (at 16mm), 2.5", f22, ISO220.

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[Biff]

Nice pic....what did you do different?

 

[splatbass]

Used a night filter. It cooled it down a bit.

 

[Biff]

Used a night filter. It cooled it down a bit.

I wonder how changing the white balance in raw would have worked?

 

[splatbass]

I wonder how changing the white balance in raw would have worked?

Probably similar.

 

[R.Philip]

I would have opened up the aperture. F/22 softened up the image with diffraction. I believe you could have gotten a sharper result with f/11. I would have also tried stacking to get the seawall sharp as a tack all the way through against the softened surf from the longer exposure. Nice composition.

 

[Harry.G]

I would have opened up the aperture. F/22 softened up the image with diffraction. I believe you could have gotten a sharper result with f/11. I would have also tried stacking to get the seawall sharp as a tack all the way through against the softened surf from the longer exposure. Nice composition.

@R.Philip

So to achieve an image in the manor that you are suggesting would you let’s say take a 3 or 4 shot sequence and focus on the wall at different places throughout the images to keep everything sharp ?

Then would another separate image need to be taken at a long exposure to gain the effects of the streaking clouds , and finally, blend ALL of the images together thus creating a pin sharp single photo with the effect of a long exposure being the outcome, would that be correct ?

Harry.G

 

[R.Philip]

The D850 has focus shift mode that does the focus stack for you. The method u suggest sounds like one method. Another would be to use a 3 or 6 stop ND filter in the focus stack. I believe the exposure would be sufficiently static to accomplish it all in the focus stack. The original image was only 2.5 seconds.

 

[robertbeal]

very nice