Hoya Pro ND64

Deze professionele filters van Hoya houden 6 stops aan licht tegen, zonder de kleuren te beïnvloeden. Dit gebruik je om de sluitertijd te kunnen verlengen of de diafragma-opening te kunnen vergroten, zonder dat je foto overbelicht wordt.

Met een langere sluitertijd kun je beweging prachtig vastleggen en met een groter diafragma krijg je een kleinere scherptediepte (mooie wazige achtergrond).

De Hoya ACCU-ND filtercoating zorgt voor kleurneutraliteit, maar is ook zo ontworpen dat andere filters uit dezelfde serie (bijv. ND8, ND1000 etc.) dezelfde witbalans hebben.

Een must voor elke serieuze fotograaf! Wil je meer weten over grijsfilters? Lees dan dit artikel: Hoe werkt een grijsfilter?

Voorbeeldfoto’s

Hieronder een greep uit de vele prachtige foto’s, gemaakt met deze filters, die je vindt op fotosite Flickr.

Fifty-three
My first ND picture. I bought a Hoya Pro ND64. Someday I hope to get some good pics with it. This is my first attempt. 53.2 second exposure.

Tramonto in laguna 5439
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.. illlil I /
A very cold and quiet morning at Haventje van Sil, Texel. I think even the birds were a bit chilly, as you can see some of them didn't move at all for at least 78 sec:) Thanks for having a look! All faves and comments are highly appreciated!

Floodlights at Kinderdijk II
Nog één van afgelopen maandag, ditmaal met de 6-stopper. Another shot of the illuminated windmills at Kinderdijk from last monday, this time with the 6-stopper.

Only in Rotterdam
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Takakkaw Falls BC
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Seascape
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Perfect wave
Vorig jaar op één van de vele mooie Zeelandse stranden. One year ago I was shooting at one of the many beautiful beaches of Zeeland.

Photography is fun!
Eerste upload dit nieuwe jaar is er een van alweer even geleden, en ook niet per se een waar ik heel blij mee ben. Maar wel een waaraan ik bij het maken veel plezier beleefde. Samen met dochterlief langs de molens met een zeer aangenaam weertje, een zacht briesje en redelijk licht. Misschien spreek ik voor mezelf, maar soms kun je zo bezig zijn met het streven naar het 'perfecte plaatje', of het halen van zelf opgelegde doelen, dat je bijna vergeet waarom je dit in eerste instantie bent gaan doen: Ga, alleen of met je naaste(n), op pad naar een mooi gebied in de buurt, hoop op een beetje acceptabel licht, zet je spulletje op, speel met wat filters en sluitertijden en heb vooral lol! Leek mij een mooi voornemen voor het nieuwe jaar :) (O ja, en dat perfecte plaatje schieten natuurlijk...!) Thanks for having a look! All faves and comments are highly appreciated!

Pier -left side-
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#02 Gulf of the Angels (Cagliari - Sardinia)
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So blue
Blue hour at Maasvlakte Beach Thanks for having a look! All faves and comments are highly appreciated!

Lighthouse Mangiabarche Sant'Antioco (Sardinia)
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Kinderdijk at sunset
Wat zijn we de laatste dagen verwend met mooie luchten! Op het allerlaatste moment gister besloten naar Kinderdijk te rijden, omdat de lucht er veelbelovend uitzag (en omdat het zo lekker dichtbij is). Twee minuten voor zonsondergang kwam ik half hollend aan op het steigertje, snel statief opzetten en 10 minuten later deze opname gemaakt. Of eigenlijk opnames, dit is een bracket met belichtingen van 1 minuut, een halve minuut en 15 seconden, samengevoegd in een hdr. Ik heb hiervoor een polarisatiefilter en een 6-stopper gebruikt. We have been very lucky last days with some beautiful sunsets and sunrises. Yesterday (on the very last moment) I went to the windmills at Kinderdijk, because the sky was looking very promising. I got there two minutes before sunset and took this shot about 10 minutes later. Or actually 3 shots, this is a HDR with exposures of 1 minute, 30 and 15 sec. I used a polariser and a ND-filter with 6 stops for the long exposure.

Gulf of the Angels (Cagliari - Sardinia)
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Have a seat
Stormachtig weer aan het het strand, hoog water en een paar filters, gegarandeerd plezier:) Stormy weather, high tide at the beach and some filters. Let's have some fun:)

Beach Weather III
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Long exposure at the Red Apple Rotterdam
Had het idee om dit mooie rode gebouw eens vast te leggen tegen een grijze achtergrond, maar wilde wel de verlichting aan hebben. Met de lage en overtrekkende bewolking waren de omstandigheden deze avond prima. Toch bleek het nog best lastig, omdat de lucht al snel een beetje blauw kleurde. Deze eerste poging moest eigenlijk goed zijn, gezien de lange belichting. Denk eigenlijk achteraf dat een mooie blue hour hier mogelijk sterker zou zijn, maar het is in ieder geval eens wat anders:) Techniek: 2 opnames, voor de lucht en het gebouw: ISO 100, F11, 153s (nd64) en 15s

Pier Scheveningen
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Heavy weather in The Hague
Vond deze opname wel passen bij de laatste verkiezingen. Want van een kleine storm in Den Haag kun je wel spreken. Waar dit toe gaat leiden? Dat zal moeten blijken, ik ben toch meer een mooi weer type denk...

Repetition
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Beautiful Texel
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Rhine Falls in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, are the largest waterfalls in Europe (150 m wide, 23 m high)
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Lighthouse Special at Hellevoetsluis
Yesterday evening was just... Thanks for having a look! All faves and comments are highly appreciated!

Delfshaven
Tussen de buien door hoopte ik op een beetje gouden licht op deze mooie gevels. En na een kwartier wachten gebeurde dat gelukkig, ik drukte af en dit waren tevens de laatste zonnestralen die deze dag de oude panden zo zouden oplichten. Gelukkig was ik deze keer op tijd, dat is ook wel eens anders geweest:) Between the rain showers, I was hoping to catch some golden light on this beautiful fronts of these very old buildings. And luckily after waiting for fifteen minutes or so they lit up exactly the way is was hoping for, these were also the last sun rays that broke through this day, so I was glad I was there in time:)

Dutch jungle
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Last light at Zell am See
Hier nog heerlijke temperaturen. Met de blote voetjes, in het water staand, deze long exposure gemaakt afgelopen zomervakantie:) Some lovely tempertures last year at my holiday in Austria. Here I was standing barefoot in the warm water of this beautiful lake. I wouldn't dare to try this right now:) Thanks for having a look! All faves and comments are highly appreciated!

Sunset at Spoorweghaven Rotterdam
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Pier Scheveningen
En ik had nog zo tegen mijn vriendin gezegd: "Geen foto's meer vandaag hoor." Maar als je op de pier zit met je spullen en je ziet dit licht, wat kan je dan anders? Het werd mijn favoriete shot van twee daagjes Den Haag! :) After I told my girlfriend to take no more photographs this day, this amazing light showed itself at the pier. I got my gear with me, so there was no way I could resist this scenery. Could you? I became my favorite shot of two days in The Hague! :)

Stormy weather at Kinderdijk
Beeld opgebouwd uit 2 opnames, 1/3s voor de wieken en 2s voor de dynamiek in het water. Vond het grappig om iets van de 2s ook in de wieken door te laten schemeren, zodat je toch een cirkel krijgt, bovenop de andere beweging in de wieken.

Van Brienenoordbrug Rotterdam
Met deze opname mijn serie afgemaakt, van Rotterdamse bruggen over de Maas. Beeld bestaat uit twee opnames met een 6-stopper, 211s voor de schaduwen en 98 voor de hooglichten rechts onder de brug. With this shot I've completed my serie of bridges in Rotterdam crossing the river 'de Maas'. Image is build out 2 exposures with a 6-stop nd filter, 211s for the shadows and 98s for the highlights under the bridge on the right side.

Kinderdijk at Twilight
Vanavond weer eens Kinderdijk gefotografeerd, samen met Wim Boon. Had een opname in gedachten vanaf deze positie, maar die kon ik niet schieten doordat er aan de steiger waar ik op stond een boot lag. Gelukkig attendeerde Wim mij erop dat de andere kant op ook nog een shot mogelijk was, dat liet ik me dus geen twee keer zeggen:) Again I went to Kinderdijk this evening, and made some photographs with Wim Boon. Thanks for having a look! All faves and comments are highly appreciated!

De Hef Rotterdam
Altijd handig als je telefoon (en tevens stopwatch) uitvalt als je een bulb opname wil maken... Daar stond ik dan de tellen langs de kade, zat er uiteindelijk 9 seconden naast. Viel niet tegen:)

Lighthouse Mangiabarche Sant'Antioco (Sardinia)
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Sunset at Hellevoetsluis
Gisteravond op bezoek in Hellevoetsluis en eindelijk de kans om even bij de vuurtoren te gaan buurten. En het was zeker geen onaardige zonsondergang. Gebruik gemaakt van een 6-stop grijsfilter voor het water en de lucht apart belicht.

Willemsbrug Rotterdam
Heel weinig tijd gehad laatste weken om te fotograferen... Dus maar even uit de nachtdienst naar de Oosterkade gereden voor een long exposure van de Willemsbrug, begon wel erg te kriebelen:) Don't have much time during these busy december days for photography, so decided to stay up after my nightshift for this long exposure of the Willemsbrug, which has been 'pimped' with some new lights this year:)

Colourful clouds at Broekmolen.
Net na zonsondergang ontstond er deze avond een heerlijke wolkenlucht. Ik heb gebruik gemaakt van een 6-stops grijsfilter om de reflectie in het stromende water beter tot zijn recht te laten komen.

Erasmusbrug Rotterdam
Weinig tijd gehad voor fotografie en Flickr deze week, maar ga alles nu rustig bekijken:) Deze nog van mijn laatste uitstapje naar Kop van Zuid. Dan moet je de brug wel even meepakken! Didn't have much time this week for photography and Flickr, but trying to catch up now:) This one is from my last trip to Rotterdam, and the Erasmusbridge is something you'll almost have to shoot once you're there!

A few months ago at Broekmolen
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Something's different
Exact dezelfde plek als mijn laatste upload. Zoek de verschillen... Helaas is deze locatie hedendaags niet meer zo mooi als hij was (vind ik tenminste). Het houtwerk en vooral die verschrikkelijke stoplichten maken het allemaal een stuk onrustiger. Het zal nodig zijn geweest, maar het (fotografisch gezien) inmiddels iconische bruggetje zal zoals de meesten het kennen voortaan alleen nog in de archieven te vinden zijn.

Beach pole 6Z
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Willemsbrug at sunrise
Ondanks de kou stond ik hier te genieten van een heerlijk serene en kleurrijke zonsopkomst. Opname is gemaakt vanaf vrijwel dezelfde positie als mijn laatste upload van de Erasmusbrug, hoefde alleen mijn camera een kwartslag te draaien op het statief:) Though it was quite a cold morning, I enjoyed the peaceful and colourful sunrise. It is taken from almost the exact same location as my latest post of the Erasmusbrug. The only thing I had to do is turn my camera 90 dergrees on my tripod, what a lovely location this city is:)

Field goal
Moest bij dit beeld direct aan American Football denken, met de twee palen en de 'bal' ertussen. Wist alleen niet hoe het scoren door middel van het schieten van de bal, uit een vrije trap en tussen de palen, heette... Na enig onderzoek bleek dit dus een Field goal te zijn.

West coast (Sardinia)
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Coloursplash at Radio Kootwijk
Als ik inmiddels iets heb geleerd binnen de fotografie, is het dat je niet vaak tweede kansen krijg. Ik had deze locatie al langer op mijn lijstje staan, en was deze week in de buurt. De omstandigheden leken redelijk goed die namiddag, hoge sluierbewolking en iets lagere wolken die langzaam overdreven. De tijd echter, kwam niet erg handig uit. Ook zelf had ik niet veel puf om weg te gaan. Te vaak heb ik in zo'n situatie gegokt op de volgende dag, waarbij het dan toch opeens erg tegen viel. Ik weet daardoor nu dat als de omstandigheden goed zijn, en je in de buurt ben, er wel een heel goed excuus moet zijn om niet te gaan. Zo kwam deze avond alles bij elkaar. De kleuren waren spectaculair, en het was zoals zo vaak optimaal genieten. Toen de kleurrijke wolken langzaam achter het gebouw langsdreven, maakte ik bijna een klein vreugdedansje:) Dit is een gestapelde opname van 4 shots met een belichtingstijd van +/- 50s, voor een totale tijd van 3m20s. Ik wilde zo alle kleurenpracht pakken die er vlak na zonsondergang ontstond, en een iets softere sfeer weergeven. Daarbij heb ik het gebouw apart belicht omdat HDR niet mogelijk was met deze tijden. Blij met dit resultaat.

Takakkaw Falls BC
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Maasvlakte sunset
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The Chemours Company Dordrecht
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Lighthouse illumination
Sometimes a lighthouse doen't have to put on its lights to shine!

Pier -right side-
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Ode to Black (Black Hope) IV - Shadow Black
(EXPLORED - July 02, 2013) www.juliaannagospodarou.com Strata SE1 Building, London - Architects BFLS London Another image in my series Ode to Black (Black Hope) with an addition or a change in the name, I still don't know if I will keep both names or just one, I'll probably decide when I reach the end of the series, as now it is still a work in progress. The change in name came from a change in direction as for the meaning of the series. Many times I work on my images in a certain way, or rather creating a certain atmosphere or general feel that can come from the use of shapes (like in “Like a Harp's Strings”series), the use of subject (as in Catharsis series), or the use of light, as now in the “Black Hope” series. I feel the need to explore different paths every time and express myself through different elements or use different ways of representation and I believed till very recently that this is a rational and conscious decision and choice that I make. But working on the Black series I discovered that, while the way I'm working on my images, technically speaking, is a very rational and controlled one, since I aim to create a perfect image at the end of the process, the way my vision is born and the way it evolves till the final touch of brush on the image: the whole process from capturing my images, choosing which ones to process and then finally processing them, is rather a subconscious process that guides me many times without me even noticing it. Something very close to what they say about "being in a trance state" and following your vision there. This series started apparently from nowhere, then it became an exploration of color black, of the absence of light and a challenge to see how far I can go with removing light till it doesn't exist anymore, to eventually turn into a psychological introspection with the unseen and unnoticed intention in the beginning (but that came to surface just recently) to express extreme emotions and be a highly personal representation of the world I see around me. Art is personal, art is selfish and I believe that in essence whatever we create is an expression of our inner need to explain the world, regardless if we believe that we study shapes, different subjects or experiment with light. Technical data:_ 286.0 sec. @ f/11, Nikon 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 ED AF-S DX @ 13mm, ISO 100. Processing: LR4, PS CS6, NIK Silver Efex Pro 2. If you want to read some more of my thoughts about this image and the series, you're welcome to do it on my site blog.juliaannagospodarou.com/ode-to-black-black-hope-iv-s... And if you want prints of this image, or any of my images, stay tuned, I'll be back with some very nice surprises these days... Last but not least, on September 5-8 I'll be in Chicago with a great team of fine art photographers teaching a Fine Art Architectural Workshop. Join us to learn everything about this kind of photography! visionexplorers.com/chicago-2013 Also, join me for private workshops and online mentoring courses www.juliaannagospodarou.com/Workshops/Private-Workshops/2... _______________________________________________________________________________ Website | Facebook | Facebook Page | Google+ | 500px | Art Limited | 1x.com | Twitter | LinkedIn

Ode to Black - Black Hope II – Anima Black
www.juliaannagospodarou.com _Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco - Architect Daniel Libeskind_ Another addition to my Black series and the darkest and most difficult to work with so far, because of the dark tones and the limited range that I decided to use in my processing, but also because of the complexity of the volume and the fact that whatever light and shadow you see here is created from scratch according to my vision for this object. The building is one of the highlights of San Francisco and is in fact an addition to the museum, but is so impressive that it is drawing all the attention to it once you reach the square in front of the museum. The structure is cladded in dark-blue diamond shape steel sheets which can be astonishingly bright in the sun, but looking very dark and melancholic if the weather is overcast. The most challenging when taking the shot was to find the best angle, the one that would tell what I intended it to tell and finally this angle was what you see. The space in front of the museum is narrow and long and finding a spot where you have open view to the entire volume, as well as an interesting composition is really difficult. But there is always a solution if you want to find it. So, what I did was to find my solution But I had to pay a price for it. Even if there were some other angles I could use with less cluttered background, the building itself wasn't “speaking” to me in any other way so what I had to do was to take this photo as it is but remove the background that was a high-rise building totally oppressing the delicate volumes of the museum. Meaning I had to shoot the building and the sky separately and reunite them in post. So, what you see now is quite far from reality, but as you know by now, I am not driven by the intention to mimic reality in my work, on the contrary, I'd say that I try to “run away” from it and present my own reality, even if what I create is just slightly resembling the real world. This image is one of the closest to this “alternative reality” concept and to the concept of “(en)visionography” that define my work and they illustrate it perfectly. What you see is my ideal proposal for this space and building, a perfect image of it as I envision it in my mind. Also an image that can be a piece of the puzzle in the story that my Ode to Black – Black Hope series tells. More about the concept of the series with my next image that is coming soon. Processing wise, this image is again one of those which could be considered typical to illustrate the technique I'm using when processing, the “photography drawing” technique. You've heard me talking about this before quite a few times but I've never went into details because I wasn't really considering it a technique for a long time. It had a slow evolution but recently I realized that I'm every time doing the same things even if I don't search for this and I like to experiment as much as I can. But somehow I always end up doing the same things, more or less and having consistent results. As usually, in an attempt to keep this short, if you want to read more about the processing of this image or ask me anything you can head over to my site for morehttp://blog.juliaannagospodarou.com/ode-to-black-black-hope-ii-anima-black/ If you are curious to find out even more, I will have to make a more in depth description at some point. Let me know if you would want this. Technical data:_ 286.0 sec. (for the sky), 1/60 sec. (for the building), @ f/11, Nikon 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 ED AF-S DX @ 10mm, ISO 100. Processing: LR4, PS CS6, NIK Silver Efex Pro 2 Note: On September 5-8 I'll be in Chicago with a great team of fine art photographers teaching a Fine Art Architectural Workshop. Join us to learn everything about this kind of photography! visionexplorers.com/chicago-2013 Also, join me for private workshops and online mentoring courses www.juliaannagospodarou.com/Workshops/Private-Workshops/2... You can find limited and open edition prints of this image on my site. Don't forget I have a 25% -35% off promotion for limited edition prints at the moment. on.fb.me/17o1I0F _______________________________________________________________________________ Website | Facebook | Facebook Page | Google+ | 500px | Art Limited | 1x.com | Twitter | LinkedIn

Illuminations on NYE
Not the greatest from a compositional standpoint but it was the best spot I could get on NYE

By building bridges, beautiful things can grow, even at the most ugly and uncommon places.
f11, 145s, ISO 100. Is niet terug te vinden in de exif data doordat ik de roos apart heb belicht (stond een aardig windje). Ook LED gebruikt om te roos te belichten. Vond het bepaald geen mooie locatie om te fotograferen maar deze eenzame roos trok mijn aandacht, al met al toch redelijk tevreden over deze opname.

ode to black II - abstract black
New Acropolis Museum, Athens – Architect Bernard Tschumi (shot during my Athens Architectural Workshop, Nov 2012) “I’ve been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.”- Auguste Renoir I've always had a strong affinity for the color black. When I was little and someone would ask us the kids what color we like I never knew what to answer because I was thinking: I like black, but black is not a color (that's what I kept hearing for years in a row) so I would every time answer something different: blue, green, orange and so on, just to say something that was considered “right”. And even now, every other color that I like and impresses me comes after black. Black is the absence of light, they say. I say black is the hidden light, it's the absorbed mysterious light, it's a promise and a question at the same time. There is plenty of light in black, it's just not obvious, one has to discover it. It takes time, and you have to watch very carefully and be prepared to discover a secret. Black is a secret in itself ...and I'm trying to find this secret... I just hope I won't need 40 years as Renoir did :) This image is in a way a sequel of my "ode to black I – whispering black" one and it might be the beginning of a series, of a study about the color black and the subdued light, also a question I have and that I'm trying to answer and which is how far I can go with dimming the light till I will feel I have reached the edge. It was not a conscious decision to follow this path in the beginning, it just came as a need to explore the darker zones and it came gradually, but now I have some more ideas in mind and they will probably follow this pattern in the months to come. _271 sec. @ f/9, Nikon 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 @ 10mm, ISO100, 10+6 stops ND filters (Hoya Pro 1 Digital ND64 & B+W ND110)_ _______________________________________________________________________________ Google+ | 500px | Art Limited | 1x.com | Facebook | Facebook Page | Twitter

Ruisseau de Palavesani
Pentax k3 II, objectif Pentax HD DA 16-85mm à 23mm,HDR 4 expositions, mode manuel & filtre Hoya pro ND64, F11 & F18, 1.3s à 4s, 100 iso. Raw DNG. En amont de la cascade de Piscia di Gallo.

Light
Deze avond bleef de zon door de wolken heenkomen, en ik hoopte dat de zon er op het strand, met zondondergang, goed door zou breken. Daarvoor bleef het te bewolkt, maar wat daardoor wel bleef was een constante warme gloed van zonnestralen aan de horizon. Voor mij meer dan interessant genoeg om uit te lichten!

The Wrong Trousers on Micks BDay
As you all know we sprung a surprise on Mike Ridley on July 15th for his 50th down at Whitburn. This is my first shot taken that morning and the first shot ive tinkered with on the Mac Book Pro. Im slowly getting to grip with it but have to google stuff every 2 minutes :/ I hadnt revisisted my shots from that morning after uploading one just after the event and when opening Adobe Bridge CS6 for the first time this one was sitting there but it was very dark as i had bracketed a few shots. After a tickle in ACR and PS its came out canny. Not as good as Mark Southgates by a long stretch, someone whos shots im would love to emulate one day :) On another note ive just uploaded this straight from the desktop without having to use the Flickr Uploader or anything :) I think its a Mountain Lion OSX update :D

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A few months ago back in April I visited the Quayside with a few friends to take shots in and around the Sage then we visited a platform at the bottom of Dean Street to take shots of Sandgate and the Tyne Bridge. On the way to this platform I noticed we had arrived at the base of Cale Cross House which towers over the Tyne Bridge on the Newcastle side of the River Tyne. Although light was fading as it was around sunset I just had to try a long exposure so set up and opted for my Hoya ND64 which is a 6 stop ND filter. Cloud movement was perfect for this type of shot and after a few test shots I ended up with the a 384 second exposure that looked great even on the back of the camera! Anyone who knows me or follows my photography will know that Long Exposure is my favourite type of photography and I especially love Fine Art architectural photography. To take a scene and try and put your artistic slant on it is really enjoyable but it is very Photoshop reliant and this is where I need to learn so much in this area. Hopefully in this shot ive made a leap from my previous stuff. Tech Info... Canon 5D Mk3 Canon 17-40 f4L USM 17mm 384 seconds f11 ISO 100 Other Equipment Used... 3 Legged Thing Eric Tripod Kirk L Bracket Filters... Hoya ND64 Processing Info... RAW file opened in Adobe Camera Raw where basic lens corrections were made. I didnt have to do anything with the comp as the shot was amazingly perfectly lined up in camera which I think was down to having the Kirk L Bracket. In Photoshop I created 2 mono versions of the shot in Silver Efex Pro 2, 1 for the sky and 1 for the building. Next I created a selection around the perimeter of the building using the Quick Selection Tool and began to make adjustments to both the sky and the building individually. I now had the basis of what I wanted to achieve so after this stage I began to use Luminosity Masks to target specific areas in order to get really white whites and dark blacks. To achieve this with the masks I used Tony Kuypers Curve adjustments within the masks. By doing this for example I could specifically make the lighter areas brighter and whiter without affecting the overall image. I applied a sharpening layer with Niksoft Sharpener using my selection to only affect the building. Once I had got this stage done I began to notice that my initial selection around the building was poor which meant that I had a hard white halo around the building which was about 3 or so pixels wide, something I know is inevitable with this kind of hard contrast look. Maybe the sharpening had highlighted it also. The remedy for this is to crop in to 500-600% and use the clone tool with a hard brush. This part is very time consuming and taxing on the eyes I can say! I also repeated this process around the rings that are dotted across the building until I was happy. I opened the file in Imagenomic Noiseware Pro to remove some noise over the full scene and that was the shot finished! I had initially began processing this one back in May but sometimes I leave a shot and return to it when ive gained a bit more experience and have more time as they are very time consuming. Great fun but frustrating at times with my lack of knowledge you need for this type of shot. Please stop by my page on Facebook if youre on there aswell :) Photography by Phil Whittaker

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After doing some Columbo style investigating on Friday night and Saturday morning about what height the tide had to be to breach the WW2 Tank Defence Blocks at Blyth i just knew Saturday at 3.30 was the time i had to be there! It was high tide then which coincided with the golden hour but as i was about to break the news to Wifey it started snowing :[ Now i wasnt gonna get another chance as other high tides were pretty much after sunrise in the coming days then after that they dip below 5 metres so not to be defeated i broke the news, got a few frowns then it was on. We would go together as Claire was worried i'd be swept away lol. Upon arriving the sky was just awesome! Massive big storm clouds, rain on the horizon or water being carried across the sea, rainbows to the North, the sky lighting up to the West... i didnt know where to look :O As we ran over the grass towards the promenade i noticed the brilliant clouds above the Beach Huts so fired off a few iPhone shots before running to the beach in anticipation... Would the blocks be in the seas grasp or would they be high and dry?? Woohoo, the sea was raging with wave after wave crashing around them much to my joy but to Claires dismay :D I ran down through the dunes to the short stretch between the Southern most Groynes to blocks that arent even on Flash Earth and got set up. I had a vision, very long exposures with flat milky water... well after my first shot i realised this just was not gonna happen! The sea was relentless, i was up to my knees and poor Eric was taking a battering. (Erics my tripod) :P I had mounted my Hoya 6 Stop Filter on the 10-20 before hand as you can still compose with it on then i was adding my Hoya NDX400 which is nearly 9 stops so was getting around 4 minute exposures. With sea like this that was just impossible! I had plunged the tripod feet well into the sand but you heard crack after crack as rocks clattered the legs over and over. I tried many different shots but in the end had to dump the darker ND and go for some wooshery action and oh was there some wooshery going on :D I captured some shots at that section then moved on to the blocks i had originally came to shoot. There must be about 20 stretched out between the last groyne and the broken poo pipe. (People whove been will think that sounds normal lol) Anyway upon getting in position it became clear that as with the first set of blocks the tide was too lairy and maybe a bit too high... By now Claire was shaking badly with the cold so i cracked on and got some more wooshery shots after trying a few more long exposures (which are all crap). This one seemed to jump out in Adobe Bridge so after converting to mono in Silver Efex Pro 2 here it is :) Have to say that these were the best conditions ive seen, if not very good for your camera gear! Mother Nature in its rawest form :O Special mention to Claire for being understanding and also tagging along... she was frozen to the bone when we got back to the car but i have to mention one of the funniest things ive seen! Upon agrreing to wrap in i unscrewed my Hoya filter and opened the box but the bloody foam disc flew out onto the dunes past her. She chased after it and every time she went to grab it it flew off again which had me pissing my self... Eventually she caught it after it somehow got impaled on a twig lol Atleast it warmed her up a bit lol If you guys have ~~Anita~~ on your Friends List check out her awesome woosh shot from just South of these blocks on the same day, infact probably within the same hour :)

Cloud painting
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10/53 - Boccadasse al Tramonto
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Weathered
Please Hit 'L' :) After recently losing our Gizmo i havnt used my camera atall and also its snowed nearly everyday since but eventually there seemed to be a break in the weather so i nipped down to St.Marys and Tynemouth after work as the tide was 5.2m high and i had an idea of finding stairs going into the sea. Also Ive always enjoyed looking at Fine Art shots of tidal pools so wondered if our very own Tynemouth Outdoor Pool had anything to offer at high tide. After popping to St.Marys i drove down to the end of Long Sands and walked down to the pool. The shots i imagined arent possible due to the different nature of our tidal pool as its raised quite a bit above the sea and fills through a hole at the bottom. The exterior rails are very weathered and it is looking a bit sorry! Hopefully the plans for its revamp will go ahead and if so it will be a great attraction as it was back in the day where thousands flocked to it. In this shot i used my Hoya ND64 directly on the lens then added my Lee Foundation Kit to it where i had the 3 stop soft grad in. Once i composed the shot i added the Lee Big Stopper which stretched the exposure to 6 odd minutes. However Claire rang me and while talking i ran over and it ended up being 9mins 11 sec! Processing wise the original shot included part of the inner pool but i felt the land and seaside buildings were cluttering the shot. I cropped square then using the wacom made an accurate selection on the rails where i sharpened using Niksoft Sharpener Pro 3. Also i lightened the railed a tad then inverted the selection and darkened the sky. Shot Location

Smeared Leaves
Shot with a Tamron 70-300 VC with a Hoya Pro ND64 filter on it. I wanted to try this for a while, a long lens coupled with long exposures.

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The West Highland Way. Taken with Hoya Pro ND64 filter

Pastel Pond (Friday morning)
I made this photo during a morning bike ride in the town i grew up. The sun was only a few degrees above the horizon and the light was perfectly diffused by low fog on the lake. geese were swimming in formation just out of frame and there were nice reflections in the water. Im happy the way this image came out, Its amazing what can be done with a few raw images :-) __image details__ 4 images bracketed for dynamic range exposure times:1.3/3.2/5/10 seconds Shutter 20 secs aperture F14 focal length 55mm aperture mode ISO 100 Hoya ND64 Sony a390 DSLR tripod

Hard Rock Cafe, Kuwait
A long exposure with the aid of a HOYA ND64 (5-stop) 77mm filter screwed onto my 17-35mm Nikkor lens a little after sunrise. Leaving my comfort zone paid! All pros insist it does!

Movimiento de las nubes
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Mar de nubes
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SS Ayrfield Homebush 02
Canon 80D Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 DC HSM Art 120s, ISO100, f/1.8, 35mm Hoya Pro ND1000 + Hoya Pro ND64

Whitburn Pre Dawn
View Large On Black As some of you wouldve read on various North East Flickr members streams yesterday it is our good friend Mike Ridley's 50th BDay very soon so we sneakily arranged a pre BDay party for him through Facebook at Whitburn where he was going for a sunrise shoot on Sunday morning. We went armed with fireworks and a cake which we presented him with before heading down the cliffs! :O These are the times when you just love photography, standing with great friends on a beach watching sunrise and fireworks :D We had a great morning and even a slice of cake at about 5.30 am lol. I was too tired to mess with Photoshop yesterday after finally giving in to sleep deprevation at about 2pm :/ So with a fresh mind heres one of my efforts from yesterday morning. I got to use my new Hoya Pro Digital ND64 6 Stop filter which come highly recommended from Steve Boote (thanks!). Its brilliant as you can compose etc with out removing it as its nowhere near as opaque as a 10 Stop. I had it on the lens with my Lee Foundation Kit stacked and had no vignetting at 10mm which is great. I had the Lee 0.9 Soft Grad in there aswell for this shot taking out my Hard Grad due to the stack being in shot. I can see this combo being a permanent fixture in the future :) I was still managing 30 second exposures predawn and even after sunrise was getting some nice exposures where i could either flatten the water out or by changing the aperture a bit get some nice 1-2 second water action shots. Ive also bought the Hoya NDX400 8.6 Stop ND which looks promising but i didnt get to use that :/ On another note i also got to test my newly IR converted Nikon D70 after leaving as me a Dru swerved by Souter Lighthouse. Cant wait to give it a proper run out when i find some nice spots. :)

My 2015 cambag
- Nikon D7200 - Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G - Samyang 8mm f/3.5 Fisheye CSII AE - Sigma 10-20 f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM - Tamron SP 24-70 f/2.8 VC USD - Tamron SP 70-300 f/4-5.6 VC USD - Blackrapid RS7 - Sirui ET-2004 Aluminum Tripod with E-20 Ball Head - Haida ProII MC ND1000 82mm - Haida ProII MC ND64 77mm - Hoya pro1digital protector filters - JJC TM-M Multi-Function Timer Remote Control - Lenspen Outdoor Pro Kit - Second Battery / Headlamp / Cleaning kit - Pedco UltraPod II Mini Tripod - Lowepro Flipside 400AW www.facebook.com/greglebretonphotography