With a very clear night along the Oregon Coast, we went to work just south of Seal Rock – where there’s lots of great rock formations and pools of water that sit around them when the tide retreats. Low tide on the beaches here is great – even without a minus tide, you have so much to work with. I am always struck by the difference between the sun setting and the post sunset glow – and much prefer the post-sunset colors and mood. See a photo example below.
(c) Brenda Tharp
I used a 3-stop hard graduated filter from Singh-Ray for this image to balance the sky against the land. I didn’t want detail in the rocks, in this case – at least not very much – as it was supposed to be a silhouetted scene. But the grad filter allowed me to pull up the details in the dark sand around the rock and the edges of the water. Processed using Lightroom and Nik Viveza.
This is a quick process of just one image – working off my laptop in the shade of a Douglas Fir in a park near Florence doesn’t allow for accurate processing – but it’s what we have available as we’re camping in a place without cell service!! Hope it looks as nice as it does on the laptop…
Note: Brenda Tharp is a top nature and travel photographer who teaches for BetterPhoto's photography online school and special certification for photography program.
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