La Pointe de Séhar - Locquémeau

[Helen Summers]

I have been trying for a good while to get a photo of this place. It is a challenge though, because of the chaotic nature of the beach, which falls away steeply from left to right and all the rocks and boulders seem to be not quite in the right spot. Anyway enough of excuses, here is the latest effort. Photographed yesterday looking West and virtually into the light. For those who like to know this stuff, Nikon D850 with 28 to 300mm zoom at 28mm. ISO 400, 1:600sec at f/10

 

[Glenn]

Good job.

 

[Helen Summers]

Thaks Glenn. Egg all over my face. It is the Pointe de Séhar not the Pointe du Douvren which is a little North of here.

 

[Glenn]

No worries.

 

[John2]

This works for me Helen. Nice comp. My only thought is that the FG blacks might be a tad heavy.

 

[Toby Webster]

I agree with John, I suspect this is to do with the rather hard light.

 

[Helen Summers]

Thanks for your interest guys. I know what you mean about the blacks. The rocks are actually a very drk grey and when damp verge on black. I did try lifting them, but then they just didn't look right. The image started to look one of those horrid artificially over processed HDR images.

 

[John2]

Helen, won't a small adjustment of the "Output" slider in Levels do it? It's tonally narrower than other adjustments.

 

[Steve]

I like the photo.
I think although the dynamic range of the D850 is excellent it peaks at 64 ISO (apparently about 14.5 stops). If it had been shot at 64 ISO you would have about 1.5 stops of extra dynamic range to play with - as you were at 28mm you could have shot at about 1/100 second without fear of camera shake and may be in a better place to reveal the shadows. Also DXO does seem to make some images overly sharp and can increase the contrast - when I use it I sometimes use older settings to tame it a bit......

 

[Helen Summers]

Thanks for your thoughts and input Jonh 2 and Steve. I would just say that the is absolutely no lack of range in this image. The histogram is filled perfectly. There is no lack of detail in the shadows and I attached a crop of the darkest shadow area to illustrate this. The issue as always seems to be with the transfer of the image to the forum, which with my images at least, seem to increase the sharpening and the contrast.

Anyway, once again thanks for commenting.

 

[John2]

I must admit that I have experienced the same problem on occasion Helen.