It's Tuesday so back to Long Exposures from around town. This one was taken in January 2012 as I explored the shores along the neck and scampered over rocks and under piers. The structure above this one struck me and I decided to center it in the frame to emphasize the symmetry. A long exposure helped calm the already fairly still waters below. Hope you enjoy this one.
It's Tuesday and that can only mean another Long Exposure image to share with you today (well, that and a pretty important election...). Today's image comes from the day before Superstorm Sandy arrived. I had scouted out this small discharge pipe a while ago but realized I needed an astronomical high tide to realize the image I had visualized. For good or bad, Sandy delivered on that wish. As the tide peaked on October 28th, I made my way out to this area and found the water covering the length of the concrete covered pipe. More incredible than the water [...]
This Long Exposure Tuesday view comes from early September when a storm was churning off the coast and I headed out in search of big waves. Those failed to appear but I hit Preston at high tide and decided to shoot some long exposure images instead. This one at 25 seconds is relatively short but was enough to turn the incoming tide to a soft white cloud. My favorite parts of the image are the rocks at the end of this drainage pipe and the ones to the left where the mist seems to encircle them.
I remember when I took this photo in February that it had been prompted in large part by someone at the Reporter asking if I had any shots of Brown's (or Crowninshield) Island. I had to confess I didn't have any that featured the whole island and so I made it a point to head down to Harding Lane and find a good vantage point. I had chosen a day with good clouds and a nice wind and decided to shoot this as a long exposure. The fading light made exposures quite difficult and I managed a single good image [...]
I told you that 'long exposure Tuesday' was back ; ) With the waves that came from an offshore storm in early September, I decided to head to Preston beach and see what I could do with the action at high tide. As the waves weren't crashing as expected, I decided to change my approach and shoot long exposure images instead. For this one, I found a chair (as well as socks, shoes and pants) facing the ocean and decided to use that as the focal point. This is a relatively short 'long exposure' at only 15 seconds but it [...]
Continuing with the newly resurrected long exposure theme, here are the stairs leading down from the sea wall I showed in yesterday's post. Prior to taking that photo of the overlook, I played with long exposures and the waves that slammed against the sea wall. By extending this exposure time to 20 seconds, I was able to turn the crashing waves into a mist and make it appear that the stairs were descending to clouds or some other-worldly substance below.
As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I had set out on Saturday hoping to use the fast moving clouds for a long exposure image. It has been a while since I had pulled out the 10-stop filter and played with exposures measured in minutes. As the light faded, I found myself near the edge of the lot and trying to capture the lighthouse with clouds behind and the crashing waves transformed to mist below. In this two minute exposure, you can make out the streaks of clouds in the sky. Even more amazing is the swirls of white in the [...]
Time to return to Castle Rock for yet another temporary waterfall. If you missed the earlier waterfall shots, click here. This and the rest of the images of crashing waves were taken in mid June during a particularly high tide and with surprisingly large waves that came to shore. I made my way to a ledge under the main outcropping at Castle Rock and used my longest lens to zoom in on the waves as they washed over rocks. By slowing the shutter speed, I was able to capture these temporary waterfalls. Black and white helps isolate texture in the [...]
Two and a half minutes - that's how long this image took to produce. I had set out at the end of May to photograph Preston beach at sunset. The clouds and sunset didn't offer much so I decided to simplify the scene by composing it for a long exposure black and white image. The rocks in the foreground balance out the houses beyond. The long exposure turned the ocean into a mirror to reflect the light in the sky.
On this Long Exposure Tuesday, the quest for waterfalls in Marblehead continues. Shortly after taking last week's image at the beach at Castle Rock, I climbed up to the top of the rock and surveyed the crashing waves below. The tide was high and the sea produces some great waves which kept covering an outcropping of land. I made my way down and focused on the farthest end of the land. My hope was that a perfectly timed shot would catch a wave rolling over the rock and, when slowed, show a mini waterfall as the water below receded. Needless [...]