Nice 'n' Breezy

Added 1452785231 by Forest Moon.

For some reason, not many on the beach the day it was shot (14 January 2016).

Awarded an FPI early in the morning of Easter Monday (28 March) 2016.

As I sit here, it's dark outside, and Storm Katie is howling outside. There's an occasional crash as roof tiles - I hope they are not mine - collide with the fence just outside my window. I'm awake now! I might as well use the time adding some technical notes, for the photographers. This is a fairly traditional shot that would have worked on slide film.

Kit: Tripod, wide angle lens (12mm; equivalent to 24mm in old money). ISO 200, f/11 and 25s exposure, assisted by a 10-stop 'big stopper' ND filter and a polarising filter. I exposed to the right, then processed the exposure as slightly underexposed, as if I were using a slide film. (I told you it was a traditional shot.) And a camera (OMD EM5 mk1).

Almost all the processing was in Lightroom. There was a small, white hut at the end of the row that had also caught the sunlight. It appeared as a tiny bright blob, so I patched that out in a layer in Photoshop. Otherwise, this is a straight shot, with nothing significant added or taken away.

The broken cloud was lighting up areas intermittently, and it was a lucky judgement call that lit the huts for this shot. The eight other exposures missed the lighting.