Chocolate Slice and Chocolate Shells

[Octane (Humayun)]

Coastline slab and a compilation of boulders captured illuminated by diffuse glow after sunset.

Not my best image, by far, but, I thought I'd share, anyway.

Made off Sydney's coastline.

Slightly higher resolution available here.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
30s f/11.0 at 40.0mm iso800

Comments, critique, etc., most welcome.

H

[bloodhound31]

It DOES look like a dessert doesn't it? The cream off in the distance needs to be a little closer to make it tasty...

I like it mate.

Baz.

[Vanda (Ian)]

If the centre stones were moved more off-centre an increase in interest is created. A nice composition and I love the colours.

[Octane (Humayun)]

Barry and Ian,

Cheers, guys.

Agree totally, Ian. Next time!

H

[Jen]

MMMM.... Yep i would eat it
Nice one H

[GeoffW1 (Geoff)]

I did! Well, in a manner of speaking. Rushed to the fridge and grabbed the Old Gold Almond

Cheers

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Originally Posted by Jen

MMMM.... Yep i would eat it
Nice one H

You're a tease Humayan!!! Luring us in under false pretences.

[Jen]

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

You're a tease Humayan!!! Luring us in under false pretences.

[leon]

That would right JEN.

Leon

[hotspur (Chris)]

Great work Humayan.

I like the softness,i have seen some photos by StephenM in rainforests of creeks,he used a ND 8 filter to get lovely colour of water.

Would like to get one of those filters one day.

Just wondering how much after sunset this photo was taken,and if you had to do a 'dark frame subtract',I note you used iso 800,I renember once Humayan you mention you prefer to try not to go over 400 iso,I take it,it was quite some time after sunset for you to go to iso 800.

I imagine the 5D mk II is vastly better in noise reduction than many other cameras,Would be interested to here,As I would like to do some late arvo-early morning water shots.

Thanks for sharing,C

[Octane (Humayun)]

Jen,

Thanks. : )

Originally Posted by Jen

MMMM.... Yep i would eat it
Nice one H

Geoff,

Haha! om nom nom. Cheers.

Originally Posted by GeoffW1

I did! Well, in a manner of speaking. Rushed to the fridge and grabbed the Old Gold Almond

Cheers

Jeanette,

I'm so sorry... not! : P

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

You're a tease Humayan!!! Luring us in under false pretences.

Chris,

From memory, this was about 30-minutes after sunset. It was getting quite dark. I will look it up and let you know when I get home.

And, you're absolutely right, I had in camera noise reduction enabled. I have found that it makes an enormous difference. I can imagine it'd be a bit of a pain if you were shooting in really dark conditions, and having to wait 1-2 minutes for your dark frame to complete, but, it can make the difference between a splodgy noise-ridden image and a clean one with little (if any) noise to deal with.

As for the ISO stuff, the ISO-400 was my limit for astrophotography. But, on the newer cameras, such as your 50D, you can really push it another stop or two. So, ISO-800 (with noise reduction) can work really quite well for landscapes. Even astro. Give it a go.

Originally Posted by hotspur

Great work Humayan.

I like the softness,i have seen some photos by StephenM in rainforests of creeks,he used a ND 8 filter to get lovely colour of water.

Would like to get one of those filters one day.

Just wondering how much after sunset this photo was taken,and if you had to do a 'dark frame subtract',I note you used iso 800,I renember once Humayan you mention you prefer to try not to go over 400 iso,I take it,it was quite some time after sunset for you to go to iso 800.

I imagine the 5D mk II is vastly better in noise reduction than many other cameras,Would be interested to here,As I would like to do some late arvo-early morning water shots.

Thanks for sharing,C

Thanks, everyone.

H

[hotspur (Chris)]

Thanks for that information,Humayan,your advice is of great help.And will help me to try and put together some photos that I want to take at the beach at a similar time frame.

I notice the 50d has more increments of ISO its got 320 and 640,the 450d has 200-400-800,so they will be useful.

cheers Chris

[Octane (Humayun)]

Chris,

No problem!

I think you'll find the 450D also has the 1/3rd- or 1/2-stop increments in ISO -- you just need to enable it as a custom function.

H

Originally Posted by hotspur

Thanks for that information,Humayan,your advice is of great help.And will help me to try and put together some photos that I want to take at the beach at a similar time frame.

I notice the 50d has more increments of ISO its got 320 and 640,the 450d has 200-400-800,so they will be useful.

cheers Chris

[hotspur (Chris)]

Thanks Humayan,I never knew that, re-iso increments 1/3 and 1/2 on the 450D,I will have a good read of my green manual.

What about the speeds,are they changeable too.We had a chap visit here,and he had the 7D,I had a play with it for half an hour,and I noticed when I wanted 1600,I dialled through speeds the closest I got was 1500,

May be it has custom speeds in its menu,I did'nt want to play around in menus too much as it was'nt my camera.

Cheers Chris

[Octane (Humayun)]

Chris,

That's strange. It should have gone to 1/1600.

As far as I know, there's no custom function settings for shutter speeds. They should all just be available to you without having to enable anything special.

H

[hotspur (Chris)]

Yes, I know,it seemed odd,I did check and it did say 1500

I wanted to have a closer look at the camera the next time the fellow came up to visit,but he has since sold the 7D and bought advik astro camera.

[Octane (Humayun)]

Chris,

I checked the time for you also.

This was shot exactly 22 minutes after the sun had set on that evening.

Cheers.

H

[Octane (Humayun)]

Chris,

Furthermore, I tell fibs -- you can actually enable/disable shutter speed increments as a custom function. At least I can on mine. It's always been enabled so I never even thought about it.

Cheers.

H

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

Very noice H
I love the way you clever guys get the water to look that hauntingly misty way. How do you do that? How long do you leave the shutter open?
Doug

EDIT - checked out the higher res version which has the image details.

[Octane (Humayun)]

Hi Doug,

The image details were also in the post here, too. : P

Anything over 2 seconds typically will yield silky water.

H