October 10, 2013 Pebbles and Rocks, Ecola State Park, Oregon, USA, and the 6-stop HiTech ProStop IRND Filter
Pebbles And Grass On The Beach
Ecola State Park, Oregon, USA
Canon EOS 1D X, 90 TS, 1/4 sec, f13, ISO 100
Image taken on October 9, 2013.
The sky wasn't very interesting yesterday morning on the beach at Ecola State Park so I turned my attention to the pebbles and erosion patterns on the beach. I used the CanonTS-E 90mm f2.8 lens so I could align the plane of focus along the beach without being constrained to looking straight down. I still had to use a fairly large f-stop to get enough depth of field to extend from the top to the bottom of the pebbles.
Rocks In Surf
Ecola State Park, Oregon, USA
Canon EOS 1D X, 24 TS II, 2-stop hard grad ND, 2-stop soft grad ND, 6-stop ND, 1.5 min, f9.5, ISO 100
Image taken on October 9, 2013.
I used my new HiTech 6-stop ProStop IRND resin filter to make this 1.5-minute exposure shortly after sunset. The long exposure turned the waves into a nice cottony surface. The filter has a gasket around the back to block unwanted light and it fits snugly in a standard 2mm slot of the Lee FiltersFoundation Kit. It imparts a slight magenta cast, but it's more neutral than the standard HiTech ND filters. It's nice to have a single solid ND filter between the extremely neutral Lee Filters 3-stop ProGlass ND filter and the extremely dark Lee Filters 10-stop Big Stopper ND filter.
