Gallery of Limited Edition Fine Art Photography by Stephen W. Oachs

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Roshan Prabhu - (February 14th, 2009 (7:45am) PST)
This is an amazing capture. I was curious though, because the colors are so vived, was this done as an HDR composite image or a single shot with time lapse and a polarizing filter? Was there any color correction or anything done in a Photoshop-like program or is this the actual original capture? I guess this question really applies to many of your beautiful captures, not just this one. Thanks!

Stephen Oachs - (February 14th, 2009 (7:49am) PST)
Roshan, thank you. To answer your questions, this is a long exposure as I wanted to capture the movement of the tide as it streaked back out across the shallow beach. That lends the "feel" to the sky and yes, I did use a gradient 3-stop ND filter to help control the light (in comparison to the foreground) in conjunction with a polarizer. This is a common setup for many of my landscape images.

Steve Davis - (April 14th, 2009 (2:12am) PDT)
Hey Stephen. I just got a Cokin Pro-Z filter holder and some Hi-tech ND Grads (.3, .6 & .9). I wonder how you deal with things popping up over the horizon line, like these rocks. Shouldn't the ND grad filter make the top part of the rock darker? How do you deal with that?