burnt embers

After shooting the sun setting beyond a tide-pool as shown in yesterday’s post I was thrilled to find these slabs of rock with such beautiful reflecting light. This is a bit east along the beach and these slabs are like giant slices of bread cut from the vertical face to the right.

They come from a very large boulder, probably a glacial erratic, and are a very different stone than the granitic ones that I often show on this blog. This one obviously has some kind of  flat fracture planes which suggest it might a metamorphosed sedimentary rock.

The pictures on which this are based are hand-held, and the focus point probably not perfect. In any case, the result of these factors is that the edge of the rock is out of focus with an edge around it that one could attribute to camera motion, except it is on all the merged images and is something to do with the focus – HDR emphasizes this effect and makes it look as if the images are not properly registered, which in fact they are. I took this picture with black and white in mind and will be doing some further processing when I have the energy. Once again WP has subtracted quite a lot from my processing. I continue to wonder if the images I produce are pushed too hard in some areas of black or mid tones and that this processing is not conducive to accurate uploading. Another thing to experiment with sometime.

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Canon EOS 5D MkII, Nikkor-N Auto 24mm, f2.8 lens at ISO100, f 2.8, 1/100th +/- 2.0 E.V.