Uploads from Armand Dijcks, tagged rocks

Sunset on the Rocks

nobody@flickr.com (Armand Dijcks) — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 07:29:33 -0700

I thought I'd post something a little different from my recent monochrome architectural images. This seascape was shot in De Kelders, South Africa. I combined 3 exposures, one for the sunset, one for the rocks and one for the stars. In a way, I find working in color more challenging than black & white, since you have to balance the different colors and saturation in addition to the light/dark contrast. Hopefully I've done a halfway decent job here. Since I like a good challenge, I might do more some more color in the near future :-)

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Seeing the Light

nobody@flickr.com (Armand Dijcks) — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 07:29:34 -0700

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After the previous color shot it's back to black & white for now, but there's a reason for that. The rocks that form the background for this image have an interesting pattern of orange spots on them. At least I thought it might be interesting at the time I shot this. But in retrospect those spots turned out to be just a little too busy and distracting, so I decided to go for monochrome.

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Running on the rocks

nobody@flickr.com (Armand Dijcks) — Sat, 14 May 2011 06:19:42 -0700

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Shot in Gansbaai, south africa. This particular area is great for photography with its variety of rocks, sea and the local fynbos vegetation.

Strobist info: one SB900 camera left (mounted on a gorillapod sitting on the rocks).

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On the rocks

nobody@flickr.com (Armand Dijcks) — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:00:48 -0800

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Strobist info: bare SB900 camera right

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On the rocks

nobody@flickr.com (Armand Dijcks) — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 08:59:58 -0800

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Strobist info: bare SB900 camera left (the flare at the extreme left of the image is actually the flash, not the setting sun)

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Walker Bay photoshoot

nobody@flickr.com (Armand Dijcks) — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 08:40:00 -0800

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Walker Bay photoshoot

nobody@flickr.com (Armand Dijcks) — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 08:39:00 -0800

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On the rocks

nobody@flickr.com (Armand Dijcks) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:27:38 -0800

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I took this photo a while ago but have been experimenting with it again lately because I wanted to achieve a certain look. What I was going for is a soft, almost painting-like background, and a more contrasty, slightly oversharpened subject and foreground. I’ve seen those two style applied separately, but I thought that by combining them I could really make the subject jump out and at the same time create a somewhat surreal effect.

When I took the shot I purposely placed the flash visibly within the frame. One reason was that when shooting with a fisheye lens you have such a wide field of view that it’s almost impossible to place a flash outside the frame and still cast any significant amount of light on your subject. But it also makes the whole scene look a bit less serious.

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Piece of rope stuck in the rocks

nobody@flickr.com (Armand Dijcks) — Wed, 28 May 2008 05:54:54 -0700

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Taken at Bushmans Kloof Wilderness Reserve, South Africa