Month: <span>October 2010</span>

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Some time ago I took quite a lot of shots of traffic crossing the Marine Way Bridge in Southport. I had the camera on a tripod, for obvious reasons. I was trying to capture the perfect set of light trails. What didn’t occur to me at the time was to combine several of the shots in order to get more trails in a single image. Anyway, now I’ve done it: three images with identical exposures merged in Photomatix then processed using Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop and the Topaz Detail plugin for added crispiness!

Southport Marine Way Bridge at Night

For more photos please take a look at my Dune Prints web site, or my Flickr photostream.

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big shadows from southport pier
big shadows from southport pier

I knew that high tide was to be around lunch time and I could see that there were no clouds, so the sky would be featureless, so I used a couple of ND filters to lengthen the exposure and smooth out the sea. The big shadows from the pier add drama to the image…

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