Rocks and Fog, Point Lobos. Point Lobos State Reserve, California. July 21, 2011. © Copyright 2011 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
A rocky peninsula drops into the ocean on a foggy morning at Point Lobos State Reserve.
On this morning it was foggy and drizzling at Point Lobos and there was a surprising amount of surf for a summer morning. When I arrived shortly after the park opened, there were few other people about. With the moving water and the low light conditions, I decided that this was a good time to do some work with long daytime exposures, so I got out my 9-stop neutral density filters and went about looking for compositions.
After shooting down closer to the water in the cove to the left of these rocks, I wandered up a trail along the shoreline that took me to a point that was a bit higher above the water. As I looked back I saw that the rocks that defined the cove that I had been shooting appeared to head straight out into the water towards a distant peninsula and then submerge – a rather different take on this feature.
By using this filter I was able to get an eight-second exposure in this light. Longer would have been better, but the light was beginning to come through the fog a bit and I didn’t have much choice. With an exposure this “short” I had to be a bit careful about timing the shots, trying to get the right amount of water breaking over the rocks.
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Thanks, Richard. There rocks are interesting – from one angle they just look like an offshore row that is parallel to the shore, but from this angle they seem to extend into the water and submerge.
Dan
I love these “long” daytime exposures. As I have no filters, I usually go for the more generic sunset and sunrise “long” exposures with generally the same effect. I like how you captured and explaind the rocks submerging into the surf, reminds me of the back of a dinosaur.