Originally I called this “Below Mugu Rock,” but keep thinking about the line of green vegetation in the middle of just rock, scree, and bare land. In a dry land, plants mean even more than you can imagine if you live in a land lush with leaves and plants and trees.
Nothing like crashing waves – and this was a small one – following a big storm.
Although I have lived along the California coast most of my life, I don’t really get out to see it often. Â I am not sure why. Â However, my friend, The Nikon Hit Man, knows the coast well – he has been fishing it for many years. Â We decided to do a photoshoot, but the fact is, it really was more of a time to just hang out together and chat about photography.
Overall, the day was a bust for pictures as the sun was not with us – getting to the beach in the later morning is not conducive to the best photographic light. Â This is when the miracle – or curse – of post-processing comes in. Â These were taken around Mugu Rock, which sits on the coastline along the Pacific Coast Highway, north of Malibu, south of Oxnard. Â If you have been in the area, you cannot miss it. Â The best part of all were the big waves, remnants of a hurricane somewhere in the Pacific.
Drab pictures can be made more interesting, naturally, or pushed to extremes for drama and (artistic?) impact.
I’ll leave you to choose . . .
I wanted an old photographic quality here – Kodachrome in Alien Skin proved to be good. A few more mods afterward. I like the glow in the windows at the top – it was pretty hard to balance the steps and the lights when shooting in low light – this is iso 6400, f3.2, 1/125. Â The light is rather – really quite very – noisy – but the steps turned out ok. Â I suppose I could have done more to get rid of the noise but . . . .
Handheld HDR using the Vivitar Series 1 lens, 135mm, f2.3.
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