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"The Sage of Shadowdale"
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Favourites: 880; Deviations: 57; Watchers: 121
Watching: 72; Pageviews: 14528; Comments Made: 547; Friends: 72
# Comments
Comments: 168
You're welcome. Although, it's been about a week since I was last on dA, from memory, so I've forgotten what you're saying thank you for. But if it's for adding you to my 
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that's what it's for! (you won't remember what this is about now I expect!!)
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hello,
thanks a lot for 
cheers, dave
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Keep producing awesome shots and I'll keep fav'ing them.
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You're welcome. What can I say? I
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Thanks for the recent attention on my work mate, I appreciate it
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Man, I'm looking at your work and I'm wondering how in hell I have more pageviews than you do.
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From what I see, its a much deserved nomination. Your work is stunning.
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LOL. Thanks. I found it, and another similar avatar, on the web years ago (don't remember where now) back when I played a bit of chess on gameknot.com (I just don't have the time to play these days).
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you have some impressive images in your gallery Mike
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you're very welcome
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wow, i love all your photos.
their inspiring.
i have taken seascapes before and they are my favorite thing to photograph.
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Thanks. I think seascapes are my favourite subject too - there's something about experiencing the scene rather than just pressing the shutter release. It's relaxing and humbling.
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I keep tropic-strength insect repellent & 30+ sunscreen, among other things, in my camera bag. But I understand where you're coming from - seemingly little things can so often throw you off & ruin the serenity.
And I've heard about the film stuff - they used to use it back in the "olden days" didn't they? 
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Thanks - it certainly did increase my page view count for a couple days. Instead of the usual 10-20 comments & activities I logged on to see about 5000 views, 1000 activities, and about 150 comments to read & get through.
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That must have been painful
But i think that it was good, your pictures really deserve for more attention!
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amazing gallery!!! congrats on the DD!! i have to watch you
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Wow 
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Thanks. Australia is indeed a beautiful country (and big too - I tend to shoot just a tiny corner of it).
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Hello, thank you for all the
I appreciate it
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The pictures with the sun in the background are those sun rises? I'm curious about which direction it is facing because the colors are amazing! And very nice with the rocks and cliffs leading out into the endless open sea!
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The vast majority of the twilight or very low-angled light shots I do are sunrise. I'm much more of a dawn person than a dusk person. I have one shot on dA which is sunset and one which was shot early afternoon , but the rest of them are sunrise or in the hour or so prior to sunrise.
I live on the east coast of Australia and so almost all my seascapes are shot looking east over the Pacific Ocean (with a couple looking north or south along the coast line). It really is a very beautiful part of the world.
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Ahh! The light is really different depending if its dawn or dusk. My coast is facing west you see. But also the colors varies a lot from the time of year doesn't it? And your geographical location
Indeed it is very beautiful! Your pictures are truly inspiring!
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Thanks.
As you say, there are so many different factors that influence the quality of the light. I tend to find the location makes more of a difference than the season, other things being equal, and a particular location may usually yield a certain type of light at dawn that is quite different to some other place you shoot 20kms further along the coast. At least that's what I find - must be something environmental about the local area that usually produces certain cloud types or temperatures or humidity or air quality, etc.
The season tends to make less of a difference, in my experience, than the location itself. The biggest difference is what time in the middle of the night you need to get out of bed in order to be set up to shoot at nautical twilight (one of the minor downsides to shooting at dawn in summer).
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That's very interesting
The bad thing might be getting up early in summer, but in winter both dawn and dusk happens while I'm at work
Have a nice weekend!
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The light changes very quickly during sunrise & sunset here too. But I meant, other things being equal, shooting in winter at one spot will yield more similar result to that same spot in summer than shooting at different coastal locations during the same season. That's my experience anyway.
I often use a Cokin GND8 (3 stop soft) filter and sometimes a CP (cheapy brand). I'm not that happy with my filters (I have a couple other ND filters - a 1 stop & a 2 stop) but they produce such an awful pink colour cast that I just don't use them. If I want to reduce the amount of light coming through the lens (other than playing with the aperture and shutter speed of course) I put the CP on which accounts for about 1.5 stops I think (but the downside is it reduces reflections and sometimes that's what you're going for). Many times I can't get what I want in-camera and so I'll bracket the exposures and then blend the images in Photoshop to simulate/fake a decent, true neutral, GND filter; and that way I can selectively darken/lighten areas that I couldn't in-camera even with good filters.
Ideally I'd like to can the lot (even my Cokin GND8 is not great, but better than my other cheap filters) and invest in some Singh-Ray filters. But they don't come cheap and I just can't afford it at the moment (not with kids & mortgages & bills & inflation, etc., etc.). So I'll be making do with what I have for the foreseeable future. When some long lost rich benefactor leaves me my millions then I'll get my Singh-Rays & my good Manfrotto legs & heads & my D3 (or D700) and my beautiful Nikkor lenses (first on the list would be the 14-24/2.8 - drool...). A shame I can't buy skill & creativity.
Anyway, enough dreaming.
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I see! I just learned a great deal!!
I am bothered with that the sky sometimes gets too bright and the ground becomes too dark. I have tried everything in photoshop to balance the light, but no good. My goal is to do as little as possible in photoshop with my pictures. So I'll have to try a graduated ND filter
Yea... I want another D3 so I won't have to switch lenses... (Joking). You could sell a kid or two though... (Joking again)! I sold my GF,,,
Creativity comes for free! So should girls.
And we should all be doctors so we could afford all the camera equipment we want
Thank you for sharing your wisdom!!
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