Tag: Beach Photos

  • Sunset at Tanah Lot

    Sunset at Tanah Lot

    This view is from behind Tanah Lot, looking out into the ocean as the sun begins its descent. We were sitting at a restaurant eating a quick dinner/snack and having some drinks while I took this photo. I was literally at our dinner table when I took this. Pretty cool view, huh? To process this…

  • Tanah Lot The Sea Temple

    Tanah Lot The Sea Temple

    Tanah Lot is one of the Seven Seas Temples located around Bali. It is a popular tourist spot in Bali, Indonesia. Here’s a fun fact: In 1980, Japan donated approximately 180 million to repair the temple’s rock face and other significant locations around Bali. One-third of this temple is made up of artificial rock.

  • Low Tide at Miyajima Japan

    Low Tide at Miyajima Japan

    I like shooting HDR. It allows you to pull so much more color and shadows out of a scene. I shoot HDR in a lot of my photos, but I try to avoid that ‘HDR Look’ since that’s not really my thing. I do encourage people to shoot HDR, though, so they can get deep…

  • Rocky Bali Reef Break

    Rocky Bali Reef Break

    The beautiful rocky reefs of Bali make for some really interesting and picture-perfect beach landscapes. In my last few photos, I’ve been playing around more with some retro light leak looks in Photoshop. It seems to add a new life to some of my old photos I never bothered processing because they didn’t have that…

  • Batu Bolong Bali – Canon 5DmkII

    Batu Bolong Bali – Canon 5DmkII

    Shot from Bali of Batu Bolong taken with the Canon 5DmkII.

  • Sunset at Solana Beach

    Sunset at Solana Beach

    When I lived in San Diego, this was one of the main beaches where I would surf. Every year, San Diego seems increasingly crowded, and more cities are trying to do the L.A. thing by putting a parking meter next to any place that could fit a car. This is one of the last beaches…

  • Another Beautiful Sunset at Victoria Beach – Laguna Beach

    Another Beautiful Sunset at Victoria Beach – Laguna Beach

    This sunset photo is from Victoria Beach. Sunsets and beach photos work well with a 2.35 crop like this. It really seems to feature the horizon well. This is an HDR beach photo. There really isn’t a way to shoot a picture like this without multiple exposures unless you use an ND gradient filter. I…

  • Santa Barbara Orange Reflection

    Santa Barbara Orange Reflection

    The other night, I was in Santa Barbara taking photos around the Pier. I’m slowly collecting all the piers of Southern California. While walking down to get a nice wide shot of the pier, I looked across this dirty little inlet lagoon thing that smelled really bad and saw all these trees and this little…

  • Redondo Beach Pier

    Redondo Beach Pier

    The different beach cities all along the coast of California all seem to have their own little vibe. And Redondo Beach is no different. For this shot, a thick marine layer blocked most of the sun. A few minutes after this, the light from the sun was pretty much gone, even though the sun was…

  • Two Seagulls in a sea of Mussels

    Two Seagulls in a sea of Mussels

    This is an HDR photo of two seagulls relaxing in a sea of mussels during sunset. It was a very low tie, so the mussels were all exposed. I’m sure the seagulls were looking for an easy meal with all the other animals that were exposed. I’m on a 16mm shot in this photo, and…