Sunset Rock

The setting sun off the northern California coast is a work of art! Took my breath away. ___________ Here's some fun trivia about this shot. It was a spur of the moment capture. I was at a beach party and had just my Canon 60D with my 24-70L. I saw that the sunset was going to be amazing and so I scampered on down the shoreline to some cliffs. I climbed up and down and around until I found an excellent cove that was sufficiently hidden from the rest of the world. I didn't have a tripod so I just set my camera to burst mode, turned on bracketing, and worked really hard on holding my breathe! This final image is 3 shots at -2, 0, +2. Doing this hand held proved difficult indeed. I have a lot of sets that won't see the light of day to prove it! I used HDR Efex Pro to do the merge and tweaking - then Photoshop for some contrast adjustments and what not. I had fun taking and editing this and I'm glad you enjoy it! Thanks again for thinking my work is cool beans!

Beautiful

wow, unreal

brilliant shot, love the stop of the waves

Awesome work

Wow, this is great!

Outstanding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stunning. Love the complimentary colors!

nice work

Captivating! Great work!

wow! great shot!!

Great Capture

damn. that's just a quality picture. props.

Thank you everyone :)

Thats cool!

Great shot! Beautiful colours!

Beautiful work...congrats on the win!

Congrats... Amazing photo!

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Just Beautiful.... Congratulations!

Great picture and edit Congrats

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congrats on win!

perfect !!!

Insanely good! Favourited :)

natures story told by you, great shot

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Fantastic shot ,,congrats (voted)

Congrats...

fantastic!!!

Wow, awesome shot! Congratulations!!

Congrats! Outstanding Capture, great vivid color, contrast, composition,
detail, clarity, creativity, HDR edit, well done! Awarded for Absolute Masterpiece and favorite!

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Congrats!! Beautiful work :D

Gorgeous. Congrats...

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Oh so beautiful! Definitely breathtaking!!!!

Nicely processed. Wonderful photographic opportunity.

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Outstanding Shot

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AMAZING SHOT

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Very Nice.

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thankyou

Pretty!

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Superb image

outstanding shot,beautiful

Very nicely done! Congratulations!

this is well deserved!!!!

Fantastic work...congrats!

It has depth, movement, colour plus I think I can hear the roar of the wave's.........Magic....wish I had taken it.

Wave roaring is one of the best things ever, yeah?! Love the ocean! Thanks for the compliment :)

never thought to do a hdr photo to an object in movement, how the hell you can take (at least) 3 frames if each frame don´t are equal to match diferent exposures?

or we can make hdr photos just playing with the camera raw with diferent exposures?

Whoa! Hey everyone!!! Thanks so much for all the comments! I came back from vacation to find my inbox full of happy news!!!! I'm so honored to win! I thought this contest had MANY excellent entries. I am humbled!

Here's some fun trivia about this shot. It was a spur of the moment capture. I was at a beach party and had just my Canon 60D with my 24-70L. I saw that the sunset was going to be amazing and so I scampered on down the shoreline to some cliffs. I climbed up and down and around until I found an excellent cove that was sufficiently hidden from the rest of the world. I didn't have a tripod so I just set my camera to burst mode, turned on bracketing, and worked really hard on holding my breathe! This final image is 3 shots at -2, 0, +2. Doing this hand held proved difficult indeed. I have a lot of sets that won't see the light of day to prove it! I used HDR Efex Pro to do the merge and tweaking - then Photoshop for some contrast adjustments and what not.

I had fun taking and editing this and I'm glad you enjoy it! Thanks again for thinking my work is cool beans!

Fantastic! Congrats :-)

Great work!v

So masterful! Exquisite! Magnifico! Bravo! A Masterpiece!

Nice. Congratulations!

Now THIS is how you use HDR like a boss.

Awesome! I really love this one.

Amazing!!!!

nice, congrats!

great shot

great shot, congrats :D

Fantastic photo, wonderful mood, made it a Favorite! I hope you also stop by and take a look at my own work, plz Vote if you like them. Truly Your's Shaun.

Very nice shot! great work!

Fabulous!

I dont even know what to say about this picture! it is insanely amazing!! great job!! come check some of my work out? just starting also trying to get the word out about my pics.

very stunning shot

Only problem is, we NEED MORE!!!!!

Haha! Thanks for the compliment, @Tenzgyalts! I've just been so busy with my video work that photography has had to take a back seat! It's sad for sure!

Excellent.