Sauvage Seagull
The west coast of the quiberon peninsula in south Brittany. And a seagull.
The west coast of the quiberon peninsula in south Brittany. And a seagull.
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SONY DSC-RX100M4
Aperture f/5.6 ISO 125 Shutter 1/100 Focal Length 880/100 
Quiberon, Bretagne, FR
Nov, 2018Views
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Location
The Côte Sauvage is the Atlantic side of the Quiberon Peninsula on the southern coast of Brittany. The shore is open to the full fury of the Atlantic Ocean with its giant wind-whipped waves that continuously sculpt the ancient granite. My wife, dog and I lived there for 11 months before moving to Tuscany.Time
The end of the Atlantic hurricane season and the start of the time of winter storms produces the strong surf that this area is known for. This set of pictures was taken in the afternoon on a particularly warm day that produced the typical onshore coastal breezes that, in turn produce the cloud banks that can be seen just above the horizon of the photo.Lighting
Brittany, being coastal, tends to have mostly cloudy skies in winter. This particular day was no exception. However the clouds were broken with occasional sun breaking the gloom. The picture was taken when the sun was behind thin clouds that diffused the light. The clouds themselves added to the drama of the sky which I wanted to reflect the drama of the sea.Equipment
The photo you are looking at is a composite of roughly 24 hand held shots taken with my Sony RX100 m4. The photos were taken as three sets of horizontal panoramas, the fist taken on the horizon with the other two sets taken below and above the horizon. The image in the photo covers about 120 degrees horizontally and vertically. This coverage could have been obtained using a super wide lens in one shot, but I did not want the stretching of the foreground and the loss of detail in the distance that you get with a wide angle lens. Using the camera set to approximately 50 mm produces a more natural scale akin to you standing there with your own eyes scanning the scene rather than the seen compressed and stretched at the same time as would appear in a wide angle shot.Inspiration
Being on the Côte Sauvage (wild coast) is inspiration enough.Editing
I did lots of post processing. All the images taken had to be merged into one shot. The huge resulting file, probably in the 200 megapixel range, had to be reduced to make it workable. Besides that, errors where lines did not quite meet had to be manually corrected in Photoshop. Additionally, luminosity masks were applied for aesthetic reasons. HDR was not applied to this picture with the HDR-like effects being due to the Luminosity masks and the tweaking of highlights and shadows in Lightroom.In my camera bag
I normally keep my camera in my pocket.Feedback
Find a wide landscape you want to capture and try taking a series of overlapping photos to cover the entire seen, including the entire sky and the foreground. It is important to have features in the sky like distinct clouds or the software will have trouble stitching the scene together. Just remember that no matter how spectacular the scene is, if there isn't something interesting in the foreground the rest of the scene is just background.
