Us seascape photogrpahers are always scouting for a new location. Going up to the Central Coast a few weeks ago, I was finally introduced to beautiful Forresters Beach by my friend Brent.

He has done a whole study of Forresters Beach and thus was the perfect guide for me.

This shot was taken with my beloved Nikon D300 and a Sigma 10-20mm.
I wanted to achieve the effect of blurring the rushing water and freezing the wave smashing against the rock at the same time. I used a technique called shutter blending: Two separate photos on separate layers merged in photoshop via layer blending. Processing was done in Capture NX2 – my favorite raw processor.

- 2 exposures, one for the f/g one for the rock in the background (light painted with my head torch
- You can clearly see that my surefire torch was not really the right tool for the job. the middle-ground is not really covered by it. Something more powerful (like Brent’s torch) would have been perfect.

- This is a 2 shot vertorama.
- The bottom panel consists of 3 separate shots that have been layerblended together.
- The top panel is a single shot to capture the rapid cloud movement (4 min exposure).

If you want to know how I did this shot. It is easy: Just buy this book about Light Painting and you will boost your light painting skills to a whole new level. It is worth every cent especially if you want to find out, how to build the perfect torch for light painting!

We had a spectacular evening and went over to Terrigal afterwards for some specatacular light painting.

Here is a fun video to watch if you would like to learn more about the location (and see me wading through knee-deep water – waiting for something to happen )

Patience is a virtue – particularly for any landscape photographer. You can never have enough of it.

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