Sunset-1, by Peter Brehaut
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Guernsey, the second largest of the Channel Islands, is where today's featured photographer, Peter Brehaut, lives and took the picture featured here. Peter uses a Canon EOS-1D Mark II and if you look at his DPNow gallery you will see a very accomplished and wide repertoire of photography. The problem with writing up our POTD here every day is that I'm fast running out of superlatives! The sunset he has captured here is both spectacuar and dream-like.
Peter explains: "The photo was taken mid September this year and is part of a set that I had been doing for a club competition that will be coming up next week This photo was taken on the west coast of Guernsey in a spot that I had seen while on the look out for good spots to take sunset pictures from.
"This was the 2nd or 3rd time I had been to this spot as the first time I had got the tide times wrong and the second time there was no real sunset to speak of. This one I am sorry to say is not one of the three that will be going to club next week but it is very much like two of them that will. The settings I used and camera and lens are my Canon 1D MK2N a sigma 24-70mm and a set of cokin filters. The camera was set at ISO 100 and a one second exposure the lens at 24mm f18.
The filters were a ND 8 neutral grey, ND 4 neutral grey and a solid ND 8. These were needed to stop the sky from been blown out. The last thing I did was a small amount of adjustments in lightroom because I always shoot raw. Oh and yes I did get my feet wet more than once but I guess this is a small price to pay!"
You can see more of Peter's work in his DPNow gallery - and it's well worth a look.
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