A question I get asked a lot is “why don’t my pictures look like that”? Being at the right place at the right time with the right light certainly helps but the simple answer for this photo is that it wasn’t as easy as the push of the shutter button.

Slow shutter speeds, high dynamic range (HDR) processing and a low angle perspective are what make this image. At ISO 200 I used a 4 stop neutral density filter on the front of  a Nikon 24-70mm lens to shoot a series of 6 different exposures.  The images were then combined resulting in an overlapping pattern of waves being created while optimizing the exposure of shadows in the rocks and the highlights in the sky and water.

In case you are wondering my feet got a little wet for this shot!!