Something of a cliché these days, but the use of long shutter speeds to blur water and clouds for pictorial effect is almost as widespread as the tobacco graduated filter of the 1980s. Having said that, at least the former retains some realism in the colours, unlike those ridiculous, brown-skied Kodachrome slides that some photographers have (you know who you are), tucked away in drawers, never to see the light of day again.
But in this case I do it just for the sake of shooting something while the autumn light I crave remains absent. There's a brisk breeze blowing today, and I choose the time of high tide to shoot to get maximum effect with the rolling waves.
12-24mm f/4 AF-S Nikkor. 30 seconds at f/10. x10 ND filter and 0.6 Lee ND grad. Tripod and remote release. ISO 50.
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