Venice Beach, CA
Another black and white photo of the water from my recent drive down to Venice, California.
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The pier at Venice Beach allows you to walk safely out to the point where the waves break.
I drove down to Santa Monica to meet some friends and we decided to head over to Venice Beach and walk around a bit.
One of the nice things about this beach is the Pier that extends out into the break of the waves. There may be others, but this is the only one I’ve seen so far where the pier extends out this far. This allowed me to get this perspective that I would not have been able to get otherwise.
The conversion to black and white was done entirely in Photoshop Lightroom 5 with the aid of Kubota the Blacksmith preset available from Kubota Image Tools.
Malibu 309
El Matador Beach. Malibu, CA
Ventura Pier 346
Ventura Pier
I ran down to Ventura after work to photograph the Ventura Pier before sunset. The light was very nice this evening and I took the opportunity to continue practicing shooting long exposures using my Lee Filter Big Stopper 10-stop ND filter.
I thought this one looked best in black and white (processed with Google/Nik Software’s Silver Efex Pro 2) but I have another version that is color that I’ll post soon.
Nathan
Nathan. © Mike Wong
Devyn [b&w]
Devyn. Taken with the Sony RX-1. © Mike Wong