Devil's Slide and Half Moon Bay 2019

This was a great road trip Donna and I took at an exciting time of year as far the sea is concerned. It was winter, so the sea was very active. Some of the crashing waves reached 100 feet or more in the air after piling up against the rocky shoreline. I was thrilled, so much so that I didn't check my camera settings. The day itself was a constant lighting contest between the sun, the clouds, and the fog. The sun generally provided a bit of an orange glow as it fought its way through the mist. I was, and still am, enchanted by the fog that blows off the top of the waves. A lesson for the day: The discerning eye will notice a graininess to these images, some more than others. That's actually "High ISO Noise." Explanation: the shoot before this one was at night, and I had to have the ISO high to get the proper exposure for my night shots. This is okay for night shots, you expect to see some noise then, and you can filter most of it out within the camera and post-processing. I usually have my ISO set as low as possible during daylight hours to capture as much detail as possible. With high ISO in the daytime, you get the result these images show - graininess, the shots look pixelated. This would occur with any setting above, say 400 during daylight hours. At 3200, my photos were doomed. I completely forgot to check that setting, and it does not get checked or changed when using a shooting menu as I do. You must check and set this parameter manually. I didn't, and I didn't realize it until I got home and started to process the images. :-( Again, you CAN filter out some noise in post-processing, but you'll never get it all out without making your images look like paintings instead. You'll see this phenomenon in some of the images in this set, the ones that look a bit surreal. So, ALWAYS CHECK YOUR ISO SETTING. Had I set the ISO to "auto," I may have escaped this problem, but I had it set it to a constant 3200. Even when you use a shooting menu, there are settings that those menus won't touch for good reason. ISO is one of those settings. I paid the price with less than optimal results. I did, however, learn my lesson. NOTE: This is a rehash of an earlier set I published. I wasn't happy with the tone (too warm), and I hadn't cataloged them properly either.