Fantastic Beach Scenery Photos

Nuno Vedder shot these beautiful beach landscapes in Portugal with good, old-fashioned camera filters and no fancy post-processing, a rare thing in the age of digital photography.

To view the larger version of the images and read through the forum thread, go here.

On top of superb composition and waiting for the ideal light, the spectacular effects in some of these photos were mainly achieved with the use of two photo filters: a Cokin P125 Tobacco Gradual (or Graduated) filter (see usage examples here) and a ND (Neutral Density) filter.

Nuno also put the Sigma 10-20 mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM lens to good use, making sure to compose in a way that exaggerated the foreground, thus leading the eyes into the main subject.

I’m seriously impressed by the saturated colors in the pictures - Nuno shot the photos in RAW mode and converted the NEF files in Nikon Capture NX.

View more of Nuno’s amazing landscape photos at his PBase gallery.

Sidenote: common filters used in landscape photography

Graduated filters are useful in landscape photography, and they help by darkening the sky, thus allowing you to ensure that both the sky and foreground are correctly exposed (read more here). Neutral density filters darken the entire scene, allowing you to use slower shutter speeds to capture the effect of silky-smooth water in motion, such as waves or waterfalls.

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