'The Rumps' from near Lundy Bay in Cornwall UK. 2 second exposure to get the motion of the surf snaking out to sea. Polariser, 3 stop hard grad. ISO50 F11.
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I'd rate it 4 stars if you had eliminated the luminosity drop of the gradient filter on the rocks.
Stop using graduated filters and use a ND filter and do a dual exposure instead, no pain in the ass darkening on the past horizon parts of the image and equally easy to blend and post process.
Politely, I'm not sure that any of that applies? He needs to have used an ND filter to get the water to look so smooth (2 second exposure as he says). The rocks do not appear to have much editing in the foreground, and the center third of the image only has a little bit of dodging?
Thanks Bill, not quite sure what you by luminosity drop? Apart from a little vignette this shot is pretty much SOOC. A dual exposure using an ND would create two colour profiles and imo ruin the naturalness. A got a 2 sec exp because it was dusk and i had a polariser at iso50, with a grad. No need for ND to create the motion.
The rocks and water parts in the red rectangles are clearly ~3 stops darker than the rest of the image.
They are dark like that because of the graduated filter.
See the following image for reference:
https://imgur.com/JWD1hb2
With a ND filter you wouldn't have that problem, and white balance wouldn't be an issue with the ND filter simply because:
1) You can take both shots with the ND filter
2) You can color match the images via Photoshop and even in a very easy way.