Sea photographs, from our March 2025 trip to Cape Town.



These are mostly long exposure shots of the southern Cape coastline. I have been taking seascape photos of this area for 15 years or more, and thought I had run out of locations. But this trip, my friend and neighbour Martin showed me several more, and inspired by this, I found other new views and locations I hadn't shot before. Once again, this trip reminded me of the great beauty of the granite and sandstone geology of the Cape coastline.



Long exposure shots result in a lot of light entering the camera, and as a result, Neutral Density (ND) filters (a bit like sunglasses) are needed to get a normal exposure. Fortunately, my OM-1 camera has a unique computational photography feature called "live ND" that removes the need for most physical ND filters. This eliminates the risk of losing physical filters into the foaming briny (which I have done a great deal). All these LE shots were taken with live ND using a new and simplified workflow, which makes the normally complex LE process very fast and easy. I have written about this and the whole area of ND in a couple of recent posts on this site.



Another clever computational feature of the OM cameras is "live composite". This enables the capture of moving lights across a scene, like star trails, car lights, or train movement. No other camera system has this, and it can be very effective. I have included three of these shots in the album, including one of the first morning train to Simons Town, which I am particularly pleased with.

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