Cape Town Sea 2025
Sea photographs from our March 2025 trip to Cape Town — mostly long-exposure shots of the southern Cape coastline. I have been taking seascape photographs of this area for fifteen 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 filters are needed to achieve a normal exposure. Fortunately, my OM-1 Mark II 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 long-exposure shots were taken using Live ND.
Another clever computational feature of the OM cameras is Live Composite. This enables the capture of moving lights across a scene — 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.
Photographs in this album include: Noordhoek Beach sunset, Kalk Bay storm, Table Mountain sunset from Bloubergstrand, Millers Point, Chapmans Peak light trails, Millers Point rock pool, and more.
For camera settings, techniques and equipment used in shoots like this, see the Technique posts on mcaughtry.photo.