Here's a glimpse of what it looks like thanks to Google Earth's wonderful Streetview which went live during the week for the whole of Ireland:
Just to the right of the scene above is a pathway that leads to another beach and it was there (the co-ordinates quoted above give the exact location) that I went last evening to take some long exposures after sunset. The sea was suitably choppy with some fine breakers crashing on the sand.
Sunset is getting earlier and earlier now that we are well into Autumn. It was 7:10pm yesterday.
I set up my Canon 5D Mark 11 fitted with a 17-40 L lens and two Lee filters attached: a 0.9 ND and a 0.9 ND Grey Grad. I used a Canon cable release as my trusty Hahnel remote's battery was run down.
I took a series of exposures (camera set to manual) using an aperture of f/16 and varying the exposure times. The ND filter helped to shorten the shutter speeds in order to give the creamy water effect that I was after while the Grey Grad helped to pull back the exposure of the sky.
I set up my tripod on a rock and took a series of exposures. Forty five minutes and two very wet feet later (note to self: buy a pair of Wellingtons) the light had faded too much for my purposes and I set off home.
I used Canon's DPP 3.8.0 to process the RAW files. Version 3.8 is well worth the download if you are using an earlier version - it has a brilliant new trimming/angle adjustment tool. Some further minor tweaks were done in Photoshop.
This is one of the shots I was happy with:
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