Andre Luu
Rocky Way To Heaven
Can Gio beach is on an ecological reserved island located in the South East of Ho Chi Minh City. This beach is wild, lots of trashes, and primarily for clam picking.
It was Hung Kings' holiday, and I went there mainly for enjoying freshly caught seafoods from the fisherman's market. The weather was raining lightly with dark clouds covering the sky, therefore I didn't expect to take any good picture in that weather condition. Nevertheless, I brought my camera equipment along anyway, kind of fishing for that magical moment when the sun rays breaking through
I arrived at 5:45 am, about the time of sunrise according the weather forecast. Suddenly, the dark clouds were torn open, making way for lines of sun rays punching through. In an instant, the sky became splendidly dreamy and magical.
Quickly grabbed my camera and tripod, I ran as fast as I could down the beach, at the same time searching for any interesting foreground subject to shoot with, and above is what I found.
There were lots of clam shells scattering everywhere on this beach, hence they reflected like a bright galaxy on the dark muddy sand.
Graduated Neutral Density filter was used for reducing the sky brightness and bringing out the clouds.
Circular Polarizer filter for further enhancing the clouds and removing the reflection on the rocks.
Rocky Way To Heaven
Can Gio beach is on an ecological reserved island located in the South East of Ho Chi Minh City. This beach is wild, lots of trashes, and primarily for clam picking.
It was Hung Kings' holiday, and I went there mainly for enjoying freshly caught seafoods from the fisherman's market. The weather was raining lightly with dark clouds covering the sky, therefore I didn't expect to take any good picture in that weather condition. Nevertheless, I brought my camera equipment along anyway, kind of fishing for that magical moment when the sun rays breaking through
I arrived at 5:45 am, about the time of sunrise according the weather forecast. Suddenly, the dark clouds were torn open, making way for lines of sun rays punching through. In an instant, the sky became splendidly dreamy and magical.
Quickly grabbed my camera and tripod, I ran as fast as I could down the beach, at the same time searching for any interesting foreground subject to shoot with, and above is what I found.
There were lots of clam shells scattering everywhere on this beach, hence they reflected like a bright galaxy on the dark muddy sand.
Graduated Neutral Density filter was used for reducing the sky brightness and bringing out the clouds.
Circular Polarizer filter for further enhancing the clouds and removing the reflection on the rocks.