'Nervous...'
Going into a black cave in the wee hours with the amplified sounds of the ocean (and a few million mozzies finding you quite intereresting) can be uhh inimidating to say the least.
Add the fact that it's a bit of an iconic location that your determined to do your best on, and you can find yourself arguing out loud with the mozzies and yourself in a cave alone in the dark.
Technically from my side of the lens I muffed this one well and truly and spent the day yesterday determined just to leave it alone and let it 'sit' while I gave it the time in my head to sort itself out.
Glad I did now - this isn't the image I was hoping for but, for my first attempt at something like this I'm happy to share the view.
Hope you enjoy it as much as I do?
Pentax K1 w Irix 21/1.4
Two frames one for the foreground one for the well 'that bit in the distance'.
Foreground ISO800 f/7.1 10s with SmallRig lightsource set to around 3200 at full power - see madlt waving around the cave trying not to fall over, hit head or tripod.
That other bit - single frame ISO3200 f/4 8s
Both frames raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 6, stacked and blended as .tiff files in Affinity Photo 2, colour graded in Color Efex Pro 5 and tweaked in Topaz AI before finishing off back in PhotoLab.
Cathedral Rock, Kiama Downs, Kiama, NSW
'Nervous...'
Going into a black cave in the wee hours with the amplified sounds of the ocean (and a few million mozzies finding you quite intereresting) can be uhh inimidating to say the least.
Add the fact that it's a bit of an iconic location that your determined to do your best on, and you can find yourself arguing out loud with the mozzies and yourself in a cave alone in the dark.
Technically from my side of the lens I muffed this one well and truly and spent the day yesterday determined just to leave it alone and let it 'sit' while I gave it the time in my head to sort itself out.
Glad I did now - this isn't the image I was hoping for but, for my first attempt at something like this I'm happy to share the view.
Hope you enjoy it as much as I do?
Pentax K1 w Irix 21/1.4
Two frames one for the foreground one for the well 'that bit in the distance'.
Foreground ISO800 f/7.1 10s with SmallRig lightsource set to around 3200 at full power - see madlt waving around the cave trying not to fall over, hit head or tripod.
That other bit - single frame ISO3200 f/4 8s
Both frames raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 6, stacked and blended as .tiff files in Affinity Photo 2, colour graded in Color Efex Pro 5 and tweaked in Topaz AI before finishing off back in PhotoLab.
Cathedral Rock, Kiama Downs, Kiama, NSW