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While fishing off the coast of South Australia we were treated to a dawn light display, lucky I had my phone with me and a few decent sized snappers for a few meals 😋
Yes, I've posted this one several times, with various crops, edits, you name it. I've had the hardest time processing this one because the light was so difficult. This screams for a GND filter but I don't have one so I've been using the one in Lightroom and adjusting the temperature, clarity, contrast, everything to try to get it to look the way I saw it. I think I've finally gotten it right. Then again, I've said that before…. It was the most dramatic dawn I've ever seen so it deserves to be worked on. All comments welcome, especially critiques and suggestions for improvement!
Quality: smu.gs/1sgbtsq
Beech trees welcome the day's first light at the appropriately named Buijinbayashi (literally translated, "Pretty Lady Grove"). While the abundance of rice terraces in the area initially attracted me, this grove showered with morning light took my breath away.
I've been thinking of focusing on black and white for a while and so I decided to start messing with some of my existing photos. I'm liking the way this came out. Here's the color version for reference - flic.kr/p/2hKVaJQ. Which do you prefer?
The fog was heavy and the sun was just starting to burn through. Not something often seen in Toronto ! Actually fog not smog !
As promised, I got up early today as I had a hunch yesterday that it would pay off. And so it did! I still have to go through most of them but I'm sure that there will be many more to come and some are even better than this one.
I'm going to put my signature in these kind of photo's as I've noticed too many of my sun ray shots spread over the internet, and they're not always credited to me..
The lighthouse at Cape Schanck just after sunset. Walking in the dark was fun but managed to make it out without tripping on too many unseen obstacles.
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Early autumn in a very foggy Chatsworth Park - not much time on my hands but just enough to spot this happening and grab a few hand-held shots.
The rotating beacon of the Heceta Head Lighthouse, Oregon coast. Built in 1892, it is considered by many to be the most beautiful lighthouse on the western U.S. coast. It’s beam has a range of 21 nautical miles (39 km; 24 mi).
BTW, those two large “stars” near the horizon are Venus and Jupiter — a very close alignment or conjunction (July 3 @ 11:30pm). Venus is the brighter of the two (because it is much closer to the Sun and the Earth), even though it is much smaller than Jupiter.
Image # 2,000 — this image is my 2,000th post on Flickr :)
Exposure TIP: When I posted this yesterday on Instagram, one person asked, “Composite shot to get the light beams like that, Royce, or you have some magic trick?” My answer: All eight beams are there. They rotate together. The shutter speed time determines the width of the beams - too short and the beams are very narrow (not as graphic). Too long and they all connect and blend together (3 to 4 seconds worked best for this lighthouse). F-stop and ISO determine the strength or brightness of the beams.
I did make one underexposure (1 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200) of the lighthouse in order to get some detail in the glass panels. I then copied and pasted just that area onto the final image (via Photoshop layers @ 30% opacity). Without this composite addition, there would be no detail in that very bright area of the lighthouse.
DSLR : Canon EOS 90D Lense : Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM Software : Lightroom/Photoshop
Focal :50mm Aperture :F8 Speed :1/4s ISO :100 Flash :Off
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So I am not sure where to start... There was so much going on yesterday morning, it was a photographers nightmare and dream all at the same time...This is one of those scenes that you almost throw up your arms in defeat right from the start... There is no way the camera was going to be able to fully capture what was occurring... Do you go wide angle or telephoto? Light rays, swirling low fog, green hills, high clouds, city obscured one second visible the next... Anyway long story longer, this was my take, it was nice seeing some old neurotic, sleep deprived friends and meeting a few new neurotic ones on Mount Tamalpais yesterday morning...
"Cool like the ocean
Burned like a summer home
Fooled by the notion
That the sums don't add up at all" - Silversun Pickups
☞ viewing large matters
A view down the Sound of Sleat with a rain squall drifting towards Loch Hourn. Isle of Eigg on the far horizon.
See previous post about these lightrays. I thought it would be good to view the previous image with this one that encompasses the entire scene and shows the context of those rays and that massive, blanket of cloud from which they escaped.