When you turn up sunrise and its nearly an hour before the big S breaches the horizon, things can be a tad on the dark side, however, it is this time, also known as nautical sunrise, where you can get some stunning deep colour. Capturing it is easy, its getting all the stuff around it to be bright enough to even show up….
One solution is to take along a torch, which if you have any sense you would have cause its damn dark and you would stumbling around in the dark without one 🙂 anyway you can take this torch and provide a little artifical illumination, its a bit of trial and error but the results can be OK… mostly I have found it pretty hit and miss, and in this case.. well things got a bit too cooked, hence the title compete the artificial rock takes over the image and just about drowns out the for sunrise 🙂
Another point to make about using your torch to light paint, and I bang on about this all the time, is to make sure you use it nice and low to the ground to get some texture, but also more importantly choose where you want the light to come from – don't do what I did in this case and be lazy and just stand next to camera and halfheartedly wave it around 🙂 pick a spot well off to the side and give it a nice flow. Apply more light further away from the camera and less closer to the camera since the closer bit will light up much quicker.. you know light fall off as you get away from the camera.
Anyway, there you have it.. compete.
single frame, LED torch illuminating the rock fence from the right hand side, the other reason for the lazy man option was it was dark and I could not see much and.. there was some big potholes there .. anyways..thats the excuse I am sticking too 🙂
Exif love:
D750 coupled with 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f/13 and Shutter Speed: 97.8s
ISO 100
out front – Hoya CPL, Lee Graduated 0.9 Filter
That is a wonderful photograph. Thank you so much for sharing how you created it.
wonderful work!
Very Beautiful 🙂
Amazing… excellent photography…
Stunning picture ☺ ☺ Wonderful colors ☺ ☺
Amazing shot +Gerard Blacklock and the light painting on the rock doesn't ruin the image at all. Its warm color pops out in the middle of a deep blue sea. Great work 😉
Beautiful +Gerard Blacklock Love the wonderful color and light!
You're a master at composition, +Gerard Blacklock. Always a great shot!
Agree..such rich colours here.
Great work
When I first saw it small I thought it was a pillar up to a pointy rock before opening it up large. In some ways I reckon it looked better small than the large version mate. That underwater weed adds some really nice texture to the foreground
Awesome!! It's a stunning image!
This wonderful image has been chosen to be shared on #PhotoManiaAustralia +Photo Mania Australia curated by +Tony Heyward +Ed Cobb +John Hunt and +Matt Glastonbury (Photo Mania Australia is a part of +Photo Mania Global) Ed Cobb
That looks pretty cool +Gerard Blacklock! This post didn't show up in my notifications for some reason! The rock is a tad bright but not so much as to ruin the image!
Thanks +Markus Hill , +Anatoliy Urbanskiy, +Linda Stokes , +Praveen Thangarajah and +Stephanie B. Regan
Thankyou +Claudio Beffa and +Linda Stokes
too kind 🙂 +Bryn Parke
Thankyou +Maggie Walsh and +Cole R572
+Rodney Campbell
if only, that would be cool. the neptune necklaces under the water were pretty cool, pretty hard to get alot of detail but just enough to add some interest.
Thankyou +Sabine Kaufmann
+Tom Testone
i was a little over zealous with the torch and lazy too, i really should have gotten more off to one side.
Thanks +Photo Mania Australia and +Ed Cobb
+Gerard Blacklock yeah but you still managed to pull off a very usable image! There's always next time mate! 😉