Lineup Lurline

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Channel - (c) 2014 Gerard Blacklock

Channel – (c) 2014 Gerard Blacklock
D750 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @16mm Aperture: f/11and Shutter Speed: 15s over exposed frame 5, 2 and 1 second for the highlight details shots. All manually blended in +Adobe Photoshop ISO 100
out front – Lee Graduated Filter 0.9x and the Hoya Circular Polariser.

Welcome to the channel of pain
Many months ago after doing a sunrise session at Maroubra I drove around the headland and noticed this little dinky bay tucked away amongst some very expensive property, whilst I am sure its not the first time the place has been photographed it certainly has to be on the lesser known and abused list of spots.
After some reccy on google I noticed this mad channel penetrating the ocean, from the satellite view it look natural, however, as one can see its pretty clearly man made (something not noticed until on site)…. for what? probably a obsolete poo dump pipe 🙂

It has taken a few couple failed attempts to get here, mainly due to sleep motivation issues ( +Suren J I am looking at you here) but finally I made it 🙂

and.. ya know the real kicker? there were no hordes of togs there ! – well I don’t count +Rodney Campbell more than twice, so no hordes… just two 🙂

It was one of the really nice mornings to be out, nice colour, muted sunrise by a large bank of cloud cool rock formations and plenty of sweet green slippery ass moss (don’t quote that outta context)

As part of the reccy on +Google+ and the photographers ephemeris (photoephemeris.com) I noticed that towards the end of the year the sun lined up with the channel… hence the need to get there now-ish 🙂 There are several other nearby locations like this which come alive with the sun lining up channels and crevasses…all which are on the cards for the month of december 🙂

anywhos… onto the obligatory image info..

This image is captured from 4 different exposures, even with the graduated filters onboard the super dynamic range of the nikon D750 there is still the need to bracket to capture all the dynamic range without pushing the limits of the sensor range and raw files.

This was also taken using my 11-16mm DX lens since my 16-35 is currently being assessed for repair..which by comparsion was not as sharp (well mostly) as my DX 11-16mm…

Exif/setup data:
D750 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @16mm Aperture: f/11and Shutter Speed: 15s over exposed frame 5, 2 and 1 second for the highlight details shots. All manually blended in +Adobe Photoshop ISO 100
out front – Lee Graduated Filter 0.9x and the Hoya Circular Polariser.

 

55 thoughts on “Lineup Lurline”

  7. Beautiful photo. I am continually amazed that I am physically in the USA but have access to these beautiful photos from across the world. Our world is not so big anymore. Thank you for sharing.

  22. nice one Gerald. I always appreciate the words as well as the image. Not sure that post would have survived my chainsaw 😮 or maybe the clone tool. You can certainly find some great locations and subjects

  25. There are many of these channels in the north east of England and they were man made so that the sailing ship's of the time could get close to the shore on rocky coastline to pick up minerals, mainly potash over here in the north east of England and with the sun lining up it probably made it easier to land in daylight. Just a possibility because they seem very similar, ponies would be used to pull the ship's into the channels wich would be hand carved with picks, hammers and wedges.

  26. great write up on this post big G !
    Nothing will be taken outta context 😉
    A while back you mention another spot that was ripe for shooting in December, lets book it in

  41. +Ian Browne
    haha I did think about cloning that out, however I deliberately composed the shot with the pole there so I felt bad about considering it 🙂
    I have no idea what that pole is there for…
    I love looking for cool locations close to home 🙂 especially with sunrise so damn early at the moment.

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