Sunrising Rock II
On New Years Day I posted a partly submerged bedrock at sunrise, and a few days later a picture of bedrock with a fencepost and creamy sea and also some abstracts taken with a moving camera, and a tide pool all at sunrise. All were long exposures taken in low light with a polarizing filter. This photo was taken that same day – 12 minutes after the fence post shot and was followed by the tide pool 19 minutes later and the abstract another 5 minutes and finally the New Years Day shot another 8 minutes after that.
I guess I was moving pretty fast as there were other tripod locations in between, and quite a few shots in total. There was a bit of swell left that was moving the water just enough to blend individual waves into a fog around the rock and to turn a small patch of kelp into a grey smudge offshore.
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Canon EOS 5D MkII, Canon 50mm f1.4 lens, ISO100, F16, 15 seconds, polarizing filter.
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Wow, I can’t even begin to start to express how much I like this…speechless!
Hi David – thanks so much. My subsequent posts are seeming a lot like a let down. Oh well, I like that one too and if I get in a couple of dozen that people really like, then I am probably doing pretty well.
I love how the pink changes to purple!
Hi Background – it is is a fantastic gradation, which only lasted for a few minutes.
This shot has such a huge range of tones and colors but it doesn’t seem over processed like some of the HDR photos I see around. When I have a shot of my own that I like a lot, I assign it the keyword PORTFOLIO so I can find the best ones easily no matter where the reside. This would get that keyword.
Hi Ken. Thank you for your vote of confidence. I do need a way to mark the best of my photos so that I can easily look them up. Not sure how to go about it, but your idea seems like a good one.
For this image I did not process it very much at all – a bit of extra contrast, mostly because I was shooting in Neutral mode, and a bit of a graduated filter to bring the mountains and sky up a little bit, though I had very little to work with there and probably went a touch too far, at least once it has been downsampled for posting. I have several of these shots with different things in their favour and I keep coming back to look at them again. Not sure why I did not post one earlier.
The colors are lovely. Very beautiful.
Thank you Robin. I really like them too. It was hard to choose among the half dozen images I have with these colours.
Lovely, lovely, lovely, Sally
Thanks so much Sally x3
Beautiful…the water looks like clouds!
It does look a bit as if we are looking down on top of a cloud bank. The long exposure worked out particularly well in this one – as it did in the earlier post from this day with the fence post, looking the opposite direction from nearly the same spot.
It’s just magnificent !!
Thanks Mathias, its great that you like it.
That’s wonderful; what great colors and tones here, my friend!
Thanks Toad. I contemplated trying to adjust the colour a bit because I think the polarizing filter probably “messed it up”, but I like these colours so much that I left that alone.
Beautiful shrouded colour shifts across the image.
Thank you Karen. I like the pictures that I took of the sunrise at nearly right angles to the sun, and I think the polarizing filter is probably in play too.
I do love using a polarizing filter at times !
Only downside as far as I am concerned is sometime it makes things too blue. But, that can usually be fixed.
Wow! The colors sing in this image. I love the far off, purpled mountains and the reflections on the nearby rocks. This is so beautiful and peaceful. Wonderful image.
Thanks Ryan, it is peaceful. That was a great morning for photography with a lot of peaceful images resulting.
So beautiful!
Thanks!
amazing work!
Thank you dadirri – glad you like it.