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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    • 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.

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  5. 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.

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    • 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.

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    • 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.

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    • 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.

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