I was overdue for a cracker sunrise, and although I would have hoped for some more clouds, the colour in the sky was simply amazing. When we arrived at 5.30am, and the sun was still one hour away from rising, there was some pretty pink colour in the sky already.


Processing:


None of the colour in the sky got enhanced. I simply darkened down the sky with the grad tool in Lightroom.

At the time of shooting I used a 2 stop ND grad. The lighting actually required a 3-stop ND which I had in my bag but forgot to clean the day before. With a sunrise like that you cannot afford to lose any time cleaning your gear. I made sure I would not blow out the sky (by checking the histogram on my screen), so I would have no problem later on in LR to bring down the exposure another stop.


I added more detail in the water with some local sharpening and contrast adjustments.

The splashing wave in the frame was pure luck. I had a few shots with splashing waves, but this was the only shot which had most of the elements the way I wanted them to be.
Sometimes I am too lazy to spend one hour in photoshop, to enhance a shot by 5% when I am very close to the result I wanted to achieve in the first place.
I prefer spending less time processing and more time shooting lol

This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 at 8:41 pm and is filed under Locations, Software. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.