BrettRitchiePhotography

The Lake

Merimbula Lake, NSW Australia, just after sunrise.

Merimbula Lake, NSW Australia, just after sunrise.
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Canon EOS-1D X

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Aperture f/6.3 ISO 200 Shutter 1/200

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Apr, 2014

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Behind The Lens

Location

This image was captured just after dawn on Merimbula Lake, NSW Australia's far south coast. This is a much photographed little boat and seems to have been moored there forever. The lake has a channel that runs it's length for the boats to be able to exit at low tide as it is in this image.

Time

The image was created just after dawn as you can see by the beautiful golden light on the building to the right.

Lighting

The sky in this image is of special note as it has a heavy layer of smoke that can be seen on the mountain horizon line due to recent severe bush fires. I would have normally waited a little later to capture of the light on the clouds but I preferred the light hitting the shore line.

Equipment

The camera used for this image was a Canon 1DX, a Canon 24-105L @ 24mm, no tripos used, hand held.

Inspiration

The inspiration for the photo is not a very exciting tale as I was returning from a sunrise shoot at a nearby beach when I spotted the golden light hitting the shore line and knew I just had to capture it!

Editing

I have used mainly Lightroom to process this image with only sharpening done in Photoshop. The sky was a little dull due to not receiving any dawn light at that stage and has been warmed a little and the foreground shadows have been brought up a touch as I was exposing for the shoreline light.

In my camera bag

I have recently converted to Nikon and narrowed down my kit. I now use a D810 and Sigma lenses almost exclusively. My main lens of choice is a Sigma 50mm Art for portraiture, Sigma 24-70mm and 70-200 f2.8 for weddings, Samyang 14mm for Astrophotography and a Sigma 150-500mm for anything outside the 200's range. I use a Vanguard tripod with a standard ball head. Studio equipment and flashes as needed for individual shoots.

Feedback

This sort of shot can be tricky because of the huge contrast in lighting across the image area. Anytime I attempt this shot I would normally use a tripod but in this case I didn't really have time. I shot this image by exposing for the highlights on the right side of the image and used the shadow features in Lightroom to bring out the detail in post processing. It could have just as easily been taken in bracketed shots and combined in Photoshop but I am not a big fan of HDR. My advice would be to get your highlights right in camera as they are much harder to recover than shadows and try to stick somewhat close to the images true colours as they were taken rather than over saturating.

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The Lake

Merimbula Lake, NSW Australia, just after sunrise.

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