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Sunrise at Perch Rock



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This was taken on my first morning on my trip to Anglesey, this was around 5:30am and besides being a long exposure this was exactly how the sky looked for arou...
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This was taken on my first morning on my trip to Anglesey, this was around 5:30am and besides being a long exposure this was exactly how the sky looked for around 10 minutes.
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cameraCanon EOS 7D Mark II

settings Aperture 16/1 ISO 100 Shutter 183/1 Focal Length 24/1 

upload_dateJun, 2016

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4 Comments |
RuwanFonseka PRO
 
RuwanFonseka June 18, 2016
Well crafted.
travlndon
 
travlndon August 13, 2016
Great lighting helps accentuate the loneliness of this lighthouse amid the low tide flats and pools.
joydemarco
 
joydemarco August 13, 2016
Wonderful composition! Beautiful!
Anon_1234
 
Anon_1234 August 14, 2016
Looks other-worldly. Well done!

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Behind The Lens

Location

This photo was taken at New Brighton, the Wirral , on a road trip to Anglesey. I had stopped in a closed supermarket car park to wait for the sun to rise. I'd just made my coffee, sat down in my caravan and the sky started to change colour. It was a most amazing sunrise.

Time

5:30am on a warm November morning last year.

Lighting

As it's a sunrise shot they are always hit and miss. What happens today will be different tomorrow so a lot of this lighting was luck and in the hands of Mother Nature. Especially as it was November.

Equipment

This was shot on a Canon 7DMk2, using a canon 10-22mm lens an ND1000 filter and cable release on a tripod.

Inspiration

I had seen many pictures of this lighthouse. Mostly long exposures with wispy water around the base but I knew when I went it wouldn't have a lot of water. I checked where the sun would be coming up in relation to the lighthouse on the TPE app and it looked good in theory but you never really know until you get there. Luckily it all came together this time.

Editing

Actually for this shot I just sharpened it up and added a little vibrancy and saturation in Photoshop. Most of the surreal look came from the long exposure which was around 2 minutes.

In my camera bag

In my bag I have my normal camera a canon 7d mk2, my old spare which is a canon 500d and a point and shoot Panasonic FZ72 super wide and super zoom. You may laugh but this is a great camera with an equivalent 1200mm zoom and it shoots raw so it's a handy little accessory. I carry the standard canon 18-55mm kit lens, a canon 10-22mm super wide lens, a sigma art prime 24mm, a canon 70-300mm. 2 intervalometers, a wallet of half coloured filters, ND Filters from 0.6 to 0.9 full and half and a 2 ND1000 filters 1 round,1square. I also normally carry a vixen polarie star tracker, 3 USB batteries and lens heaters as I do a lot of stuff at night or by water so the heaters keep the moisture off the lens. Not to mention the spare batteries for all.

Feedback

My advice is try and plan your shot the best you can, look at where it is on the map and to what time of day you will be arriving or want to get there. Check the locations local news a few days in advance, it's no good going to shoot somewhere if it's going to be busy so use the news, social media and the web to check. Finally check google images to see what other shots there are of your location. And think do you really want to recreate the same shot? I might be iconic so ok........ Or do you want to do your own take?

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