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I had returned from my 2 days drive through coastal Australia with my front, side and back pockets full of photos. This is Loch Ard Gorge near Port Campbell. Th...
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I had returned from my 2 days drive through coastal Australia with my front, side and back pockets full of photos. This is Loch Ard Gorge near Port Campbell. This was my last day of stay there and to be honest my birthday. I was out photographing other places during the day and the thought of photographing this place at night was knocking at the back of my head which I didn't want to regret later.

What you cannot see in this photo was the moon which was right above and could not be captured in a single frame. Moon light lit everything there and honestly I was happy about it as Loch Ard Gorge is really dark as being away from towns or cities. I knew I would not have been able to capture the details in the foreground if it was not moonlit.

The exposure was a bit tricky there while moon being right above. A properly exposed foreground was resulting in overexposed sky and vice versa. Besides that I wanted to show the movement in the clouds as well without overexposing them. I captured two different exposures for this photo and blended them in in photoshop.
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