Gareth_Carr

Red sky in the morning...

I was down at the beach one morning and saw this girl perched on a rock. I took the chance to grab this shot before she moved....
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I was down at the beach one morning and saw this girl perched on a rock. I took the chance to grab this shot before she moved.
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Mar, 2017

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What a lovely well executed shot Gareth ... It would fit nicely into my new challenge ... Surf Beaches ONLY ..... if you would care to enter it, or a different shot ... You can go into my page and click on challenges and then onto created to find the challenge ... Cheers from Melbourne Trish ... :)

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Thank you for deciding to enter this shot into my challenge Gareth ... i wish you the best of luck with it ... :)

this is outstanding

I love this image very much...
Many beautiful components.
Wonderful composition.

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There was no cloud action that morning so I needed to get creative. This was actually a selfie shot. I set up the camera on my tripod and set the time

A tripod, a timer and standing very still is all you need!

Drove for 2 hours to Mt. Wilson in Sydney's Blue Mountains area to see the Autumn colours. Found this nice little road with nobody around so took

Beautiful clear water in Sydney harbour. Taken with a DJI Phantom 4 drone

Sydney has been treating us to an abundance of beautiful sunrises and sunsets recently so I set out to capture one.

This was shot with a Canon 16-35 lens. Being a wide lens meant I had to get close to the action, very close. I had no waterproof housing so I would ha

I was out here shooting a lifestyle video for the area and I couldn't resist grabbing a quick shot of the beautiful sunrise that greeted me.

Behind The Lens

Location

This photo was taken at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. I do not know the girl in the photo, she was just sat there taking in the sunrise. The fact that she is not a modelling posing gives the picture more impact and adds to the isolation theme as she is genuinely alone. I wonder what she was thinking that morning?

Time

Taken at sunrise around 6am. I wanted a string composition to match the epicness of the sunrise and when I spotted the girl sitting there it was too good an opportunity to miss.

Lighting

The sky was on fire that morning. There are so many shots of Bondi usually wider showing the whole beach so I really wanted to grab something special as you don't see sunrises like this every day.

Equipment

Shot on a Canon 5D3 with a 70-200mm Canon lens.

Inspiration

I do not know the girl in the photo, she was just sat there taking in the sunrise. The fact that she is not a model posing gives the picture more impact and adds to the isolation theme as she is genuinely alone. I wonder what she was thinking that morning?

Editing

I raised the shadows as she was a little dark against the bright sunrise but that's it.

In my camera bag

I normally have my Canon 5D3 body, a telephoto lens, a 16-35mm wide and a 100mm macro. A tripod and spare batteries are always with me as well as 2 memory cards.

Feedback

Get up early and find a composition and wait for the sun to rise. If you leave it too late and are rushing to find a good shot you won't get the shot you desire. I will sometimes even scope out a location the day before so that if I arrive in the dark at sunrise I know exactly where to go.

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Red sky in the morning...

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