Hot Morning Sex on the Beach
My wife said "You got Wood and I have Fire" and that is what it looks like a good time on the beach! That is why everyone likes that capture they just do not kn...
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My wife said "You got Wood and I have Fire" and that is what it looks like a good time on the beach! That is why everyone likes that capture they just do not know what it is suggesting. This one PP in Photomatix, LR6, Nik Software. Almost the same as the other PP in LR6 HDR. No PS Layers! A7s, SEL1635Z @16 mm 5 images @ +-- 2 ev ISO 50
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Location
A place where you never put your camera down. The beautiful Driftwood Beach at Jekyll Island State Park Georgia. Where every sunrise is different and the driftwood moves a little with every tide giving a different capture with a high tide that covers all and a low tide with new clean sand avoid of foot prints and the beach with different grains of water trails of the outgoing tide. A place where people are not walking about at sunrise but are still in bed or eating breakfast at a local hotel.Time
Early Morning before sunrise at 04/24/2015 06:59 am at low tide. Tide charts are difficult to read and determine exactly the time of low tide and I had to just get out there before and in the dark, luck a low tide. Weather of clouds may have turned away most but no rain and little wind made for a perfect set up.Lighting
As with every sunrise lighting is the luck of the draw, the sun rose on the horizon below the cloud cover. Sometimes you get clouds on the horizon and the sun has to rise above them. This sunrise allowed sunlight to beam into the clouds reflecting above and within and below across the water. With all sunrises bracketing is needed due to capturing the dynamic range of light, 5 frames at +/- 2 ev is a good setting, my new Sony A7S (at the time) has this selection were my Canon T2i only had 3 frames at 2 ev. The shortest SS (darkest) will give you a nice small sun whereas the longer SS will give you no shape of a sun, in the end you get to chose what brackets to use or if only one but you have them all for it will not happen again the same way ever for mother nature does her own artwork once. I may add today's software does not give the blue clouds unless you use a lot of dehaze, negative dehaze will give nice white clouds.Equipment
This was back on April 24, 2015 after a change to Sony the A7S from a Canon T2i during October 2014 and the purchase of the Vario-Tessar T* FE 16–35mm F4 ZA OSS after using the Canon EF-S 10-22 (16-35mm) using an adapter on the A7S. The A7S had a selection of 5 frames at 3 ev vs A7R of 3 frames at +/- 3 ev and it was the age of HDR photography, more frames the better for dynamic range. Tripod was the Manfrotto 190L (big/heavy) sturdy on the sand using tennis balls on the legs and clear trash bags over the legs because of the salt water. Other items to set up in most places knee high rubber boots (water is cold) to keep feet dry, insect repellent - Skin So Soft oil in a small water filled spray bottle - the No See Memes come out at sunrise and a light weight baklava head cover. Being a sunrise/sunset photographer you learn from many times out!Inspiration
Inspired by many previous sunrise captures on the this beach.This day was during a stay at Jekyll Island on the way home from a visit to Beaufort South Carolina and Hunting Island State Park. It is an internal thing that requires no alarm clock, I just awake 2 hours before a sunrise with gear packed and ready making a large cup of coffee and a small fruit cake sliced for energy. If a clear night I would be out after midnight to capture the Milky Way which is visible till just before sunrise then staying for the sunrise and added some bird captures with the sunlight from behind in the marsh next to the beach. What I call a three fer night!!! You have to be out there and can not second guess the weather or condition (unless it is raining), Until the sun light comes you never know the magic of the light and like a sunset not till the sun goes down below and all have left does the show start with colors till the blue hour.Editing
Yes post-processing is needed especially for bracketed shooting. This was 2015 and Lightroom and Photoshop (both separate and about $800 each) did not have HDR processing. I used Oloneo Photo Engine that has HDR engine ($59) to combine all 5 frames, great deghosting of the moving clouds and processing the dynamic range of light and colors then used the CaptureOne, $30, for Sony, like today's lightroom but in 2015. In the short time of 5 years software has advanced like that of many decades and cost is held low for the masses of photographer that are just hobbyist. Think of the film days, sending a roll to a lab having no dark room ($$ to have a place and the equipment needed) but having just a print of one ev capture not able to blend the other two images you took, a 12 roll was just 4 shots, 3 ev shots to choose from!In my camera bag
In 2015 I had very little gear! The A7S and the Vario-Tessar T* FE 16–35mm F4 ZA OSS and some cloth lens wipes. Quart plastic bags to cover the camera and lens to protect from the salt air and most time wind also. I mainly for traveling bring with me all my gear in 2015 - Canon FD and EF-S lenses and adapters and but when out for a shoot only what I will need one Camera and lens. Also a remote cable shutter to prevent shake. Today I have the A7S (still), A7Rii and A7iii. The main lenses the Sony FE 12-24mm F4 G, FE 24-240mm F3.5-6.3 OSS and FE 200–600 mm F5.6–6.3 G OSS and 1.4x and 2x teleconverters . With just 3 lenses I can capture from 12mm to 1800mm while traveling. If need to change a lens I have clear trash bags that all will fit in to change out. I use also a Photography vest (found at a flea market for $30) it has many pockets for a camera with lens and all things like batteries and cleaning, no need to wear a bag that screams "Camera" but look like just a fisherman vest/travel vest and never forget bag left in a restaurant or in car (out of site).Feedback
My Advice to others after 40 years of film and 15 years of digital (from point and shoot times), No matter when you start photography start small and inexpensive, today your phone maybe, for it has to be foremost relaxing with an internal feel of accomplishment no matter what is said about it but with a desire to do better while listening to what is said! This image is a sunrise, it requires you to be out at a location an hour before the sun rises. Requires imagination for you have to do some time in scouting a location or two and then having a daydream like thought where you can see it in your minds eye! Have to be part weather person to know when good clouds will be above or not. You have to have an internal kick not an external alarm to get out there and be there while not waking anyone, but give your distatation to someone before just in case! It is not a job it is an experience to capture what others sleep through or see sunlight on a kitchen wall while having breakfast. May a start taking a camera with you on your way to work, maybe an hour or so early this may start the dreaming, but you have to see the colors of the fast changing light of maybe only 30 minutes before even lifting a camera for you have to enjoy it first of all. Today with a computer in your hands there are apps made by the young today to help some cost some not but buy them they will help forever. The Photographer's Ephemeris (TPE), PhotoPills, Planit Live, Planit Pro of the many things has a tide section for your location that will be in the below timeline section as a sine wave that will show highs and lows so you can plan a good empty beach. If night shooting also before a sunrise say blue hour Star Walk 2, Clear Outside, SkySafari and Stellarium +! Then a local channels weather app or Weather Wunderground. All of this and no time for Social Media that is the meaning of desire and not bragging about. One last thing login to Viewbug and look at what others capture to learn but to know what is possible when your soul becomes part of the story of the unseen sunrise. Also stay low cost in Post Processing software they are all the same one way or the other.
