Morning Picnic
Dec, 2013Views
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This was taken from the Milla Milla Lookout looking out toward the Atherton Tablelands in Far North Queensland Australia.Time
my wife and i left home at 2 in the morning so i could get a sunrise from this lookout it is about 2 hours from home so i didn't want to miss it. I had only had my camera for 4 months and had just received a new sigma 10-20 F4-5.6 wide angle lens for Christmas so i was keen to try it out. this was taken on the 28th of December at 600am, so only had a couple of days to figure it out. I was stuffing around trying to get the sun coming up but kept messing all my pictures up, i turned around from where i was taking the sunrise and this is the view i had behind me. Turns out this looked way better than any of the sunrises i got this particular morning.Lighting
I was concentrating on the sunrise and getting frustrated because only having my camera for 4 months and still didn't know what i was really doing with it the sun was to bright so i turned to give up and as i turned around this is what i saw, it was the morning sun just coming up over the hills so everything was so fresh it was amazing.Equipment
This is my first SLR camera it is a Canon 700D, with my Sigma 10-20 f4-5.6. plus at the time i had a really cheap Silk tripod.Inspiration
I was trying to get the sunrise directly behind me from where i took this photo but turned around and saw this so my subject changed. The fresh morning sun just amplified the amazing colours as the sun came up.Editing
The only thing i did was a little bit of Sharpening in lightroom 4 but that is it, my Lightroom 4 abilities are very very limited so even if i wanted to i can't do much.In my camera bag
I usually carry my low pro back pac with my Canon 700D and 2 kit lenses hoping to upgrade one of these days, my sigma 10-20 wide angle, and my sigma 100-200. I now have a Manfrotto tripod shaped to the outside of my pac and a few different cleaning brushes and wet wipes. and in the back a poncho incase the weather turns bad.Feedback
a lesson i lernt this day was don't get to busy trying to get the picture you want and make sure you look around as the sunrise i traveled 2 hours from home to capture turned out to be the crap photo of the day the real beauty was at my back, i was just just lucky i turned around when i did.
