Canal Rocks
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parallel-universe
February 24, 2017
Wonderful landscape. I fall in love with these colours, awesome work !
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Location
This photo was taken at Canal Rocks where the Antarctic and Indian oceans meet. You have to be wary as king waves smash into the rocks and can sweep you away. In fact - you can see traces of foam from a king wave in the foreground on the left of the image.Time
This place is about a three hour drive from our capital city of Perth in Western Australia. We had travelled down with family for a few days and taken them out to see Canal Rocks so that we could capture the sunset. Around 6pm in the evening the sun began to slip below the horizon. This was taken about 10 minutes before the sun actually dropped out of sight - allowing enough light so that I didn't lose my foreground.Lighting
I love the side lighting on the centre rock where the waves are breaking. As this particular area is a point where the south meets the western corner of Australia you get this really unique side lighting at the sunset - even though we are located in the west. The clouds create the dramatic nature of the lighting in this photograph. I don't mind a bit of rain during the day if I can get dramatic clouds for the sunset.Equipment
Shot on my Olympus OMD EM-1 with the Olympus 12-40 f2.8 Pro lens. No other equipment was involved.Inspiration
This is a favourite location of mine when I am down this way. So I always want to come here at sunset to check out the light and see if there is another angle I can shoot it from. I was particularly hoping for a wave crashing on the central rock with dramatic sunset lighting while still capturing the foreground.Editing
I don't like to over process images. As per usual I developed the RAW in Lightroom mainly using blacks, shadows, highlights, gradient filter and some slight adjustments in the colour sliders - particularly in the orange, red and yellow luminosity.In my camera bag
Field work - 2 x Olympus OM-D EM-1's, Olympus 12-40 f2.8, Olympus, 40-150 f2.8 + 1.4 teleconverter, Leica/Lumix 42.5 f1.2, Olympus 75 f1.8, Olympus 7-14 f2.8, Olympus 60 f2.8 Macro, 2 x Olympus flash. Weddings - 2 x Canon 5D3's, Canon 24-70 f2.8 L MkII, Canon 70-200 f2.8 L MkII, Canon 50 f1.4, Canon 85 f1.8, Canon 16-35 f2.8 L MkII, Canon 100 f2.8 Macro, Canon 14 f2.8 L, Canon 135 f2 L, 2 x Canon 600EX-RT flash units, Westcott Ice Light, Spider double holster camera belt.Feedback
When facing constantly changing light you need to know your camera well - practice so that you can adjust exposure on the fly and as much as possible develop the ability to shoot manually so that you are the decision maker in creating an image. In this photo the camera would most likely have given me a dud exposure if I had let it make the decision. So practice shooting at sunset - try to expose for the foreground, for the sky, a silhouette and in between. Work out what settings work for each of the images you want to create and then you will be ready. Also keep in mind that if you want to balance the foreground and the sky you will have to do a little post work or use a graduated filter on the camera.
