MegaMarty
FollowWhen I sent the girls out to catch the bus, there was an awesome sunrise that I just had to capture.
When I sent the girls out to catch the bus, there was an awesome sunrise that I just had to capture.
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MegaMarty
April 06, 2015
In Regina Saskatchewan, Canada. My daughters were catching the school bus when I saw this amazing sunrise. I couldn't pass this up, so I grabbed my camera and this is the result. I'm glad you like the photograph. Thank you for the award.
Mother_Nature
October 14, 2015
Aww should have read other comments, Myself live in Ontario Canada, I thought Ontario had the best Sunrise./sets ;)
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This photograph was taken from my driveway in the North end of Regina Saskatchewan.Time
I got my camera after seeing this gorgeous sunrise after sending my daughters off to catch their school bus. The sun was magnificent at 8:43 that December morning.Lighting
It was still fairly dark out, being December 11th but the sunrise was so gorgeous I knew I just needed to photograph it. I wanted the several shades of yellows and oranges to come out in the photograph I set the camera's f stop to f4.5 to allow as much light in as my 55-300mm lens would allow. The shutter speed was 1/640th of a second because I was hand-holding the camera. I wanted as little blur-motion as possible, while still letting in plenty of light. The lens was as wide as it could be at 55mm to capture as much of the scene as I could get and to minimize noise, I set the ISO to 100.Equipment
I was anticipating going out later in the morning to shoot, so I had my Nikkor 55-300mm 1:4.5-5.6 lens mounted on my Nikon D5100. I didn't use my tripod because the sun was rising quite quickly at that time in the morning. I didn't want to waste a second. I didn't use my flash, though I could have put my amber gel on my speedlight but didn't think about that at the time. It probably would have made the colours pop a bit more.Inspiration
Usually the morning sunrise isn't that spectacular for a December in Regina. It's usually overcast, not letting these colours and shades to explode across the sky like this. I was taken back with how beautiful the morning sky was, I just had to photograph it.Editing
Yes. When I imported the RAW file into Lightroom, the colours were dull and didn't pop the way I saw them. These are my Lightroom settings for this photograph: WB Custom: Temperature: 50000 Tint: +10 Tone Auto: Exposure: + 0.91 Contrast: +100 Highlights: -23 Shadows: +100 Whites: -78 Blacks: +100 Presence: Clarity: +100 Vibrance: +28 Saturation: +4 Region: Highlights: -100 Lights +100 Darks: -16 Shadows: +100 Luminance: Red: -100 Orange: 0 Yellow: +100 Green:0 Aqua: 0 Blue: +100 Purple: -100 Magenta: +100 This is everything I did with this photograph, in regards to post processing. Its a lot more than I normally do, but I wanted this to jump at you with the morning sun that I saw that morning.In my camera bag
For most shots, I don't normally use my tripod, as I move around quite a lot, but I have it with me everywhere my camera goes, just in case. Every time I do use my tripod, I use my wireless remote shutter. I use this mainly to reduce the chance of camera shake/blur, but also to have a better chance to look around the area. Walking around the area gives perspective and the opportunity to see better angle potentials. One never knows when an opportunity will arise that a tripod would be indispensable for a particular shot. I have my 18-55mm kit lens that came with my camera and my 55-300mm lens. I also have my Nikon Speedlight SB-700. I always use this when flash is needed, over the built-in popup. The results are always 100 times better when flash is needed.Those are my staples for every shoot.Feedback
For photographing sunsets/rises, I would shoot darker next time. Having a slightly underexposed shot brings out sunset/rise colours far better than a "properly exposed" image. But further than that, I would use a hot shoe flash/speedlight with an amber jell. The amber brings out awesome yellows and oranges in sunset and sunrise photographs without the need to do a lot of post processing to obtain similar results. In general though, my advice to everyone is to have your cameras ready at all times. You never know when something will come up that just screams "shoot me"! Always shoot full manual, but full manual intimidates you, use one of your priority settings, instead of full automatic mode. With full automatic mode, you are the true photographer, not your camera.