San Hipolito Sunrise

Gallery: LandscapePosted March 14, 2010183 views11 comments

San Hipolito is a remote beach on the southern coast of the Vizcaino peninsula on the Pacific coast of Baja. Normally I would be up well before sunrise to set up the tripod, but on this occasion I was snoring away in my tent, woke up, and saw the show disappearing before my eyes. Knowing the light would only last a minute or two more I just hand-held a 2 stop GND up to the lens and shot without the tripod at ISO 200. Seconds later the show was over. Sucks to be caught unprepared, but its still pretty sharp.

Canon 40D, f11, 1/125

Comments

11 comments

Comment posted by Catherine Reilly on March 14, 2010 at 3:45 AM

Not bad at all for such fast work with your eyes barely opened! Love the sky with the beams and clouds. The shoreline doesn't seem as impressive by comparison. Good comp. Perhaps a little light-handed fine tuning of the color would pop this out of its comfort zone.

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Comment posted by R.Bill Moser on March 14, 2010 at 6:24 AM

It's not bad for such "fast" work and hand held. Love the sky here and the sunbeams. Nice comp.

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Comment posted by Bill Maile on March 14, 2010 at 8:05 AM

Very nice sunrise scene!! Is it my eye, the cliffs in the BG, or can it use a slight CW rotation?? Who knows, still a pretty scene.

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Comment posted by István Molnár on March 14, 2010 at 9:07 AM

Wonderful.
lstván

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Comment posted by Stan Rose on March 14, 2010 at 5:24 PM

Terrific subject and comp! The processing needs a little tweaking: it seems a bit 'posterized' (contrast?) and the light on the sand should not be brighter than the sky above, maybe brighten the sky a bit.

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Comment posted by David Schoen on March 14, 2010 at 5:49 PM

very pretty. nicely placed. wonderful sky. perhaps a tad more detail in the shadows

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Comment posted by Vance Gese on March 14, 2010 at 7:27 PM

Outstanding sunrise. The rays are remarkable and really like how the pebbles glow. Great image, especially being as this was sort of from the hip from your description.

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Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on March 14, 2010 at 8:33 PM

Good show . . . both by the light and you. Quite and image for no tripod and a hand-held filter.

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Comment posted by Eva McDermott on March 14, 2010 at 8:40 PM

The rays, sunstar, and reflected color and light are spectacular Daniel. Liking it as is...

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Comment posted by Ben Horne on March 14, 2010 at 10:58 PM

The rays of light are very effective here. They suck my eye right into the scene. The rocks on the beach mimic the clouds quite nicely.

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Comment posted by Floris van Breugel on March 15, 2010 at 2:24 AM

The rocks/shells and the clouds match so nicely that this works really well!

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