The only real sunrise happen on the first day we where on the IOM, it produced some glorious light ( I'll put up a B.Guillie in a couple of days) before it was complete dampened by low cloud.
This shot was taken about 10 minutes after sunrise at 4:43 in the morning. It was deliberately 3 stops under exposed to throw all the puffins into near darkness producing the silo effect.
It was shot using the 600mm so I could narrow down the FOV to pick out the brightest orange on the clouds and the sun was out of shot about 2 frame lenghts to the LHS.
Dropping the exposure of the orange sky also under exposes it and you get that deep burnt orange appearance, it also helps keep the shutter speeds up on the bird I was tracking as it made its way back to the other birds on the rock.
Again, because of the extreme under exposure and subsequent use of levels, not a shot I would use in a comp - more for simply a picture.
600mm/Tpod
8000'/400ASA/F4
Altered in Levels to suit mood. 2:1 crop full width
Works for me Tom! Great busy shot that catches the time of day well.
I know its hard not to get at this size and with so few colours but theres a slight sharpening halo on my monitor.
I down ressed this quickly from 5616pixels to 720 with bicubic sharpener, Photoshops suggested choice., which is about an x8 reduction. I don't think it did me any favours
It wasn't a problem when I had a the 1ds2 but maybe now its asking tooooooo much in one step, especially as you have said with a harsh colour transition image
Oh yeah that will not have helped, have you tried the first bite to about 30% with bilinear, and then to size with bicubic sharpen, I have found it usually works well with images of this type.
This is obviously a well thought out and first rate taken image.
Any attempt by me would I am sure end in disaster.
Also the time of day says if you want to get something different youve got to put some effort into it.
PS perhaps you just couldn't sleep.
Major
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18 repliesThis shot was taken about 10 minutes after sunrise at 4:43 in the morning. It was deliberately 3 stops under exposed to throw all the puffins into near darkness producing the silo effect.
It was shot using the 600mm so I could narrow down the FOV to pick out the brightest orange on the clouds and the sun was out of shot about 2 frame lenghts to the LHS.
Dropping the exposure of the orange sky also under exposes it and you get that deep burnt orange appearance, it also helps keep the shutter speeds up on the bird I was tracking as it made its way back to the other birds on the rock.
Again, because of the extreme under exposure and subsequent use of levels, not a shot I would use in a comp - more for simply a picture.
600mm/Tpod
8000'/400ASA/F4
Altered in Levels to suit mood. 2:1 crop full width
I know its hard not to get at this size and with so few colours but theres a slight sharpening halo on my monitor.
It wasn't a problem when I had a the 1ds2 but maybe now its asking tooooooo much in one step, especially as you have said with a harsh colour transition image
Dave
The one bird in flight, really makes the shot work.
Rob
Love the tones and contrast!
Well done!
Greetings,
Jeroen Stel
I spent the winter there with Grey seals, a completely different feel and look to the place at that time of the year.
Thanks for sharing,
Brett.
Stephen
only one thing i find distracting is the dark lower part of the background (presumably the sea)
Any attempt by me would I am sure end in disaster.
Also the time of day says if you want to get something different youve got to put some effort into it.
PS perhaps you just couldn't sleep.
Major
Like the inclusion of the flying bird.
Great lesson in doing silhouettes
All the best
Rob