Water Walker Photographer sunrise with tripod
Digital Photography has come a long way, people can now take better photo becasue of the more sophisticated equipments….higher resolutions.
Sydney is FULL of the early riser (photographer who gets up at 4:30am searching for the ultimate sunrise shot), what a better way to do it than being near the water to watch the sun comes up. I am one of them. This is a weekly rountine for a lot of people i know. This is my Sydney, this is how it is NOW.
Oat
10-22mm ultra-wide…..dramatic enough?
Just another morning shoot, we were blessed with these beautiful clouds, plus low still tide to create these beautiful reflection at Long Reef, Sydney.
Have you ever wanted to walk on water?
Cold morning? with the right gear you can stay warm and even walk on water.
I didn’t have my speedlite with me so onboard camera flash will have to do, compensated to +2EV flash power.
Theory Behind The Shot:
Trying to keep the bg as underexpose as you can by metering it.
Ideally, what one should do is that meter the bg and see how much it is, then adjust the flash to match it, so then you get evenly expose photo. but no flash would match the sun…so yeah. This is why they use reflector to reflect light back to the subject – if you dont want to use a flash. – again i have no reflector.
If you meter the subject….the camera would think, "shit, it’s dark, let brighten it up" – then you get blown out sky. So you meter the background and use flash to light the subject
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Di Jenkins
fantastic shot!!!! instant FAV!!!!
Peter Redmond
Great photo and thanks for the tips! :-)
Bill Fonseca
Great shot Oat and good tips.
whatsthatbeeping
Love your strobist shots Oat.
Tim
Michael Douglass
terrific.
JennyMac
Fantastic! : )
John Kowalski
Fabulous shot! fabulous image, beautifully captured!!
Etienne RUGGER...
Very well done !!
Laura Zirkle
That’s just awesome! I love it!
Robert Armstrong
Totally awesome! Excellent work!
Mark Hughes
Wonderful Image!
Wayne Cook
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Christophe Testi
Incredible! Love it.
hangingpixels replied
Thank you.
Terri~Lynn Bealle
AWESOME!!!
hangingpixels replied
Cheers
Jigsawman
cool shot
Garth Smith 18 days ago
Saw this as your avatar and had to come for a larger look, great shot!
Birgitta 18 days ago
Soooo awesome… :)
Vikram Franklin 18 days ago
Fantastically dramatic shot!!
Onboard camera+UWA = serious flash vignetting on my D80 :-(
Lisawv 18 days ago
Awesome shot and the exposure is excellent. You did a terrific job on this shot. Love it.
Olwen Evans 18 days ago
Wonderfully managed, difficult light. Well done!