A New Tomorrow

Glad you like it.. thanks for ensuring we survived the drive.. haha :)

Cheers Stef, can’t be too bad if you approve – I’ll have a play with the sky and see how it goes.

Patricia, thanks so much for the kind words, I’m having a hard time kicking my pride down and keeping it where it belongs :D Glad you like it.. the sunrise this morning was unbeleivable, i’m sure you know what I mean. What a magic place. Cheers again!

Cheers Trish, peace to you sister!

Awesome! Thanks again :D

Cheers Dawn I’m rather happy about it :)

Cheers Peter! I’m pleased you like it.

Thank you Stevie, it’s great to hear that from you – I’m a fan of your similar work! Very appreciated mate.

Thanks Melanie glad you like it! I made a few tweaks earlier today, but it’s final as is now. Thanks for taking a look and take it easy :D

Thank you :)

Thanks, cheers for stopping by :)

Thanks mate, and for the favorite! Living on the gold coast you should get down there one morning you’d love it. Cheers.

Thanks Delany – and for the favorite. You should definitely try and get to a coast sometime, be it sunrise or sunset – it’s beautiful… I had never seen anything like it, and this shot cannot portray what it was truly like.

Thanks for your interest in my work! I’m glad you like some of it :)

Thanks for the encouragement and the favorite Rich I appreciate it! Your work looks great.

Thanks Andrew, I’m glad you like it mate – your work is pretty inspiring yourself, cheers!

Thanks so much, glad you enjoy it.

Thanks Sally! If it encourages you, I’m a beginner too, minus the classes – so I look forward to seeing some equally as pleasant sunrise shots from you soon ;)

Thank you Barb, some of your portraiture is great too – keep it up!

Cheers Ian! I gotta admit, the most effort this shot took was getting up for sunrise.. something I’m not too great at doing. This was the first position of that morning I started shooting at, I just walked up and the opportunity was more or less laid out for me, was just a matter of finding the more correct camera settings and processing the shots back home. Cheers mate!

Too true, cheers again mate.

Thanks Trudi :)

Cheers Derek, appreciate the comment mate.

Thanks mate, cheers for checking out my work. I try for some wittier titles, though I’m gonna run out of clever one day :D

Thank you Sean for looking at many of my images, this is probably my proudest moment. As I develope I hope to creative similar landscapes to these and the others you’ve seen.

Thanks Torfinn, and for checking out my work.

Cheers Rimmy, thanks for checking it out.

Thanks Cheryl, I’ll definitely give it a go with a similar landscape one day soon :)

Thanks Sharon :)

You got it, it sure was an incredibly morning. By FAR the most incredible sunrise i’ve witnessed. Thanks for checking out my work Eivor :)

Hi Jason, cheers for the comment again mate! This isn’t actually a HDR, but a blending of exposures using a similar method. More or less just getting the best highlight detail from one shot, the best shadow detail from other shots etc, instead of getting that often overdone obviously-a-HDR look to it. Thanks again, cheers for looking :)

I think it’s really useful when you want to use multiple images but you don’t want that HDR look. There are tutorials to do it in photoshop, where you have more control, or there’s a function in Photomatix – if you’ve used that for HDR before, which does most of it for you. That’s what I used for this shot.

With a raw? Should be no worries mate, good luck. After you do the blend you’ll just need to tweak the levels a little to normalize things, eg I had to darken the sky in this one a tad as it was a little too light originally, not how it was when I shot it. Good luck.

Thanks so much, some of your macro shots are awesome, keep it up :)

Mate completely, we woke at 4am to drive down there, had only had about 2 hours sleep, but it was a pretty incredible sunrise, never seen anything like it.

Also, how is that.. as soon as you know you have to get up particularly early, your brain tells you not to sleep. Bloody convenient that is :D

Cheers for the comment Craig.

The 450D is excellent Bogdan. That said, this is my first DSLR – I cannot comment on any others, except for the 400D which the 450D preceeds. If you haven’t had an DSLR before I’d definitely suggest the 450D, perhaps the newer 500D if you like – but the extra 3MP aren’t worth it IMO.. the 450D has everything you need. What are you using at the moment?

Also! Thanks for the favorite of this shot, I’m glad you like it – beautiful coastal areas here.

I was about to say, don’t skimp and get the 400D, because the 450D has spot metering – which is a HUGE help. I think it’s fine anyway, I’ve never used a 350, but have used a 400. The 450D screen is 3”, so it’s easily to see pics. It also has live view, though I can’t say I use it often. If I were you, I think the 450D is a great upgrade, especially with the price being lowered a little now the 500D has been out for a few months.

Cheers again Bogdan, happy shopping!

Thanks for the favorite Mel. I had never been to Currumbin beach before, the most incredible sunrise I’ve ever seen, lovely area that I know I’ll be revisiting more than once. Ta :)

Thanks David, i’m very happy with the outcome.

Thanks for favoriting it, I’m glad you like it.

Thanks again! I just read your profile, inspirational indeed and I’m glad you can make a living out of your craft. Thanks again for the kind words :)

Thanks again mate, appreciate the kind words.

Thanks!

Thanks so much again, I’m glad you like my work.

Thanks again Jenny!

Thanks Pam, one of my favorites.

Thanks Pris, and for the fave! :)

Thanks Kieren, you’ve got a pretty sweet gallery yourself mate.

Thanks Whitney for checking out my stuff too :)

I think you definitely should Karen, easily the most enjoyable sunrise i’ve ever witnessed – I almost didn’t want to take shots it was that incredible.

Thanks Dave! I think so too mate, thanks for checking them out :) I beleive it was 6:24.. I could be mistaken, but I’m quite sure that was the exact time. We got up at 4am to make sure we got there in time to scope out the area and get set up which was LOTS of fun ;)

Andrew thank you again for the kind comments, and for the faves. I appreciate you checking out my work aswell.

Thanks for the favorite Malcolm, glad you like this one mate!

Thanks muchly! Glad you feel that way about it :)

Thanks again for your support :)

Yo Forest girl! Thanks again, this is probably my pinacle moment so far :) How goes the road trip?

Thanks, I appreciate it alot :) Glad to have your continued feedback!

Haha so am I, and thanks again for the kind comments :D

Thanks again mate, if you ever make it up this way you should definitely try and make it there for a sunrise!

Thanks Josie! I appreciate the kind words. I’m still relatively new and learning more each day, so your input and encouragement is great.

Thanks you!

Thank you Sonya for stopping by.

Thanks for checking it out Stuart :)

Thanks Helena!

Thanks a million, i’m very happy with this one.

Thank you :)

Thank you again Svetlana!

Thanks mate!

Thanks for checking it out :)

Thanks for checking it out! I appreciate it :)

Thanks again Daniel, appreciate the kind comments mate.

The most beautiful sunrise i’ve ever seen Michael, it was incredible. Thanks for checking out my work also :)

Thanks Sandy for dropping by! :)

Hi Simon, thanks for the comments mate, appreciate it.

Thanks so much, I’m a big fan of your work :)

Many thanks Elana, really happy you approve of it :)

Thanks Dorothy, glad you like it.

Thanks once again :)

Thanks David for the kind words! Mate you should try it, you’ll love it. I never imagined this would turn out so well, this was only my 2nd time ever shooting a sunrise. My advice is to find a great place, and get there a bit before sunrise so you can scope out the area and find the best shooting spots, that way you can get as many different perspectives in as possible once it starts rising!

Thanks again mate.
Jason

Thanks for checking it out, I’m so pleased you like it :)

It sure is Di, thanks for checking out my work :)

Thank you Richard! this is my best work.

Thanks Barb, this is one of my favourite pieces of work. The Sigma is a great lens, I ended up splashing out on the more expensive canon in the end though! Thanks again.

Thanks again Sharon, happy that you like it. Was an incredible sight, a sunrise like no other.

Wow thanks tj, I’m stoked! Good luck! :)

Thanks Scott.

Thanks Jon, appreciate your kind words and the favourites mate!

It sure was.. I regard this shot as one of my best, and yet it is actually almost disappointing to look at this photo when reminiscing of that sunrise.. it just pales in comparison. Thanks again :)

Thanks again Yvette, a favourite of mine. :)

Thanks Chris, a favorite of mine.

Thanks for checking out my work also Reece :)

Thanks so much for having a look, glad you like it.

Thanks for stopping by Wayne, glad you like it.

Thanks so much for checking out my work also :)

Thanks mate, appreciate the comment!

Cheers Dan, appreciate you checking out my work mate!

Many thanks :)

Thanks Dave, truly appreciate you checking out my work also.

Thanks for checking it out! And I will :)

Many thanks for checking it out John, glad you approve. :)

Cheers Daniel. I used auto exposure bracketing for this shit Daniel, a feature in most modern dslr’s these days, probably somewhere in yours too. Basically you can set your camera to take 3 shots on the one press of the shutter release, 1 with the the 0EV (normal/supposedly proper exposure) and one shot either side of 0, at a point of your choosing. You should see if you can do the same process with yours mate.

No worries mate, as with just about everything it comes down to light, of course a smaller aperture will enable you to make a longer exposure, hence why this sunrise was rather successfull. Good luck mate!

Thanks so much for checking it out, glad you like it :) Hope to see some of your work soon!

Thanks Ann, and I hear you about the getting up thing.. only done sunrise there once but it sure was worth it – I’m waiting for the sunrise times to be a little more agreeable again before I try again, bit of a further drive living in Brissie. Thanks again for looking :)

I know what you mean though, luckily my girlfriend is a fellow photog and we do alot of trips together. It can get pretty windy down there before sunrise too! Spend half the time shivering on the rocks.

Lucky bugger, not having to brave the winds! Yeah I sure am lucky, you can check out her profile here if you like. Thanks again Ann, enjoy your weekend.

Many thanks for looking :)

Thanks, appreciate the comment :)

Cheers Brendan, appreciate you taking a peek.

Many thanks Martina, glad you like it :)

It’s a useful tool when used in the right way, no doubt about it. Thanks for the kind comment Jane, glad you like the image :)

Many thanks Voltaire, glad you like it mate – it’s my prodigy.

Thanks for your comment, i’m glad that you like it.

THank you Olga :)

Cheers Andrew, a favourite of mine buddy.

Many thanks Sharon, I truly appreciate it!

Thanks David, this work is my prodigy so to speak. Apprecaite it :)

Ta Simone, appreciate you checking my work back :)

Thank you Shea :)

Thanks so much Heather, glad you like it.