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Gidday,

I finally got out on the weekend for a sunrise shoot and to try out the ND Grad filters that I bought about 6 months ago.

So off we went to the famous (and heavily photographed) North Narrabeen rock pool.

Sunrise was due @ 5.47am
I got there @ 5:10am and still missed half of the nice blue pre-dawn sky. Next time will have to go earlier.

All images were taken with HiTech 0.6 + 0.9 ND Grads + CPL filter. The CPL was causing lots of vignetting, but I couldn’t be bothered to take it off.





This was an accidental Panorama. When I took these two shots it was not my intention to stitch them together. When I was processing the RAW file it just looked like it could be stitched nicely. There is still work to be done, a quick clone job in the bottom right hand corner isn't right as yet.


Cheers

the colours captured in the last one is brilliant! Give it slightly a bit more contrast and print it big! Top work with the ND grad

Awesome stuff, Warwick.

The last one is great.

I would crop a bit off the bottom in the first one.

Wocka - excellent shots! My preferred one is the 2nd image..
It sure looks like it was a beautiful morning too. Getting there before 5:10am though...eeew .

wocka
#2 for me ... wished i had taken it

cheers rob

Those colours are brilliant! As they say, the early bird gets the worm.

The sunrise shoot has been on my to do list for a while, but I only recently purchased a tripod and haven't had a chance yet. Seeing these has inspired me just enough to see what I can do about getting to the coast this weekend in the early AM.

My pick of them is #3. For an accident, it turned out pretty okay.

Number one for me too....love the colder tones

Oooh these are nice! Its taken me a while to decide which one is my favourite... and yes I'm a girl so I'm allowed to have favourites...

The last one is the best in my opinion..

Bindii wrote:Oooh these are nice! Its taken me a while to decide which one is my favourite... and yes I'm a girl so I'm allowed to take a while to decide..

The last one is the best in my opinion..

fixed !

#3 for me

Works a treat. The last one is very good. YOu have also managed to maintain colour with the ND filters too.

Thanks for the response, I'm very pleased with the difference the ND Grads make to the image. I should have bought these ages ago.

Steve:
I chose the HiTech filters because the Cokin ones are meant to have a grey tinge to them and the Sing-Ray and Lee were just too expensive.

Cheers