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Gerry and I had an interesting time photographing the sunrise at southhead today. He has detailed this experience quite well here.
http://www.dslrusers.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=37977&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a#p401975

I struggled alot with composition. I have learnt that HDR is not a good idea if there is significant flare in the image!

I agree that one needs a lens wider than 17mm [which is not really wide on a crop]. I wished that the graduated filter had a ND8 version. [I didn't have a non graduated ND filter or polariser]
I did have a infrared filter however....

[Can anyone tell me what the flare in the original cokin filters is like? Ebay spoofs are really bad I think. or was it my lens.. Hmm...]

For your C&C. Next time I think I can get better composition.

I struggled alot with composition. I have learnt that HDR is not a good idea if there is significant flare in the image!

yeah, the flare is a real pain, i noticed alot of my shots had flare, but only noticed when i reviewed them at home...

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Regards the composition, given that we had never been there I think we did ok, I am sure next time it will easier to pre-plan the types of compositions one is looking for - I did not have any particular composition in mind going into that one this morning, however next time i will try be more prepared.

I really like that image with the fishing boat, that could well be mistaken for a shot off Boome WA! The silhouette style is quite a good option for this location.

Great images there Surenj, I really like the colours and the silhouettes of the last three. As for your questions regarding flare from Cokin Filters....in my experience, I have not noticed any.

As for 17mm on a crop sensor, I am in the same boat as you. There is always pano stitching!

Thanks Gerry and Cameron.

biggerry wrote:I am sure next time it will easier to pre-plan the types of compositions one is looking for

I think so. I definitely need some fluffy waves next time. [without too much flare] BTW I think the flare in your shot is ok. Mine pretty much ruined the HDR attempts!

aim54x wrote:As for 17mm on a crop sensor, I am in the same boat as you. There is always pano stitching!

I am looking in to the Canon 10-22. For pano stitching you need to move back and zoom in; In this case, that may have been tricky.

No light painting Surenj?

Like the first of these but find the blurred photographer (assume Gerry) a bit distracting and would clone him out. You still have the fisherman there for interest. Wouldn't mind seeing the colour version of this one as well.
The 2nd one is also good but this is where I thought you might have used a bit of light painting to enhance the big lump of black in the foreground

Ray

Jenno wrote:No light painting Surenj?

I tried, but it didn't look very good! Just looked out of place. + my light wasn't really powerful enough because the ambient exposure was short. Next time perhaps with a more powerful light.

Jenno wrote:Wouldn't mind seeing the colour version of this one as well.

This was with an infra red filter. The colour version is red!

Beautiful red and orange glows here

biggerry wrote:I really like that image with the fishing boat

It is my favourite, too. Great composition and colours.

biggerry wrote:that could well be mistaken for a shot off Boome WA!

Only it would have to be a sunset shot. Do fishermen go out at sunset?

There is always pano stitching!

yeah panos would be good, but with all that water moving around it gets tricky, I did try a couple but you really have to chose your composition carefully or you will be manually plugging in control points...

Only it would have to be a sunset shot. Do fishermen go out at sunset?

correct and depends on whether they are fishermen or drug smuggelrs..

No light painting Surenj?

believe it or not the sunrise crept up on us very quickly and there was not much time to experiment and get things right, I had a few goes but the lighting was too blotchy to be anything decent..

Gerry) a bit distracting and would clone him out.

Love the colors in 2,3 & 4 and you did well to make it look like a different place in each
well domne
DebT

Thankx Deb. I changed the hues in one of them...

biggerry wrote: No light painting Surenj?
believe it or not the sunrise crept up on us very quickly and there was not much time to experiment and get things right, I had a few goes but the lighting was too blotchy to be anything decent..

Definitely. Still, I think we got there as early as practical. Next time, we could turn up a little later as we know where exactly to go.

biggerry wrote:yeah panos would be good, but with all that water moving around it gets tricky, I did try a couple but you really have to chose your composition carefully or you will be manually plugging in control points...

I haven't quite got the hang of panos yet. I thought about it but didn't think this scenery would benefit as only parts of it was strong in composition. I suppose one could pano stich two images rather than more.

Thanks everyone for their comments.