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Well, its a nice location and easy to get to, had a very plain sky and was hoping for that little bit of cloud, but it did not come.

There are plenty of compositions available here and you can probably make the most of this location not matter what the conditions are like.

Suggestions good bad or ugly more than welcome.

A view looking north along the cliffs towards coogee.

Looking amazing there Gerry. I love the colours and the motion!

These are brilliant Gerry!

I think you are perfecting the combination of polariser and grad.

The colors are nice and warm and represent the sunrise that morning. Nice work in avoiding that ghastly empty sky we got given.

How did you avoid the darkening effect of the grad on the RHS cliff?

My fav would be #3 for it's composition. I think your position was much better to include the RHS cliff for added balance.

A great photographer once said, "you gotta work with what you are given"; You have illustrated this quite nicely!

Looking forward to the next excursion.

aim54x wrote:Looking amazing there Gerry. I love the colours and the motion!

ta cameron.

surenj wrote:I think you are perfecting the combination of polariser and grad.

fooled ya, no CPL here, only used the ND8 and the lee filters.

surenj wrote:Nice work in avoiding that ghastly empty sky we got given.

thats where this location is quite good, there are plenty of other options if the sky turns oridinary - thats what I was trying to do when I disappeared up the northern end, with limited success.

surenj wrote:How did you avoid the darkening effect of the grad on the RHS cliff?

always had it angled, you can see the cloud brightness change on the left side (or the cliff on the right side on the first), the cliff in final 3 is quite a light colour so a slight adjustment with a colour control point really makes teh cliff shine.

surenj wrote:A great photographer once said, "you gotta work with what you are given"; You have illustrated this quite nicely!

ta.

surenj wrote:Looking forward to the next excursion.

always, I am unfortunately hooked

could be interestign with these conditions

Gale Warning
For the Hunter Coast, Sydney Coast, Illawarra Coast, South Coast, and southern parts of Mid North Coast, from Smoky Cape to Gabo Island

West to northwesterly winds increasing to 20 to 30 knots between Seal Rocks and Port Hacking later this afternoon, then turning southwesterly 20 to 30 knots south of Smoky Cape on Thursday morning and reaching 30 to 40 knots offshore. Seas rising 2 to 3 metres and up to 4 metres offshore. NE swell 2.5 to 3.5 metres decreasing during the day. Isolated thunderstorms possible on Wednesday.