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Joined the FOCUS Flickr group for a dawn seascape shoot at South Newport Tidal Pool over the weekend followed by some great breakfast company at a local cafe.

It was a lovely morning to be out - the weather was very kind - a T-Shirt morning even at 6AM, very little wind and some nice cloud formations in the sky.

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This first is a 2 minute long exposure at a quarter past 6 (about 35 minutes before sunrise) - taken with the 16-35/4 at 18mm @ f/11 and ISO 100 - with the Lee 0.9 hard grad and the Heliopan CPL

Newport Streaks


For the following I had to bump the ISO (to 800) and open the aperture a little so I could get a faster shutter speed - I wanted texture in the water movement and not misty milk this time

Peachy


Just on sunrise and we were getting varied colour in the sky at this stage

Stranded


and a little after sunrise the clouds were getting heavier but we had a nice show of god rays on the horizon

Ebb and Flow


and finally I returned to an earlier composition I liked with the rocks in the sand along the beach and coastline - and now with a moody sky and the conditions right for the shutter speed I wanted. 16-35/4 at 18mm and 1/4sec @ f/11 and ISO 100

Stormy Coast

Great set. No. 2 has the best foreground I have seen in ages.
Nice
Robert

They're all good, but nos 1,2, and 5 are sublime. These are seriously good landscapes Rodney.

(I need to learn how to take these water shots, but it means getting up early. I only live 5 minutes drive from any number of pristine beaches. I admit it, I am a slacko.)

great colours all round and the colour and water movement around those foreground rocks... just out of this world !!!

No 2 for me is spot on, love the colours and the water

Like the others, #2 is the standout here for me as well - that sweeping S of white foam running down the image holds the eye in a way that's missing in the other similar shots,