Epic Day Out - Part 1 - Austinmer Sunrise...

[Remorhaz]

Joined three friends for an epic day of photography. Our gourmet feast of photographic delights included a 3:30AM start, a sunrise seascape session, a day shooting at an air show, a sunset seascape session, a light painting session in an abandoned railway tunnel with a post midnight finish.

Part One we visit the lazy coastal town of Austinmer (about an hours drive south of Sydney) for a dawn seascape shoot at their tidal pools.

I'd be interested in any post processing suggestions for any of these

Morning Refresh


and just on sunrise

Where Dawn Treads


about 15 minutes after sunrise (6:45AM) we got a second chance with the sun breaking through the lower clouds and underlighting the high clouds

Second Chance is Golden


Later still (about 50 minutes after sunrise - 7:20AM) we got awesome God rays streaming down off the coast through a really interesting pattern of clouds in the sky

Gods Hand, Stormy Surge


The Flow

[Murray Foote]

Some great images there. The first two, I think it would help to make the blue in the sky darker. My eye tends to go out there rather than where it should. The last two, I think more contrast in the foam may help.

[Remorhaz]

Some great images there. The first two, I think it would help to make the blue in the sky darker. My eye tends to go out there rather than where it should. The last two, I think more contrast in the foam may help.

Thanks Murray - and I totally agree on the second count. I'm still a little ambivalent on the first two - I'll see what lowering the colour temp of the sky in the first two do for me - thanks

[Remorhaz]

A minor rework of the first:



and a more major rework of the last:

[Murray Foote]

Both greatly improved, I think.

[zafra52]

I agree, much better.