Malabar...
Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 10:57 amAnother impromptu early morning session - this time at Malabar
Suren was supposed to join Gerry and I but he messaged me at 3:40AM indicating his battery was bust
So it was another very early start with a 4:30AM meetup at the carpark near Long Bay
C&C always appreciated...
Before 5AM and about 40 minutes to sunrise - the view looking north towards Malabar and the city along the coast in the distance - those cliffs just to the left of middle are where we headed to next
What comes Before
Found this lovely patch of colourful succulent right on the cliff edge to use as some foreground interest as well as this small spindly shrub.
Looking south along the coast almost 20 minutes to sunrise with a natural long exposure
The Little Tree
With fantastic pastel tones out to sea our succulent made for an ideal set of leading lines in this view a little north west along the clifftops - a couple minutes to sunrise
Spidering
Sunrise itself wasn't giving us much along the coast at Malabar just north of Long Bay so I switched to the Lee BigStopper to create some funkiness with the heavy swell in the ocean crashing on the rocky coastline.
About twenty minutes after sunrise the sun finally broke above the clouds and lit up the coastline and the rocks below us and the BigStopper did it's thing (this one is actually the blend of two separate exposures)
Mystic Flow
Suren was supposed to join Gerry and I but he messaged me at 3:40AM indicating his battery was bust
So it was another very early start with a 4:30AM meetup at the carpark near Long Bay
C&C always appreciated...
Before 5AM and about 40 minutes to sunrise - the view looking north towards Malabar and the city along the coast in the distance - those cliffs just to the left of middle are where we headed to next
What comes Before
Found this lovely patch of colourful succulent right on the cliff edge to use as some foreground interest as well as this small spindly shrub.
Looking south along the coast almost 20 minutes to sunrise with a natural long exposure
The Little Tree
With fantastic pastel tones out to sea our succulent made for an ideal set of leading lines in this view a little north west along the clifftops - a couple minutes to sunrise
Spidering
Sunrise itself wasn't giving us much along the coast at Malabar just north of Long Bay so I switched to the Lee BigStopper to create some funkiness with the heavy swell in the ocean crashing on the rocky coastline.
About twenty minutes after sunrise the sun finally broke above the clouds and lit up the coastline and the rocks below us and the BigStopper did it's thing (this one is actually the blend of two separate exposures)
Mystic Flow