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Gerry - this was that session at Long Bay (next to the Golf Course) at Malabar we'd kind of impromptu planned the night before a couple weeks back

Unfortunately Gerry had a bit of a family emergency and couldn't make it but I was up and there so I figured I'd see how I'd go - the clouds were looking a little non-existent but you never know...

Locked


We're just about on sunrise just over behind the headland on the other side of Long Bay here

The Wedge


and then I went in search of another pool for some foreground interest. Here with the suns rays peeking over the far headland of Malabar

Long Rays


With the image above I was playing around with focus stacking landscapes - I'd taken three shots at f/9 - one focused for the immediate close foreground, another for the rocks in the mid distance and the final shot for the far headland and horizon (infinity). In photoshop I layered the three images and manually blended them using layer masks

Personally I'm not sure it did much better than just taking the single frame at f/11 - f/16 at this focal length but it's goot to experiement and I was also able to get a little more DR by also adjusting the exposure across the frames too (even with the use of a 3 stop reverse grad as I was using here)

Hm, i think the place I was referring to was a bit further round the golf course, in any case, i think i like the last image the best, I am a sucker for images with a nice pool/puddle in foreground and in this case the sky has some nice interest.

Dunno whether the focus stacking has achieved much, at this low resolution you will never notice imo. I do have a shot from a recent session where the sand ripples in the foreground are slightly OOF and suspect this could have been a candidate for focus stacking.

With the last image, try and adjust the colour balance on the lower portion of the frame, it feels like it has a greenish cast to it.

FYI tickles is better, albeit still blowing out lots of snot.