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Dappled sunlight lights a path threading between tall trees through the Kondalilla National Park, Queensland Australia.
Dappled sunlight lights a path threading between tall trees through the Kondalilla National Park, Queensland Australia.
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Dappled Path

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A path dappled with sunshine threads through the trees in the Kondalilla National Park near Mapleton in Queensland Australia

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  • Planning
  • Technical

How this shot came about.

Another early morning start during a Noosa holiday had me targeting the Kondalilla National Park as a potential source of interesting shots.

Imagery from within a forest has always been a fascination for me - a fascination which stretches all the way back to early childhood and those magical faery realms which were always conjured in my mind when I entered a copse of trees. I'm particularly drawn to old deciduous woods with prevalent moss and decay but young vibrant eucalyptus woods present their own unique splendors too.

We had driven the hour or so from the apartment arriving before dawn at the entrance to the park, My friend Tom had come with me on this particular morning and I think he was quite bemused at the sight of me lugging my camera gear around in a padded suitcase - it was early days and I was yet to discover the virtues of a photography rucksack!

We spent a couple of hours moving around the woods and I did capture a couple of interesting shots but nothing of any great note.

We were on our way back to the car when the sun came flooding through the trees ahead of us and this shot of light and shadow presented itself on the path ahead. I setup and took the exposures but we didn't linger as, I recall, breakfast beckoned and we were both quite hungry.

I love the play of light and shadow in this image as well as the intensity of the backlit leaves.  

Shot Location

The Shot

This was an opportune shot taken during an early morning excursion to Kondalilla National Park near Noosa. Planning, in this instance, was more about the reading of National Parks websites than anything more technical. 

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Gear

Camera: Canon EOS 7D

Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 IS

Storage: SanDisk Extreme Pro CF UDMA 7 64Gb

Ballhead: Manfrotto 498RC2

Tripod: Manfrotto 055XPROB

Cable Release: Promote

ND Filter: None

Exposures

Count: 7

HDR Count: 7 exposures per shot

Aperture: f9.0

ISO: 100

Focal Length: 32 mm

EV values: -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3

Shutter: 1/30, 1/15, 1/8, 1/4, 0"5, 1"

Filters

ND Filter: Not used

Gradient Filter: false

Polarizer: false

Image

Rows: 1

Shots: 0

HDR Shots: 1

Aspect: Portrait

Arrangement: 1x1

Post Production

Basic Workflow

  • I used Lightroom to stitch the 7 HDR exposures together into a single image
  • I used Photoshop's spot healing tool to remove quite a few sensor artifacts from the image

Image Adjustment

  • There was a contrast and clarity adjustment to the trees and the foreground path
  • A very slight push in the greens of the foliage to bring up their intensity
    • Most of the heavy lifting came from the HDR exposures in this regard
  • The exposure on the distant path was reduced as it was close to blowing out
  • The image was cropped in to bring the edges of the path to the bottom corners of the image

A graphic of the shot's layout structure

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