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An image which captures the last day of the existence of the old walkway to Hellsgate at Noosa in Queensland, Australia.
An image which captures the last day of the existence of the old walkway to Hellsgate at Noosa in Queensland, Australia.
Noosa Path
Noosa Path
Noosa Path
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Noosa Path

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An image which captures the last day of the existence of the old walkway to Hellsgate at Noosa in Queensland Australia. I had run this path out to Hellsgate for 18 years and wanted a memento before it was gone forever.

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How this shot came about.

For 20 years we made an annual pilgrimage to Noosa in Queensland for an Easter break. One of those comfortable holidays - always staying in the same place with a familiar routine smoothing out the edges of our days away.

For me, part of that routine included an early morning run along the boardwalk to the national park and then on to the Hellsgate penninsula about 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) from the apartment. My Hellsgate Sunrise shot was taken on the way out one day and every day on my way back I would swing by the local coffee shop to pick up coffees for all the adults of our little group.

For 18 years this was the unbroken routine of my Noosa holiday until one Thursday morning, while out running, I stopped to chat to a photographer who was set up shooting along the boardwalk. Much to my disappointment he told me that the boardwalk was to be ripped up starting the following Monday and be replaced by a more modern pathway!

This shot, then, is an indulgence to my desire for routine so that, even in the absence of the original path, I will always have an image to remind me of the path and my nearly twenty years of early morning meditations at Hellsgate.

Shot Location

The Shot

Once I knew that the boardwalk replacement project was to start on the following Monday I carried my tripod and camera to a suitable vantage point on the path and took this shot

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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: 4

HDR Count: 0 exposures per shot

Aperture: f8.0

ISO: 100

Focal Length: 18 mm

EV values: 0

Shutter: 0"5, 0"6, 0"8, 1"

Filters

ND Filter: Not used

Gradient Filter: false

Polarizer: false

Image

Rows: 2

Shots: 4

HDR Shots: 0

Aspect: Portrait

Arrangement: 2x2

Post Production

Basic Workflow

  • I used Lightroom to stitch the 4 exposures together into a 4 image mosaic
    • Deghosting was set to high to deal with artifacts in the higher tree branches
  • 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 in the background
  • I used Photoshop's spot healing tool to remove many, many leaves from the surface of the boardwalk
    • This is the first instance of my leaving a lone leaf in the image 
  • I applied a masked highpass filter to improve the detail in the railings, planking and the bark of the larger trees
  • The image was cropped in to tighten the composition

A graphic of the shot's layout structure

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