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Golden morning light reflecting off a smooth sea along the Hellsgate path near Noosa in Queensland, Australia.
Golden morning light reflecting off a smooth sea along the Hellsgate path near Noosa in Queensland, Australia.
Hellsgate Sunrise
Hellsgate Sunrise
Hellsgate Sunrise
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Hellsgate Sunrise

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Dramatic clouds with golden morning light reflecting off a smooth sea along the Hellsgate path near Noosa in Queensland Australia. This one took quite a few attempts as I wanted to use a neutral density filter to smooth the sea and take an HDR shot to manage the dynamic range of the shot.

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How this shot came about.

This shot is taken from the Boiling Pot lookout on the path through the Noosa National Park which takes me on my morning run to the Hellsgate peninsula.

Normally I would run past this point unencumbered by camera gear but on this morning I made a decision to walk out encumbered to see if I could combine HDR techniques with ND filter to capture the light and smooth the sea simultaneously.

This shot is the result of a lot of experimentation as I attempted to establish the right set of exposures to meet the need to manage the very wide EV range in the shot from the shadows between the rocks to the sunlit sky.

The longest exposure is 7 seconds which got me the shadows and the shortest is 1 second which got me the sky exposure thanks to the ND filter I used.

Shot Location

The Shot

I timed my arrival at the Boiling Pot vantage point to coincide with the sunrise - thank you The Photographer's Ephemeris. 

Cloud Free Night provided cloud cover data which supported an early morning excursion from where we were staying in Noosa.

The Photographer's Ephemeris showing the shot location

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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: NISI

Exposures

Count: 5

HDR Count: 5 exposures per shot

Aperture: f11

ISO: 100

Focal Length: 18 mm

EV values: 0

Shutter: 1", 2", 5", 6", 7"

Filters

ND Filter: 3 stops, 5 stops, 7 stops, 9 stops, 15 stops

Gradient Filter: false

Polarizer: false

Image

Rows: 1

Shots: 0

HDR Shots: 1

Aspect: Portrait

Arrangement: 1x1

Post Production

Basic Workflow

  • Using different ND filters I ended up with 12 different exposures right across the HDR range
  • I picked the best 7
  • 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
  • I passed the image through Topaz DeNoiseAI 

Image Adjustment

  • There was a contrast and clarity adjustment to the rocks in the foreground
  • The sky was sharpened with Topaz SharpenAI
  • A very slight push in the yellows of the sky
    • Most of the heavy lifting came from the HDR exposures in this regard
  • The contrast of the clouds was adjusted to bring out some details
    • especially those fingers reaching down from center shot
  • The image was cropped in to bring the rocks into the bottom right hand corner of the image

A graphic of the shot's layout structure

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