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Early morning sunlight lights up the clouds resting on the hilltops surrounding Lake Wanaka on the South Island of New Zealand.
Early morning sunlight lights up the clouds resting on the hilltops surrounding Lake Wanaka on the South Island of New Zealand.
Wanaka Morning
Wanaka Morning
Wanaka Morning
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Wanaka Morning

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A panorama catching the early morning sunlight as it lights up the clouds resting on the hilltops surrounding Lake Wanaka on the South island of New Zealand. Taken at the shore line of the lake on the beach to the south of the town.

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How this shot came about.

During our 2017 tour of New Zealand's South Island one of our targets was the climbing of Roy's Peak near Lake Wanaka. Given the likely duration of the climb and the fact that we were based in Queenstown we headed off very early one morning to drive over the mountains through Cardrona to Wanaka as this was the most direct route.

As we dropped down out of the mountains to reach the lake level the road straightened out leaving us with a direct view onto the lake from several kilometers away. The still morning was leaving a beautifully reflective surface on the lake and the clouds seemed to drape themselves across the distant hills.

As we got to the main road we found ourselves opposite a pebbly lakeside beach and stopped to take this shot. I set up the camera on the tripod down at the water's edge and took 4 or 5 panoramas. This shot is a cropping of one of those images.

The clouds and the hazy hillsides in this shot combine with the Monet-esque reflections on the water's surface to make for a really inviting panorama which I appreciate every day since it hangs on the wall in our stairwell at home. 

Shot Location

This Shot

The Photographer's Ephemeris in combination with the topological maps and the local weather service gave me all the data I needed to plan this shot. However the duration of the trip between Queenstown and Wanaka made it very difficult to arrive at Lake Wanaka during Golden Hour but we did manage to arrive not long after.


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: None

Exposures

Count: 42

HDR Count: 7 exposures per shot

Aperture: f10

ISO: 100

Focal Length: 32 mm

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

Shutter: 1/2000, 1/1000, 1/500, 1/250, 1/125, 1/60, 1/30

Filters

ND Filter: Not used

Gradient Filter: false

Polarizer: false

Image

Rows: 1

Shots: 0

HDR Shots: 6

Aspect: Portrait

Arrangement: 1x6

Post Production

Basic Workflow

  • I used Lightroom to stitch the 42 HDR exposures together into a 6 image mosaic
  • I used Photoshop's spot healing tool to remove quite a few sensor artifacts from the image
  • I passed the image through Topaz DeNoiseAI removing CCD noise from the sky, clouds and water 

Image Adjustment

  • There was a contrast and clarity adjustment to the hillside in the background
  • I used a luminosity mask to adjust the luminosity of the clouds' highlights
  • The hillsides were sharpened with Topaz SharpenAI
  • The contrast of the clouds was adjusted to bring out some details
  • I used Photoshop's spot healing tool to remove several garish red buoys from the lake's surface
  • The image was cropped in to tighten the composition

A graphic of the shot's layout structure

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