I’m runner up in the Landscape category for the second year in a row! Really stocked, especially considering how high the level is again this year, some incredible photos. Thanks to the guys at Capture magazine for putting this together, the mag is on the shelves, go and get yourself a copy!
The North end of Maroubra is one of the most photographed portion of Sydney’s coastline, but sunrises like this one are rare. The combination with the right tides and sea conditions is a one in a year opportunity. The rocks were wet enough to reflect the intense red and yellow colours and this small arch seemed to come out of the landscape like I have never seen it before.
To produce this image I used a Nikon D800e and a wide angle lens (Nikkor 16-35mm). The D800 does well with dynamic scenes and I could get a well balanced image using graduated neutral density filters. The post processing includes slight exposure adjustments using luminosity masks in Photoshop, as well as corrections in colour balance, saturation, and sharpness. The result is a very colourful image, probably the most colourful within my recent photographs, but a testimony to the intensity and drama of that particular morning.
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Hayman Island is located at the North West end of the Whitsundays in Queensland, Australia. We sailed from Airlie Beach to the Whitsundays and I took this photo as we were about to head back overnight. Dolphin Point is an incredible place, I liked this rock covered with trees and attached to the rest of the island by a small stretch of sand. I packed my equipment on a sea kayak and paddled to the nearby cliff as the sun was coming down. I climbed to a good view point and waited for the show to begin.
To capture the change in light and colours I blended two long exposures taken 30 minutes apart. The first one not long after sunset at low ISO (200) to get the details in the rocks and the glow on the horizon, and the second one at high ISO (3200) as the stars started to appear. In the end this is quite a different image than the usual blue sky, white sand post card shot of the Whitsundays, but it is true to the moment and the beauty and calm of that night, definitely one of my favourite images from the last few months.
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