Epic Day Out – Part 1 – Austinmer @ Sunrise…
by Rodney Campbell on May.10, 2013, under Life, Photography
Joined three friends for an epic day of photography. Our gourmet feast of photographic delights included a 3:30AM start, a sunrise seascape session, a day shooting at an air show, a sunset seascape session, a light painting session in an abandoned railway tunnel and a post midnight finish.
In part one we visit the lazy coastal town of Austinmer (about an hours drive south of Sydney) for a dawn seascape shoot at their tidal pools. We hadn’t exactly planned out in advance specifically where we were going to go this morning – just roughly somewhere along the coast between Sydney and Wollongong :). A quick decision in route and we arrived at Austinmer in short order (we’d never shot this location before and it had some ocean pools so it was as good as any for a seascape session we figured).
Note: These photographs (especially the wider shots) look much better when larger – so click any of the images below to see larger versions in an inline overlay slideshow gallery viewer.
Morning Refresh
NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 19 mm, 1 sec at f/11, ISO 200
and just on sunrise
Where Dawn Treads
NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 19 mm, 1/1 sec at f/11, ISO 100
The thick bank of clouds right on the horizon meant we didn’t get much in the way of a sunrise per se – but about 15 minutes after sunrise (6:45AM) we got a second chance with the sun breaking through the lower clouds and underlighting the high clouds
Second Chance is Golden
NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 24 mm, 1/5 sec at f/11, ISO 100
Later still (about 50 minutes after sunrise – 7:20AM) we got awesome God rays streaming down off the coast through a really interesting pattern of clouds in the sky. I found myself a nice little location on the beach itself with this small rocky area just at the edge of the surf for some epic shots
Gods Hand, Stormy Surge
NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 20 mm, 1/13 sec at f/11, ISO 100
Outflow
NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 19 mm, 1/4 sec at f/16, ISO 100
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