South of Garie…
by Rodney Campbell on Mar.14, 2014, under Life, Photography
Sunday morning saw us head to Garie beach, further south in the Royal National Park on the southern edge of Sydney.
If the morning before looked grim today boded worse – it was actually raining when we got up at 4:45AM and still raining when we left and on our drive down to Garie. We arrived and umbrellas in hand we made our way southward past the southern end of the beach till we reached the very nice rock plates where we setup for “sunrise”
Of course with 100% cloud and some light rain sunrise never actually appeared but the rocks and waves made up for it to some degree and soon after we arrived the heavy rain basically stopped and we had a break from most of the drizzle for most of the session. Thankfully the rain didn’t start up again till we were almost back to the car
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.
Minutes before sunrise it was getting much lighter but with bland featureless skies I focused instead on the powerful waves and rocks. The tide was rising and high tide was in about an hour and with the sea so rough we had to be a little careful that a rogue wave didn’t take us out. Unfortunately one of our group lost their camera and lens to the sea during this session (well not actually lost – just completely submerged and therefore “dead”) 🙁
The Calm and The Anger
NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 44 mm, 1 sec at f/11, ISO 100
From much earlier – shot about half an hour before sunrise – a straight long exposure with no filters (a bit over 4 minutes)
Dawns Darkness
NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm, 246 sec at f/11, ISO 100
One of the girls had a very colourful umbrella and clothing to match so I figured it would provide a perfect contrast to the otherwise muted landscape and flat featureless skies this day – a little staging and we’ve got
Dreamin’ of Rainbows
NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 70 mm, 1/2 sec at f/11, ISO 100
The structure and pattern of rocks on this shelf we were shooting on really were very interesting so I spent a little time doing some forced perspective vertical shots to accentuate this in my foreground. Realistically I should have switched to the 16-35 for a wider and closer view but with the light drizzle and the stormy conditions I just couldn’t be bothered so I stuck with the excellent 24-70 all morning. The sky was also getting bright enough now that I needed to go the filter route to control the dynamic range of the bright sky against the foreground so I loaded my usual Lee kit and went with the Lee 2 stop hard grad stacked with the Heliopan circular polariser
Loaves and Sponges
NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm, 4 sec at f/11, ISO 100
and is that a brief touch of colour I see above the headland (believe me it was pretty much all we got the whole weekend)
Dawn Victorious
NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm, 6 sec at f/16, ISO 100
and our rainbow umbrella toting model makes an appearance again :)- buffeting wind and a six second exposure really don’t help 🙂
Thats a Tick from Me
NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm, 6 sec at f/16, ISO 100
It’s now half an hour after sunrise and we’re nearly done – time to pack up and head slowly back
Swish and Swash
NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 52 mm, 1 sec at f/11, ISO 100
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