The Orange…
by Rodney Campbell on Mar.31, 2015, under Life, Photography
I could see this one fabulous orange topped rock sitting out in this area of steely blue grey rocks along the shoreline. It’s bright orange top surface stood out like a beacon in this sea of neutral dark tone.
I’m guessing it has stayed this way because the top surface stays above the tide whilst everything else gets submerged at high tide and the orange lichen is killed off by the salt water. Whatever causes this – it was perfect for a nice close and tight composition with the sun setting rapidly over the horizon behind the distant hills.
Sticking with the Lee LittleStopper again for some long exposures at 8:15PM and just 15 minutes till sunset… Here I’m stacking everything – the Heliopan CPL along with a 3 stop Lee grad and the LittleStopper and dropping the ISO down to 50 to lengthen the exposure.
Almost Alone
NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 19 mm, 77 sec at f/11, ISO 50
and now time for a “normal” exposure selfie version with the same composition. Removing just the LittleStopper for this 1/4 of a second exposure just as the skies went nuts with orange colour. A peaceful time for me to reflect on a wondrous day as well as our orange table rock 🙂
Orange Reflections
NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 19 mm, 1/4 sec at f/11, ISO 400
Five minutes to sunset and we were getting really good colour in the sky so it was back to the LittleStopper for some simplified oranges against the deep blue of impending night…
Isolated Oranges
NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 19 mm, 124.00 sec at f/11, ISO 50
It was time for a change in composition so I moved about the rock looking for another angle which would work and finally settled on this. I was liking that small pool of reflective water at the base of the rock and was trying to work it into the composition with some fine adjustments to the polariser. The sun had set by now but the horizon and some of the upper clouds were still glowing. Time for a few more tries at a selfie…
Arrow Lines
NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 19 mm, 1/3 sec at f/8, ISO 400
and back to adding the LittleStopper to the mix again for this final long exposure for the evening. Had to bump the ISO to 200 to avoid an insanely long exposure now that it was getting quite dark (still a 3+ minute exposure at 8:40PM and 10 minutes after sunset).
Orange Spear
NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 19 mm, 186 sec at f/11, ISO 200
Then it was time to go and meet up with the rest of the family… the end of a very very successful photographic day…
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