Backdraft…
by Rodney Campbell on Jul.30, 2015, under Life, Photography
Another epic sunrise missed… well almost… This backdraft from the fire gods descended on Sydney the day AFTER I’d gone out to shoot a cloudless sunrise seascape session… sigh…
It’s always the way, decide not to get up early for a shoot and this is what happens!…
Morning Fires
NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 100 mm, 1/100 sec at f/5.3, ISO 500
For some reason I woke early this morning – just in time to look up from bed and see that the room was glowing red, the ceiling, the walls…
Damn this could mean just one thing… So I quickly got up to take a look out the bedroom window to be presented with this. It was already 6:45AM (just ten minutes till sunrise) and it was still this good – amazing!…
I quickly grabbed the camera and shot these handheld through the window trading ISO for stability with the long lens. These shots are essentially straight out of camera – it was so good it hurt. This was possibly the best sunrise I’d seen in Sydney this year…
Note: These images (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.
Backdraft
NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 92 mm, 1/100 sec at f/7.1, ISO 800
Ah well next time perhaps I won’t be so lazy and will set the alarm for an early rise and on location an hour before sunrise again… just in time for the cloudless skies or 100% overcast. Still better than torrential rain I say… better luck next time.
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