Cold on the pier

Lucky to find this guy walking towards me to add a bit of interest to a cloudless sunrise from Blyth Pier

K5IIs, Samsung version of the 12-24 at 14mm. 1/20 f13 ISO 80

Any C&C welcome


Cold on Blyth pier by Alan Wennington, on Flickr

Apart from the red lifebelt container competing with the sun, the deep saturation of the colours are lovely.

Very nice Alan. Now you have inspired me (Whitby today) to do pier shots, give me some pointers as to how you processed this.

Best regards

Thanks guys. Take on board the point re the lifebelt holder David.

Gary, I'm using the K5IIs for sunrise shots due to its ability to lift shadows. This was a single exposure, no grads. Exposed to not blow out the sun. Then in lightroom set WB to Auto (Auto generally sets a decent stating point). Balance the contrast, the shadows, and the highlights. Grad to darken the sky. Grad to lighten the foreground slightly, and increase clarity. Tinker with the overall WB a bit.

Then just go through the options again with little tweaks

Thanks for the processing breakdown, Alan. Amazing that this could be achieved without a ND Grad but the Dynamic Range of my K5 continues to surprise me and this shot is the same.

Great shot !

Regards
Nigel

Thanks Alan.

Best regards