Recently, I visited a friend of mine, Kane, in Coffs Harbour. Kane and I have for a long time shared a passion for photography.
Indeed, he has featured in many of my blog entries, including as the silhouette of "The Photographer" in my first blog entry. The purpose of the trip to Coffs was to photograph a wedding with Kane (more on that in a later blog entry perhaps), but it was also just great to spend time with Kane and his girlfriend, Cass.
On the morning of the wedding, Kane and I decided to photograph the sunrise. I have struggled of late to find the motivation to wake up for a sunrise. What usually happens is that I hit snooze about 3 times, before eventually turning the alarm off (we've all been there, haha). Having a partner in crime really did make it that much easier to wake up.
We rose at 5.30am, rugged up (it was fairly cold), gulped down an 'Up & Go" and a cup to tea, and then jumped into the car. We reached the jetty around 6am. We had to work quickly, as the best shooting conditions are generally 30 minutes before and 30 minutes after the sun has breached horizon, after that it's just too bright and the brilliant colours in the sky fade away. We both set up quickly and starting snapping away. We tried some shots on top of the jetty, but I wasn't entirely fussed with my attempts. Finally, we tried below the jetty. This is where the "WOW" moment happened. Every now and then, you see a raw (unedited) photo on camera and think "this is the one". After some editing (or cheating, as my brother describes it) in Adobe Lightroom 3 and Photoshop CS5, I was delighted (cue Hamish and Andy "delight") this is what I came up with. This ones definitely going on the wall and in the yearly photobook.
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| Sunrise at Coffs Harbour Jetty |
Thanks for looking.
Cheers
Roy
