December 2008

I did have one good sunrise image, although not of the sun rising over the ocean but of the overflow down from Mud Pond.  This is an HDR of 4 images ranging from -2 to +1EV.  The image at +2EV was just too washed out to be of use.  

One of my favorite songs is an old Moody blues song called “And the Tide Rushes In”  and the song was playing in my head all yesterday morning.  It was with a smile I read Moose Peterson’s blog post May the Sun Rise to Greet You last night since even without his urging that’s what I did, though I didn’t have nearly the sunrise to photograph as he did.  I got up at 5 to drive to Moonstone Beach for sunrise thinking that it should be a spectacular sunrise since the front blew through overnight and the wind was from the north west so there should be some clouds sprinkling the sky to reflect the sun as it rose.  It certainly seemed that way where I live, about 50 miles north but as I took the southward turn down route 4 I could see a large bank of clouds on the horizon that didn’t disperse as I got closer.  Sunrise itself was a bust but the beach in predawn light was beautiful as the tide was coming in.   I wanted to blur the water a bit but didn’t want to let the exposure be too long so that the rocks that were being covered by the water would show.  I liked this one the best because to me it gives the feeling of the water reaching out to grab the rocks but not quite getting there.

The tide rushes in

The only thing was that it didn’t really grab me so I started again and in LR2 converted it to B&W and then worked on it Photoshop (Since for some reason LR2 is so slow I just do everything again in photoshop) and got this:

And the tide rushes in B&W

I’m still not sure which one I like best so comments and criticism is appreciated