Rodney Campbell's Blog

It’s a cliche of course. That view looking straight down the boards towards that little blue boathouse at the edge of Crawley really is a cracker of a composition.

I was the first to arrive so I had the whole boardwalk to myself. Repairs meant that it was totally closed off from the stairs. My setup right at the end of the stairs left me with the whole length right in front of me.

The Wider Edge

NIKON D750 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 34 mm, 6 sec at f/16, ISO 50 x 5 Frames

I wanted to do a wider stitched panorama at the location so I tried two sets of pano frames at different times. The sun almost directly to your left meant that unfortunately the lighting is very tricky here at sunrise. This leaves the left half of the frame much brighter than to the right of the shed. I really didn’t take enough care when taking my exposures so I didn’t have the best source data.

The panorama above is from the second set of frames taken pretty much on sunrise and is a stitch of five (5) vertical frames. It didn’t quite work how I was expecting. It definitely had issues but it’s the best I could do with it.

Note: These photographs (especially the wider shots) look much better when larger. Click any of the images below to see larger versions in an inline overlay slideshow gallery viewer.

With the sun on the rise it was time to get out the stronger ND’s if I was going to stay and shoot a little longer. Adding the Lee LittleStopper (6 stop ND) to the mix and getting the last of the low sunrise colour in the clouds this one minute long exposure ended up being one of my morning favourites.

Longing Edge Boathouse

NIKON D750 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 34 mm, 61 sec at f/13, ISO 100

Less than ten minutes later the colour was mostly gone. The very last of the warm light was skipping across the boards and on the poles. The very next frame (3 minutes later) it was all gone and we’re left with soft blues.

Soft in Blue

NIKON D750 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 27 mm, 154 sec at f/16, ISO 100

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