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A follow up from yesterdays horizontal composition with this vertical one also at 14mm focusing on that cool kidney bean pool of still water in the foreground

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NIKON Z 7 + NIKKOR Z 14-30mm f/4 S @ 14 mm, 6 sec at f/11, ISO 31

I’ve still added a quick touch of low directional light painting on the rocks in the foreground. Lighting is from around 45 degrees on the right out of frame and from down very low. This adds some dimension and depth with light and shadow

Alas the mid and high thin clouds that Gerry “promised” for sunrise were a bust. Instead we had this heavy low cloud out to sea and chunky dark cloud above which failed to light up. Dark was the mood today…

On the plus side the new Kase filter kit is proving to be excellent. Here I’m using the CPL and the 3 stop reverse grad filter

This reverse grad is excellent – reverse grads are darkest in the middle and progressively lightens towards the top of the filter. The idea is to put the darkest part of the grad over a particularly bright horizon without it overly darkening the top of the frame. A “normal” 3 stop grad would also darken the frame right to the top. This is ideal for before sunrise and sometimes up to just after sunrise when the sun peeks above the horizon. In those conditions it’s typically brightest just above the horizon but the upper sky can be relatively dark still. The other really good thing about this particular reverse grad is that the transition area between the darkest part in the middle and the clear part is not too hard. My previous reverse grad had a very hard transition, this one is more like a medium

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