I've been going down to Hengistbury Head with Kathryn when she goes bird ringing. Hopefully should be some good practice in future for sunsets and sunrises as they set up the night before and then get down there before sunrise to start. On Saturday we were up at 5 to get there. Tried a bit of HDR and got some funky results. Looking forward to learning HDR more and refining it, most people say that over timeyou get used to just making small tweaks, but at the start the "HDR effect" suckers you in to overdoing it, which I know the below are overdone, but they're the best I've managed on my limited HDR forays so far!


Sunrise HDR 4 by Chris_Moody, on Flickr


Sunrise HDR 2 by Chris_Moody, on Flickr


Sunrise HDR 3 by Chris_Moody, on Flickr

This is HDR too!

Lightbeams by Chris_Moody, on Flickr

Actually managed to get close enough to fill the frame on this Little Egret. They were stalking along the shoreline parallel to the path. To start with I scared it away whilst setting up, so learned from the experience and set up a little way in front of the direction it was walking. 10 mins later it was pretty much right in front of me

Egret by Chris_Moody, on Flickr

After the sunrise I noticed some wood pilings on a groyne that were eroded, but the grain was pretty cool, or thats what I thought anyway!

Wood 4 by Chris_Moody, on Flickr

Quote from: zpyder on October 02, 2011, 19:57:03 PM

Sunrise HDR 3 by Chris_Moody, on Flickr

I love this one, that's brilliant

I tell you what zpyder finding a photographer on the internet is like finding a tesco in a city center but your pics and location work are brill mate 

Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on October 02, 2011, 20:46:39 PM

Quote from: zpyder on October 02, 2011, 19:57:03 PM

Sunrise HDR 3 by Chris_Moody, on Flickr

I love this one, that's brilliant

Agreed rather good that one!

Been trying to get either a sunset or sunrise with the decent weather but when I went out yesterday evening it was just thick cloud doh

Cheers guys.

The HDR rather helped with the purple sunrise shot. It was misty, but not that much, the HDR helped to highlight it. I'm definitely going to explore this more the next time I'm down there for the sunrise, my next challenge is getting to the end of Hengistbury head where all the beach huts are, before the sun comes up, to get some shots down there! It's a couple of miles :S

Just wait another couple of weeks/months, means that the sunrise is that bit later so you can get up at a more resonable times, shame the strength of the sun will be that bit less but still might be worth it.

Problem is we/they get there for the bird ringing *just* before dawn, doubt Kathryn will want to get up 30 mins earlier than necessary!

Must admit I can't really blame her for that one!