I checked the weather forecast last night before going to bed and recognized a scenario unfolding that often leads to spectacular sunrises over Lake Ontario here in Grimsby, Ontario. I got up well before dawn, checked the weather again, and the hoped-for scenario was still holding. I dressed warmly, grabbed the gear and headed over to one of my favourite spots, Fifty Point, and settled in on the beach awaiting dawn. I was not disappointed as one of the more spectacular sunrises in the pst few months unfolded. As you can see from the ice collars formed on the posts, it was cold here. I wound up shooting with numb fingers, an occupational hazard if you want to get this type of image, I guess. This lasted about ½ hour and then became too washed-out for my liking, my signal to thaw my fingers and get a warm beverage. - JW
Date Taken: 2016-01-08
Tech Details:
Taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D7100 fitted with a Nikkor 12-24mm lense set to 14mm, ISO100, Manual WB set to daylight, Aperture priority mode, f/11.0, 3 sec with an EV-2.0 exposure bias to keep the bright horizon from getting blown out (based on test exposure). PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: scale image to 9000x6000, set WB to 5200K, over-ride automatic exposure 'correction' and reduce exposure to 1.0 x camera value, enable Graduated Neutral Density filter and adjust strength to get a good balance between sky and foreground tonal values, enable highlight-shadow control and significantly recover highlights to preserve bright horizon details and then boost shadow recovery to just begin to bring out backlit groyne details, boost vibrance slightly, boost contrast slightly, enable sharpening, enable micro-contrast, enable noise reduction, save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: modify the tone curve by fixing a point about 25% up from the black point and then pull up the lower/darker section to pull up the brightness of the near water and the groynes, slightly boost saturation to clean up the colours, use the dodge-burn tool to selectively brighten the highlights in the ice collars around the groyne posts, sharpen, save, scale image to 6000x4000 (my preferred size for prepping images intended for online posting), add fine black and white frame, add bar and text on left, scale to 1800 wide for posting.
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