First Light at Thunder Hole

[Bob Miller]

Nikon D-300
Very early light
15 sec at f16 Foreground
Sky about 2 stops underrexposed (?)
2 exposure blend
ISO 200
vari ND filter
12- 24 mm at 18mm
All comments welcome!

[Dave Mills]

Hi Bob, Good job getting an even exposure and using the cut as a leading line.
You might want to look at your horizon and give it some CW rotation.
Not sure if you dodged the lower portions of the rocks in the cut but they look a little manipulated to my eye.
I like the softness of the water and the colored sky.
A sidenote...not sure if this would of been possible to position yourself a bit more to the left so the cut opening was facing the opening between the islands. Very possible they wouldn't lineup and still get the opening...

[Robert Amoruso]

Good suggestion on moving left if that would have worked. I agree that the background looks very skewed but the clouds look OK (at least to me).

This has been a nice series of images.

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Bob,
Excellent suggestions by Dave.......It does appear a rotation is in order. I'd imagine you used the vari-nd?.....that may have blocked up some of the darker areas....see if you can eek out some subtle detail in there. Very nice series indeed!

[Bob Miller]

Thanks again for the feedback Guys!