Tuesday 1 January 2019

New Years Day- Mupe Rocks

Having secured a great sunrise at Durdle Door (see here), we moved to Lulworth Cove and had a walk over the cliffs to a location I've always wanted to photograph.
The clifftop path is only open at weekends, so getting the combo of access, weather, tide, sun direction...etc is even harder.
I was using this as a bit of research to find out what the walk is like as the path down to the beach and the rocks on the beach are well-known to be treacherously slippery, especially in the dark.

Although the sun was well up now (it was about 11am), the light was still lovely due to it being mid-winter.
This shot was taken looking due East along the coast, with the rocks of Mupe Bay in the foreground.
I used a 10-stop ND filter to slow down the exposure and capture the movement of the waves along with a circular polarizing filter to cut glare and deepen the blues in the sky.
I'm pleased with the results, but there's definitely more to be got from this location, either at sunrise, or as a night-time location.

Mupe Rocks, Canon EOS77D, Sigma 10mm, 5s, f11, ISO100, 10 stop ND filter & polarizing filter

Sometimes you need to get wet to get the shot. Suffering for my art, with my son looking on.....





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