Sunrise at the Beach

[David]

I got up early this morning and headed off down the beach to catch the sunrise. I wasn't disappointed and after almost a week shrouded in fog it was lovely to see the old light bulb in the sky climbing above the horizon again:

 

Best Viewed large:

 

Beach Sunrise

 

Morning Waves

 

Sunrise Sea Reflections

 

Sunrise with Reeds

[bugmeister]

All good, and my favourite would be number three. Love the early light in these kind of pictures, and you caught it really well

[David]

Thanks Bugs and it shows how the light and colours change really quickly

[JohnP]

I like them all... but if I was asked to pick my favourite then it has to be No3.

[Martyn]

#1 does it for me. Sad to say that I was up and at work long before the sun came up  

[David]

Thanks John, thanks Martyn and aww that's a shame. They are getting earlier too 

[NannyFerret]

I like the dreamy colours in no 1, but a nice set all round.

[David]

Thanks Tina

[ChrisLumix]

In #3 you've caught the perfect combination of warm and cooler colour temperatures. However #1 is heavily biased towards the magenta/blue spectrum - have you played around to see if 'warming' the colour temperature (towards yellow mostly, I would guess) would improve the colour of what is otherwise a very good shot? The colour temperature of #1 and #2 is dramatically different also, you wouldn't think it was the same occasion.

[David]

In my haste to take the photographs (I got there just as the sun was rising) I accidentally left the camera at it's previous WB setting of tungsten...yes a school boy error!. #2, #3 and #4 raw files were corrected in photoshop, by changing to auto WB, #1 showed little or no difference I left it.

 

The sequence of shots were: #4, #1, #3 and #2. They were all taken this morning within half an hour of each other, and there really was quite a change in colours.

 

Having taken your comments on board I tried again with #1 and changed it to daylight and got this result - I think it works:

 

[David]

In fact Chris here they all are again, all with the same daylight WB correction:

 

 

 

 

[ChrisLumix]

Yes, now I see a consistency of colour balance - I think you got it right

[Heather]

stunning 

[David]

Thanks Chris and Heather

[Jon]

Great set

[NannyFerret]

I agree! Changing the light balance definitely works.