Over the past few weeks the weather has been more in keeping with the British summer: unsettled - and it is often the case that there are just a few minutes of good light around sunrise before the cloud rolls in for the best part of the day.
Today's example was photographed on Canford Cliffs beach, Dorset, at 5:22am, shortly before the sun broke the horizon, and is the result of two images blended together in Photoshop. Normally I would use a grey graduated filter to hold back the sky - having exposed for the foreground - but this time I used the technique of "bracketing".
This involves making several exposures in quick succession at different exposure values - in this case normal plus one stop over the meter reading. This allows for two parts of the scene to receive adequate exposure (in this instance sky and foreground) which then can be blended together using software.
Cheating? No. Multiple exposures in photography are almost as old as photography itself. It is only in the last twenty years - since the advent of Adobe Photoshop - that the public in general have become aware of such techniques; techniques which were an integral part of darkroom working, but subsequently made easier and quicker with the use of computers.
I rest my case.
24-70mm f/2.8 AF-S Nikkor. 1/400-1/200 second at f/8. -0.33 EV compensation. ISO 640.
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