On Fire

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On Fire
On Fire

After our first night at a free campsite just outside Auckland, we drove up the Coromandel Peninsula. Originally we wanted to visit Cathedral Cove, but the lady from the campervan rental company told us that it was closed due to a recent storm and the current danger of landslides and rockfalls. So we just drove the beautiful windy roads along the ocean, visited the ancient Kauri trees in Waiau and the nearby waterfalls and finally ended up in Tairua where we found a campsite via the Rankers Camping and CamperMate app. Before we went to sleep, I took a look at Google Maps and discovered a beautiful beach that faced east and seemed perfect for sunrise.

So we got up an hour before sunrise the next morning and decided to walk there. We would have preferred to drive, but as there was no parking space on the map, we decided to walk and were a little late, especially as we didn't know if we were allowed to use the narrow paths between the houses (which - as it turned out - led straight down to the beach). So we walked a little further down the road and eventually found an entrance to the beach, and when we got there, the sky started to burn.

It was such an intense red that neither of us had thought of because of the cloud cover, but the small gap in the horizon let the red morning light through and illuminated the cloud cover from below. I quickly switched to my telephoto lens and took this first picture without looking at my settings. Since everything is far away anyway, the aperture doesn't really matter, but I would have preferred to lower the ISO, which I did in the second image I took. However, in this image the red glow was not as soft and diffuse as in the first one, but luckily image denoising is very efficient these days. The red glow quickly disappeared and the rising sun poked through the gaps in the clouds, resulting in some amazing god rays that I may upload one day. Until then, I hope you enjoy this minimalist shot! :)

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Taken on: August 11, 2023
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Camera: Sony ILCE-7M4, f/6.3, 1/125 sec, 312.2mm, ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)
Camera: Sony ILCE-7M4
Lens: 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Contemporary 020
Aperture: f/6.3
Exposure Time: 0.008 sec (1/125)
Focal Length: 312.2mm
ISO: 400
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program: Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode: Auto
Metering Mode: Multi-segment
White Balance: Auto
Sharpness: Hard
Color Space: Uncalibrated
Software: Capture One Macintosh
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