Love working with Rachel! She’s very open & reliable to do sunrise shoots! This would be my 1st time shooting with my new Sony A1, & I won’t lie I did struggle with the shoot! There are a few new features on this camera that kind of threw me off from the get-go. First off, not camera-related, we were on a very tight space on a cliff & I wanted to get a wide environmental shot so I used my 16-35mm f2.8, I think at 19mm. There weren’t many clouds so the sunrise came up too fast & hot! I forgot to take a background plate shot so I could easily erase my assistant out later in PS. It was painfully difficult to remove Brandon from the frame! That was just the start! Haha!
After the sun rose above the clouds, the lighting was way too harsh & contrasty for my liking. We moved down & around the other side of the cliff to the shadow side. That’s when it hit me that I didn’t really know what I wanted to capture as far as the background, so I blacked out the background to look more like a studio shot. BUT the whole reason why we were out at sunrise on location was to capture the environment…DUH!?! LOL! With 50mp & 15 stops of dynamic range, I was able to pull up the background out of the shadows.
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