Equipment Does Not Make the Sunrise

Photo of the Day

At the end of July I was in Ocean City, Maryland with the family. I spent a couple of mornings up way too early waiting for the sun to rise. On my second day I was rewarded with this glorious sunrise. I had my tripod a bit up the beach making a picture when I decided to use my little point and shoot to make one closer to the water. When I saw the back of my screen I knew that I had to move my tripod down closer to the water. This little tool was a good way to test out a location without moving all my gear. I was taking a 30 second exposure at the time anyway so I really had some time to kill. On a whim I decided to process this in Lightroom, and I was floored by the result. I think that I actually like this photo more than the photo that I took with my expensive rig. Sometimes the gear does not make the picture for sure.

Technical Data

This was a handheld shot with a point and shoot so I didn’t want to do too much to the jpeg file. I used a preset in Lighroom called ‘the HDR look’ by Matt Kloskowski. I just needed a couple of tweaks after applying the preset before this was ready to post. This was a very easy way to make a picture, and it makes you wonder about the 70 pound back of gear that I was carrying that day.