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| 'Byron Bay' By Jack Coghlan |
Something about the new year seems to motivate people, whether it's creating new goals or driving to reach existing ones everyone seems to have a new spring in their step and I am certainly no exception. The four digits 2,0,1 and 4 do great things for my mental and physical power and to justify that It has been a busy start of the year for me and initially it began on the 2nd of January at Byron Bay on the NSW North Coast. An amazing week leading up to this date had seen super hot summer days, rain, lighting and even a large fire.
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| The Lennox head fire started by a lightning strike the night before. |
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| Early fog covering the roads |
The morning of the 2nd I woke up to an amazing layer of fog that got thicker and thicker closer to the cape.
Being such a iconic location and one of the best spots in the world to watch the sun rise there is always a fair crowd up around the lighthouse. For this reason among others I knew I wanted to be over the fence for this image and to my delight there was a beautiful bunch of wild flowers growing at the top of the cliff.
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| Behind the scenes on Location at Byron Bay Lighthouse |
You Will notice the Panorama head on my tripod and that the final image is a standard 2:3 ratio.
The image is made up of 7 stitched portrait images and cropped to keep the 2:3 ratio to include the important features to the image and control the negative space. With a nice sunrise and beautiful location it is best to keep post processing to a minimum. As always a few minor adjustments are made in Adobe Camera Raw with the rest being left for Photoshop (PS). With no major manipulation I focused on colour and density adjustments with basic PS techniques while using some slightly more advanced ones such as painting the brown grass green, to give the image a nice finish.
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| Before & After Post Processing. |
Thanks for reading,
Jack.
View another image from my North Coast trip.
Amongst the Boulders.
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