01.07.2023

Fujifilm X-T4 + XF16mm f/1.4 R WR: 600s, f/8, ISO160

I completed yet another trip around trip around the sun, so in a way this was another new year sunrise shoot. I don’t do it often, but I went on my own on this morning because this is not a spot the Saturday morning crew seemed terribly interested in. I had never visited for sunrise or sunset before and it’s been on my mind since taking Trisha there last month.

Fujifilm X-T4 + XF16mm f/1.4 R WR: 60s, f/11, ISO160

The tide was a bit lower than I would have liked but there were frequent enough little surges that the gradation from still to moving sand turned out nice enough. Last month I ruined a filter and a filter adapter that were attached to my lens when a rogue wave came for my camera. I kept both the damaged items in my car this whole time and it actually came in handy this morning. I brought the replacement filter but left the replacement filter adapter at home by accident. I was able to salvage the damaged one enough to use on this morning! Also, a happy accident was this vertical 1-minute exposure photo. Every other photo I’ve done at this spot I try to set the shutter to “as long as humanly possible” but I think the movement in the clouds is perfect at this 60s!

Fujifilm X-T4 + XF16mm f/1.4 R WR: 240s, f/11, ISO160

The best photo to take after a vertical is often a horizontal, and vice-versa really. I used to hear this a lot listening to photography podcasts by Scott Bourne and Rick Sammon and others and it rings true. It’s always worth trying until camera manufacturers finally give us a square sensor. The colors out of the camera made me remember one of my favorite features of Fujifilm cameras. They have these wonderful color presets named after their popular film-stocks from that era of photography. One of my favorites is “Classic Chrome.” I processed this one with that preset as the baseline and I like how it turned out.

Fujifilm X-T4 + XF16mm f/1.4 R WR: 1/250s, f/4, ISO160

I was the only one at this beach for a good portion of the morning. Just as I was about to leave, these three young men came through the public beach access way with fishing rods. They started walking out through the shallows (which must be ¼ mile to the reef/surf break) so with them knees deep, I figured it’d be kinda neat to snap a photo of them before leaving the area. Then I left.