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This image of a lovely sunset sky, reflecting in a tidal rock pool, is one of several hundred RAW files that I took at Church Bay on the beautiful Isle of Anglesey, for the purpose of producing my time lapse video of the incoming tide.
Church Bay is one of the most fantastic places to view and photograph a sunset from.
West facing, you can watch the sun set out to sea at any time of year from here, and with an undulating beach bedecked with multi-hued rocks and tidal pools there's no shortage of foreground interest for any number of photographic compositions.
But as I said, on this occasion I was primarily interested in producing the time lapse, rather than take an individual photo.
However, on reviewing the image files from my shoot, there were several individual frames that would work very well as a static picture.
That's one of the benefits of shooting RAW files when making a time lapse - you have the potential to do so much more than just make the movie clip.
So I chose this RAW file from the hundreds at my disposal, as having the best combination of sunset colours, lighting and the shape of the rock pool, partially filled by the incoming tide.
I then copied this file and set to work in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop to re-optimise this single image for presentation as a stand-alone picture.
In the end I was really pleased with the final result, and delighted that I had got a double bonus of both a time lapse video and a striking still photo from the same set of RAW files.
Filename - church bay sunset 04.jpg
Camera - Canon 6D
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 24mm
Exposure - 1/4 sec @ f4, ISO100
Location - Church Bay, Anglesey, North Wales
This image - 800x450px JPEG
Conversion - Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop CC
Comments - Neutral density filter used to prolong exposure and neutral density graduated filter used to darken the sky
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