{"id":603,"date":"2011-07-25T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeisaak.com\/blog\/?p=603"},"modified":"2013-04-03T03:04:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T03:04:00","slug":"band-of-fire-wellington-coast-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"Band of Fire &#8211; Wellington Coast, New Zealand."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This image was taken during sunrise, the morning after <a href=\"http:\/\/mikeisaak.com\/blog\/?p=586\">&#8220;Wellington at Dusk&#8221;<\/a>. I had woken up a little late and could see the sky already lighting up. Once again, I had to hastily grab all my gear and run across a bunch of rocks to get to this spot. By this time, around the middle of our trip, I think the lack of sleep was definitely getting to me. The constant waking up for sunrise at 4:30am and staying up late for sunset (past 11pm) did not allow for much sleep, but I loved every minute of it.<\/p>\n<p>The night before, with the help of \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/photoephemeris.com\/\">The Photographer&#8217;s Ephemeris<\/a>, I was able to determine where the sun was going to rise and chose this small pool. I really enjoyed how the water would rush through the gap in the rocks directly towards my feet, and the green plants in the reflecting pool didn&#8217;t hurt either. While I was setting up for this shot, I dropped one of my GND filters into this pool, and almost knocked my camera over! Even with my lack of sleep, I was still able to catch the camera before any damage occured (I&#8217;ll attribute my fast reflexes to the fact that I am a morning person!).<\/p>\n<p>This photo is a two shot horizontal stitch as I wanted more in the photo from this close to the pool then my lens would allow. I took three exposures for each horizontal set of photos, and manually blended them using Photoshop CS5 . Then I took the two resulting images and merged them together in Photoshop.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1411\" style=\"width: 528px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1411\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1411\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1411\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1411 \" title=\"band-of-fire\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/band-of-fire1-740x592.jpg\" width=\"518\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/band-of-fire1-740x592.jpg 740w, http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/band-of-fire1-300x240.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/band-of-fire1-200x160.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/band-of-fire1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Band of Fire&#8221;, Wellington Coast, New Zealand.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Buy the print <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/photo\/image-506a0fa366cd8\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image was taken during sunrise, the morning after &#8220;Wellington at Dusk&#8221;. I had woken up a little late and could see the sky already lighting up. Once again, I had to hastily grab all my gear and run across a bunch of rocks to get to this spot. 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