Getting the perfect shot takes planning and dedication. Sometimes that just isn’t enough. I had wanted to capture an image of a pipe at my local beach for sometime and knew what conditions would be needed to get a great image. I knew the tide had to be quite high but not at its highest point. I knew I wanted to get a nice sunrise so had to check the weather apps to ensure cloud cover was not high (For this I used the Clear Outside Android App). My batteries were all charged and I was ready to go.

It was a very icy day and I realised quite quickly that I had to climb the frozen pipe to get the vantage point I required. I climbed the pipe and took a few test shots to work out what exposure I would need with my 10 stop filter. I fitted the 10 Stop and waited.

As the sun came up I grabbed my chance and set the exposure away. As the shot developed I noticed there was a lot of lens flare. I thought I would be able to take this out is post production so didn’t worry too much. When I got home and opened the image in lightroom I realised it was a different story.

The lens flare was huge! right across my image. I didn’t spend much time developing this image, instead I closed my laptop and gave up the chance of vlogging this session. One thing I could have done to prevent this issue would be to cover the sun and take an image and then take the image again with the sun in the picture. From here I could have blended the 2 exposures and remove d the flare.

It wasn’t until a few weeks after that I decided to revisit the location and see what everyones thoughts were on this image.

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