{"id":358,"date":"2011-07-27T16:53:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T08:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/?p=358"},"modified":"2011-07-27T16:55:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T08:55:17","slug":"sugarloaf-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/2011\/07\/sugarloaf-rock","title":{"rendered":"Sugarloaf Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Situated near the coastline of the Leeuwin-Naturiste National Park, the Sugarloaf Rock is said to be one of the most widely photographed seascapes in Western Australia. After a short drive from Bussel Jetty, Clarence and I arrived at a lookout point overlooking the rock formation close to sunset. At the same time, a storm is brewing, which made for dramatic skies.<\/p>\n<p>As it was sunset and the rock itself was backlit, I had to employ the HDR technique here, this time shooting 9 bracketed shots. This gave me +\/- 4EV of dynamic range to play with, and after tone mapping and tweaking in Photomatix 4.0, here is the result.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6005\/5973659353_e40918ff50_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sun sets behind the Sugarloaf Rock Formation in the Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park, WA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Meanwhile, the warm evening sun has also cast a warm light on the surrounding coast. Simply beautiful. Again, HDR was used to handle the wide dynamic range present in the scene.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2690\/5746183573_b4a9ce7220_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The setting sun casts a warm glow on the rocks next to the hill hear the Sugarloaf Rock in the Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park in Yallingup, Western Australia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5068\/5746183083_fece90d24c_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The setting sun bathes the coastline of Yallingup, Western Australia in a warm orange glow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Situated near the coastline of the Leeuwin-Naturiste National Park, the Sugarloaf Rock is said to be one of the most widely photographed seascapes in Western Australia. After a short drive from Bussel Jetty, Clarence and I arrived at a lookout point overlooking the rock formation close to sunset. At the same time, a storm is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/2011\/07\/sugarloaf-rock\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sugarloaf Rock<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[92,154,93,153,123,155],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}