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Sunrise at East Inlet, Pittsburg, New Hampshire

Had the chance to spend a long weekend in Pittsburg, the northernmost town in New Hampshire. Pittsburg is 420 miles from NYC. The nearest McDonalds is 50 miles away. The nearest stop light is 70 miles away. The population density is around 1. On Sunday, I got up at 4:30am to kayak on East Inlet, near Second Connecticut Lake. We didn't see any moose, but plenty of osprey, hawks, herons, and loons.

This shot is a blend of a 3-shot handheld bracketed exposure from a moving kayak. The trick it seems is to set the shooting mode to continuous high speed to minimize the amount of movement between exposures.

13mm (20mm=) / f/7.1 / ISO 200

Comments and faves

  1. ★

    bfinney, stacyrosenstock, Ewick, Chip Shotz, and 159 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. andrew c mace (35 months ago | reply)

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  3. Darren White Photography (35 months ago | reply)

    This is awesome....and something I have wanted to do for a long time...I just dont know anyone with a canoe!

  4. robert.hamilton (35 months ago | reply)

    Cool shot Andrew. Love the mist on the water. I sold my wea kayak and bought a whitewater kayak. Mucho fun.

  5. D Breezy - davidthompsonphotography.com (35 months ago | reply)

    dude......this looks cool. love the pov, and that mist is sick! great shot, very creative, i dig it!

  6. Tapani Päkkilä (35 months ago | reply)

    Oh my.... This is awesome! Great work! What kind of bag did you carry your DSLR? Backbag?

  7. Connie Z. Yau (35 months ago | reply)

    Very nice and realistic catch of the morning sunlight.

  8. Popeyee (35 months ago | reply)

    beautiful picture. nice light, nice reflection.

  9. Ewick (35 months ago | reply)

    Very beautiful shot !!! Reflection, tones and compo all is great....

  10. alonsodr (35 months ago | reply)

    Very nice colours and scene

  11. abtabt (35 months ago | reply)

    Nice capture!
    "blend of a 3-shot handheld bracketed exposure", explain more please?

  12. Chip Shotz (35 months ago | reply)

    Wonderful. beautiful and dynamic. This shot brings back memories of my youth.

  13. andrew c mace (35 months ago | reply)


    It just means I set the camera to bracket exposures, the first exposure being properly exposed, the second being underexposed by 2 stops, and the third being overexposed by two stops. I think pretty much every camera has an exposure bracketing feature. I then use Photomatix's Exposure Fusion tool to combine the images. It mimics the effect of using a graduated neutral density filter over the sky so that the foreground appears brighter and more details are visible. Handheld just means that I didn't use a tripod.

  14. andrew c mace (35 months ago | reply)


    I just used my hiking daypack, nothing special, not even waterproof. I initially had my gear in zip-lock bags, but the water was so calm that I didn't need to take much care to cover my gear.

  15. abtabt (35 months ago | reply)

    Thanks andrew! Have tried to blend the photo, but could not get the result as your photo.
    Big learning curve to me :-)

  16. bytegirl24 (35 months ago | reply)

    great light in this one.. the water looks very nice

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  17. CANEOS7E (Eddie) (35 months ago | reply)

    Superb.

  18. Ivan Sohrakoff (35 months ago | reply)

    Wow, man, I'm not even sure how you managed this, but it is really cool. I don't think I knew there was any sort of software to manage a moving exposure HDR thing... Very nice work. Looks like a peaceful kayak trip.

  19. David Baggins (35 months ago | reply)

    Spectacular, great work!

  20. Rafakoy (35 months ago | reply)

    Wow! Terrific capture!! I love the light of the sun and the colors, very nice shot!

  21. *_Alexis (35 months ago | reply)

    Great shot. Really like the mood and the pov...makes me feel like i'm right there on the water.

    Via this upload's page on Fluidr

  22. ranydl (35 months ago | reply)

    Lovely place to explore.

  23. Y~L .... [deleted] (35 months ago | reply)

    nice atmosphere Andrew

  24. Mark Youlden (35 months ago | reply)

    This is a lovely image Andrew.

  25. pinholerenner (33 months ago | reply)

    fantastic image.good to see someone else doing HDR from a kayak.It is worth it!

  26. saquintes (33 months ago | reply)

    Great capture!

  27. andrea.k.e (32 months ago | reply)

    Amazing place!

  28. bertdennisonphotography (32 months ago | reply)

    fantastic photo!

  29. Irina_C (31 months ago | reply)

    love the idea and the atmosphere.

  30. Here in Van Nuys (29 months ago | reply)

    I love this. I don't want to step into any tech talk, but doesn't the D90 have an in-camera feature where you can combine several shots into one?

  31. Neandertalez (29 months ago | reply)

    Perfectly satisfied

  32. andrew c mace (29 months ago | reply)

    -- Not that I'm aware of. Nikon cameras do have an Active D-Lighting option, which is an attempt to increase the dynamic range of a single photo.

  33. m pew (28 months ago | reply)

    !!!

  34. WaysBcn (26 months ago | reply)

    amazing shot

  35. j man ツ (25 months ago | reply)

    Great perspective!

  36. George.m. (24 months ago | reply)

    Awesome Shot :))!

  37. leatherndevil (22 months ago | reply)

    Is this near the source of the Connecticut River.

  38. andrew c mace (22 months ago | reply)

    yes, a few miles south of 4th connecticut lake.

  39. leatherndevil (22 months ago | reply)

    I like the little ripple

  40. Indigo Skies Photography (12 months ago | reply)

    Wonderful capture!

  41. miradel (11 months ago | reply)

    awesome..

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