Sunrise at Branston Water Park

One good thing about having Branston Water park 15 minutes walk from my front door is it is convenient to go to for taking photographs. One of the bad things about sunrise is they happen early so had to get out of bed at 6.30 to get some pictures. I wanted to take some shots of a sunrise and try to use rule of thirds and play about with shutter speeds. What really surprised me was when taking the shutter speed to 1/4000 it gave really dramatic results.

Also whilst taking photographs of the sunrise and not wanting to look straight at the sun I used my cameras "Live View" function which allowed me to see the images in the rear LCD screen and allowed me to frame the shots without being blinded by the sun.

Whilst at the water park I also took pictures of the birds and tried to catch some in flight, although I did capture some Canada Geese in flight was not entirely happy with the results. The issue is I was happy with the exposure of the final shot however wanted to catch the wings without blur. I did not manage the last part, however I know the setting was 1/100 so need to increase this but then change the aperture and ISO to compensate. Hopefully next time I will get the shot I want.

To see a selection of the pictures taken click here.