Justin Oh Wedding Photography

Another weekend, another great shoot! It has been awhile since we last went out for a sunrise shoot again so I thought why not head out to Forresters Beach to test the waters, so to speak We started our 1 1/2 hour drive at 4am in the morning, armed with lots of Red Bull and chocolate bars to keep us occupied and our tummies from grumbling. I think I had a little too much Red Bull that morning and was somewhat hyper on the way there too

We got there at first light, quickly parked the cars and hastily made our way to the spot via a short but tiring walk on the sand. It doesn’t help when you’re carrying almost 10kg’s worth of equipment either

I was of course excited since this is my first outing with the 5D Mark II and 16-35 lens. Here are the shots from the shoot

First light

Same scene, different exposure and a cooler post processing method

More clouds would’ve been better but a great location and a great sunrise nevertheless

Pink clouds, my favourite in any sunrise or sunset

This is probably my favourite shot, full of drama

Behind the scene

The sun above the horizon

I like how the golden light paints the rocks

Jeff emptying his shoe full of sand

My lonely tripod

Jeff and Alex posing for the camera

The tide rising!

More behind the scenes

As the tide rose, the water started making its way inwards separating us from the group!

Then I thought why not take more photos while waiting till the water is low enough to pass through

Jeff trying out different compositions

While exploring I found this puddle of water

After awhile Jeff and I rejoined the group. You can see here how much water made its way through from the edge of the rocks

Picture of me setting up the tripod for a group shot

As always, a group shot for every outing Thankfully I brought the flash out for some much needed fill in lighting. I exposed for the background and flash manually set to 1/2 power to fill the foreground

Definitely another great day out shooting! Now that the group has expanded the shoots are getting much more fun with more of us around. Thanks guys for making it such a fun trip! It made it so trivial getting my whole left foot covered in water and having endure it the whole 1 1/2 hour drive back to Sydney. As per our tradition, big breakfast all round was next

A brief review on the 16-35 II combo with the 5D Mark II:

The 21.1mp sensor on the 5D II is remarkable and the amount of detail captured is just astounding. Definitely a huge difference from my 40D and 10-22 combo. I guess I finally understood why those who made the move to a Full Frame sensor never look back. The 16-35 II is very sharp and reproduces nice, contrasty colors. My only gripe about the lens is the drop of sharpness around the corners but it’s something I can live with. I spent a good amount of time looking through the images at 100% and I’m constantly amazed with the amount of detail captured. The jpeg images posted up here really don’t do it any justice at all.