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Hello All,
This is the famous Pfeiffer Arch. The light only goes into the key hole during mid december or so. Usually there's a huge flock of photogs on the beach all lined up. This has been one of my bucket lists shots since forever. I've never been able to make it to this beach until recently. I scoured a lot of photos online and try to pre-visualize perhaps an original take, since this key hole is pretty photographed to death. So anyhoo, a few friends and I drove down to catch the light and clouds were looking favorable for a sunset blow up. To my surprise when I got to the beach there was only one other photog so that allowed me to get up close to the hole since it was low tide. I've heard stories of people yelling and screaming if you get too close when there are a ton of photogs around but I figure since I was the 2nd guy there and the first guy didn't mind , I'd stake out my spot. As the light went through the hole, I took the safe shots. Light beams, etc. As the sun got closer to the horizon I could pre-visualize the possible burn pattern based on the clouds so I knew I wanted a portrait with the fanning flames and a long FG to draw in. I originally was trying out just a single 16mm vertical shot but people were formed up behind me and I couldn't fit everything in that framing. So I decided to shoot 2 panos horizontally and stitch them later in PS to give me the 3:2 ratio with along FG draw in. I think the shot turned out better than how I expected and at least, it seems like an original take (i think at least).
C&C welcome,
Jason
Inferno Door
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