Sunrise on the flooded beach.
Sunrise on the flooded beach; Poetto seafront, Cagliari, after a day of heavy downpour and storm surge. The warm light of the sun illuminates the completely flooded beach, making the puddles shine, while the Devil’s Saddle promontory seems to float on a thin and bright line of salty haze.
Three filters were needed to capture this view: a 9-stop solid ND to extend the shutter speed to one and a half minutes; a 2-stop graduated ND to reduce the brightness of the sky; a circular polarizer to make the colors slightly more intense and to darken the portion of the sky at the top right, thus giving more prominence to the light of dawn.