Malibu Dawn
Matador Beach is by far my favorite beach in Malibu. It's hidden out of sight from the Pacific Coast Highway, and only a tiny street sign shows the way (unlike all the big crowded beaches with their big advertisement). Makes this the perfect hidden gem of serenity.
This was shot at the blue hour just before sunrise, when the sky is already illuminated enough to give plenty ambient light, but the sun isn't out yet. For landscape photographers, this light is the reason to get up painfully early.
This was shot at the blue hour just before sunrise, when the sky is already illuminated enough to give plenty ambient light, but the sun isn't out yet. For landscape photographers, this light is the reason to get up painfully early.
Example Renders:
- All examples rendered in Modo, no external postprocessing.
- Rendered using 8K background pano (included in all 3 license levels).
- Lighting on this location is highly spacially varying. Depending on where an object is placed (elevated path or bottom of the beach), some manual tweaks of the HDR intensity may be needed.
- Ford and Cubebot models provided by Christophe Desse.
- Natalie model provided by Andrew Silke.
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34.0380860, -118.8752580
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