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A few sunset photos
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Bobo Hodls
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I like how the 1st turned out, capturing those shadow/rays.
For the others, it's always a trade off between sun expsoure and the surroundings. I like to play with auto white balance on these first, then manual WB tweaking (as well as exposure) to see how such might be presented differently (not sure if that yellow cast was the cast of the moment, or from in camera WB setting).
If you're not shooting RAW, for such extreme DR shots it's worth while to at least attempt to capture one in RAW, for more latitude in making corrections. Also, bracketing exposures (manually or automatically) can be helpful.
For ones such as the first, a Neutral Density Gradient (NDG) filter can help to tame the sky brightness, in order to be able to capture more of the foreground detail (where the FG is not forced into deep shadow).
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You'll have to ignore the gallery's collection of bad compositions, improper exposures, and amateurish post processing.
For the others, it's always a trade off between sun expsoure and the surroundings. I like to play with auto white balance on these first, then manual WB tweaking (as well as exposure) to see how such might be presented differently (not sure if that yellow cast was the cast of the moment, or from in camera WB setting).
If you're not shooting RAW, for such extreme DR shots it's worth while to at least attempt to capture one in RAW, for more latitude in making corrections. Also, bracketing exposures (manually or automatically) can be helpful.
For ones such as the first, a Neutral Density Gradient (NDG) filter can help to tame the sky brightness, in order to be able to capture more of the foreground detail (where the FG is not forced into deep shadow).
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...Bob, NYC
http://www.pbase.com/btullis
You'll have to ignore the gallery's collection of bad compositions, improper exposures, and amateurish post processing.
Bobo Hodls
Forum Pro
Understood. I'm not criticising the latter images, just offering options. Personally, I don't care for that cast, but that's subjective.
Still, the varied exposure (under, on, and over) suggestion applies to future prosumer encounters. Sometimes interesting unanticipated results occur - that is, try to capture the image as best you can, then experiment.
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...Bob, NYC
http://www.pbase.com/btullis
You'll have to ignore the gallery's collection of bad compositions, improper exposures, and amateurish post processing.
Still, the varied exposure (under, on, and over) suggestion applies to future prosumer encounters. Sometimes interesting unanticipated results occur - that is, try to capture the image as best you can, then experiment.
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...Bob, NYC
http://www.pbase.com/btullis
You'll have to ignore the gallery's collection of bad compositions, improper exposures, and amateurish post processing.
HighOctaneSportsPhotos
Well-known member
If you can change the shutter speed, Move it up to say 4000 of a second and you can really get some dramatic and sometimes creepy looking pictures. But play around try 4000 if you dont like got to 6000 or move down.
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Zane Paxton
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A thought for your consideration
Most sunset shots like this are fun to experience and share. The challenge is that they are so 'universal' as opposed to contextual. By universal, that means that every place in the world has sunsets of one sort or another every day. The challenge specifically is that these shots could be just about anywhere on the planet... So it's a pretty but short 'story' to tell. For a more interesting 'story' that engages a viewer more is to include some of the context so that there is a sense of place in the images. The stronger sunset images tend towards revealing something that is totally unique and very specific about a particular place (i.e. context).
Try this, look at a series of sunset shots that are more contextual and measure how long they hold your attention. Then ask what it is about that image that does hold your attention. If you consider the idea of 'story telling' as a metaphor, visual story telling works nicely to engage a viewer.
Perhaps the simpliest was of conveying the idea is to use the universal aspects (clouds, skies, sun i.e. things that occur everywhere) as accents to enhance an expression rather than the main course.
Examples:
http://www.pbase.com/hwatt/image/65628047
Most of these:
http://www.pbase.com/paclopes/seascapes
The pursuit to create powerful images involves asking lots of interesting questions. ;
Hope that helps!
Cheers,
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Zane
http://www.pbase.com/devonshire
Nikon D2x
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M
morris
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Thesea are very nice. The sun is a bit centered for my taste in the last photo.
Morris
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Morris
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thank you for ur response and advice
yea i guess they lack a bit aesthetic quality from my point of view, the colors turned out to be fine but just went a little meaningless. will try to do some more of this work with foreground as well and would love to see ur all reaction on those photos
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yea i guess they lack a bit aesthetic quality from my point of view, the colors turned out to be fine but just went a little meaningless. will try to do some more of this work with foreground as well and would love to see ur all reaction on those photos
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