Wierd sunset the other week

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Wierd sunset the other week

Postby BullcreekBob on Tue Jan 24, 2006 12:29 am

G'day

I know that us *newbies* love wasting time and film trying to take sunset photo's, and I've sort of tried not to. But the light was definately wierd a few weeks ago so I ran inside grabbed the camera and pointed.

I put the flash on to try lighting the foreground some, but that failed. I've done some playing in Photoshop but come up with nothing satisfactory.

This is the basic capture

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Can you give some advise please on what PP to do (and how) in Photoshop.

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Postby Marvin on Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:50 am

I would actually make the foreground darker as it doesn't appear too interesting. The contrast of the shadow with the red sky looks good to me. An interesting coloured sky!
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Postby Ree on Tue Jan 24, 2006 11:09 am

I agree with Marvin, make the foreground darker! The colours of the setting sun is what the photo is ALL about. Lovely pic!
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