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Glenelg sunset
Posted:
Tue Feb 27, 2007 4:44 amby hart
First attempt at taking sunset photographs - discovered dust bunnies
This was the best of a few dozen shots taken. No PP.
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Cheers
Leigh
Posted:
Tue Feb 27, 2007 7:55 amby fozzie
Leigh - I would like to see a tighter crop, and reduce the amount of yellow sky.
Dust bunnies - you might want to invest in the DIY kit, at the following website:
http://www.qualitycamera.com.au/product ... ts_id=1351
fozzie
Posted:
Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:01 amby hart
By tighter crop do you mean zoomed in further or actually PP cropped? Sadly my 70-200mm was wound out to the max to get this shot
Time for a 1.6x teleconverter!
Posted:
Tue Feb 27, 2007 11:29 amby dawesy
Personally I don't mind the crop. While a bit tighter will get the sun to be more of a focal point, I think the way it is really shows the enormity of the vista. A massive expanse with nothing but the contrast of colours to separate water from sky. I do like the colour of that sky too.
Posted:
Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:06 pmby Oz_Beachside
Glenelg is a wonderful place. I remember 75% of the evenings had beautiful sunsets when I lived there for 6 months a few years back.
I only have shots from my 1mp sony cyber shot (lots of lens flare)
Posted:
Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:29 pmby hart
Thanks dawesy - my eyes hurt for the rest of the evening, talk about suffering for your art. I cannot recommend staring into the sun through a high quality telephoto lens. I took around 100 shots using a variety of white balance, iso, aperture and shutter speed settings (including a bunch using AEB). This was the best of a poor lot I'm afraid - the clouds / haze just didn't yield a nice sunset unfortunately.
Posted:
Tue Feb 27, 2007 11:10 pmby Alpha_7
hart please look after your eyes, there are somethings that aren't worth sacrificing for a photo. I'd rather not take another shot but still have years of enjoying others work, then to make myself blind trying to get the perfect sunset shot.. (did you have a tripod?) that would atleast reduce how much exposure your eyes got...
Posted:
Tue Feb 27, 2007 11:13 pmby hart
Alpha_7 wrote:hart please look after your eyes, there are somethings that aren't worth sacrificing for a photo.
Agreed - I won't be doing that again in a hurry
(did you have a tripod?) that would atleast reduce how much exposure your eyes got...
My trusty Manfreddy was at my side - it helped a lot actually
