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Sep 7, 2019 14:45:14 #

johngault007 Loc: Florida Panhandle

Hello All,
I am still very new to photography and even more so post processing. I have trouble liking this photo apart from the emotional value of being there on the beach and experiencing the sunset.

Camera: Canon T7i
Lens: 24mm f/2.4
Post: Darktable

C&C welcome.

Thanks!

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Sep 7, 2019 15:23:26 #

drivered Loc: Capital District, NY

Very nice.

Sep 7, 2019 15:33:29 #

mudduck

one trick to get better color in sky photos is to shoot 2 F stops darker than your meter reading. worked on film should do the trick on digital.

Sep 7, 2019 16:50:06 #

johngault007 Loc: Florida Panhandle

drivered wrote:

Very nice.

Appreciate the kind words, thank you!

Sep 7, 2019 16:50:10 #

R.G. Loc: Scotland

The sun and the area round the sun are blown. Exposure bracketing could have avoided that. Fixing it in post might be difficult. The rest of the shot is fine.

Sep 7, 2019 16:51:03 #

johngault007 Loc: Florida Panhandle

mudduck wrote:

one trick to get better color in sky photos is to shoot 2 F stops darker than your meter reading. worked on film should do the trick on digital.

Thank you for the tip. I was trying to practice some ETTR techniques and I think it didn't work with this shot. I will try your advice next time I go out.

Sep 7, 2019 16:53:08 #

johngault007 Loc: Florida Panhandle

R.G. wrote:

The sun and the area round the sun are blown. Exposure bracketing could have avoided that. Fixing it in post might be difficult. The rest of the shot is fine.

Thanks! You're right, I tried PP to reduce to the exposure, but it left the sun pretty ugly and unnatural. I have other shots that I did bracket, but for some reason didn't do it for this one.

Sep 7, 2019 17:49:54 #

cheineck Loc: Hobe Sound, FL

Great start... and finish! Keep on Truckin'

Sep 7, 2019 17:50:09 #

cheineck Loc: Hobe Sound, FL

Great start... and finish! Keep on Truckin'

Sep 8, 2019 05:44:34 #

J-SPEIGHT Loc: Akron, Ohio

johngault007 wrote:

Nice shot.

Sep 8, 2019 08:18:07 #

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

The image is fine. At 1/25 sec shutter, you're right at the edge for begin too slow for the movement of the water. The sun is fine, but the details of the foam in the foreground (the image details we can "see" without the sun directly in our eye) are just a little soft, where maybe they'd be sharper with a faster shutter, even if just 1/40 or 1/50. It's also unclear where exactly the focus was placed, and where the viewer's eyes should fall. If we follow the sun down and toward the shore, we hit the foam at the lower 1/3 intersection. But, we don't find the 'sharp focus' at that point. The water is a bit soft, maybe the slow shutter. One bit of foam is better than the other, again maybe from the water movement, but it still doesn't seem like the lens was focused there specifically.

Sep 8, 2019 12:16:58 #

johngault007 Loc: Florida Panhandle

CHG_CANON wrote:

The image is fine. At 1/25 sec shutter, you're rig... (show quote)

Thanks for all of info! Being that the camera was pretty close to the ground on a tripod, I think I may have tried to focus somewhere on the water to get the whole scene reasonably focused, but like you said, the shutter speed was a bit slow, and softened the water a little much.

I might have accepted softer water as a compromise to the blown out sun. Thank you all for the tips and critique. I will go back out to that spot and work on some of the things mentioned here for sure.

Sep 8, 2019 17:08:43 #

John from gpwmi Loc: Michigan

You've gotten some good advice from some of the forum experts, as I often have. That's one of the great things about UHH. I can't add anything.

Sep 8, 2019 20:55:37 #

DeanS Loc: Capital City area of North Carolina

Try focusing directly on the sun on your next shot like this Will be easoer to correct in post.

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