Indian River Lagoon Sunrise: Driving home this morning and decided to take a picture of the sunrise over the Indian River Lagoon looking toward the barrier islands and the Atlantic.

Blaster34 Loc: Florida Treasure Coast

Driving home this morning and decided to take a picture of the sunrise over the Indian River Lagoon looking toward the barrier islands and the Atlantic. Beautiful morning but somehow this seems to be just so-so and doesn't truly represent what I personally saw, no pizzazz so to speak ....the building is an old dilapidated fish house. Some PP and exported to JPG....comments appreciated and not offended, still learning.

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Doddy Loc: Barnard Castle-England

I know what you mean when the camera doesn't seem to capture what you see Blaster..but this to me is a super shot!

Blaster34 Loc: Florida Treasure Coast

Doddy wrote:

I know what you mean when the camera doesn't seem to capture what you see Blaster..but this to me is a super shot!

Thanks Doddy, you're so correct about what you see and the final outcome.....Guess the human eye is such a marvelous thing

Lagoonguy Loc: New Smyrna Beach, FL

IMO play with it too much in PP and you might lose the mood which is very pleasant and realistic. I live on the Lagoon and the sunrise here is often beautiful, as you know, but the sunrise seems to change very rapidly so maybe the scene changed, due to various possible reasons, in the time it took you to snap the photo. I liked it. Thank you for sharing.

blacks2 Loc: SF. Bay area

Beautiful, fantastic colors.

Blaster34 Loc: Florida Treasure Coast

Lagoonguy wrote:

IMO play with it too much in PP and you might lose the mood which is very pleasant and realistic. I live on the Lagoon and the sunrise here is often beautiful, as you know, but the sunrise seems to change very rapidly so maybe the scene changed, due to various possible reasons, in the time it took you to snap the photo. I liked it. Thank you for sharing.

Thanks Lagoonguy, Absolutely, it changes rapidly here....maybe 10-15 minutes total for the entire sequence and then there are various colors and shades during that 10 minutes.

PhotoKurtz Loc: Carterville, IL

Good that you pulled over. Thanks for sharing!

Blaster34 Loc: Florida Treasure Coast

PhotoKurtz wrote:

Good that you pulled over. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for the comment

Carolina Wings Loc: Flew from North Carolina to Pennsylvania

Blaster34 wrote:

Driving home this morning and decided to take a picture of the sunrise over the Indian River Lagoon looking toward the barrier islands and the Atlantic. Beautiful morning but somehow this seems to be just so-so and doesn't truly represent what I personally saw, no pizzazz so to speak ....the building is an old dilapidated fish house. Some PP and exported to JPG....comments appreciated and not offended, still learning.

Just lovely

EOB Photo

Ditto on a lot of above comments--nice photo. There are a lot of good post processing software's that could help. Most people would look at your photo and believe you need to work on the resolution to improve it. But by doing so, you might increase graininess and lose soft effect around the sun and on the water.

Did you shoot in "Raw" or "regular format"? This looks like a regular format photo--the point is post processing software can help you access more data from your photo, thus improving the pizzazz effect.

So as a suggestion, you need to delve a little deeper into the software and look at functions which will improve clarity, work on intensity, and improve highlights, especially in the sky.

Best of luck.

You may want to give other photographers on this site with more advanced skills permission to modify your photo with post processing and see if you like the results.

Blaster34 Loc: Florida Treasure Coast

IOBPhoto wrote:

Ditto on a lot of above comments--nice photo. Ther... (show quote)

Thanks Job, will do...shot in RAW

ebbote Loc: Hockley, Texas

Beautiful sunrise Blaster.

Blaster34 Loc: Florida Treasure Coast

ebbote wrote:

Beautiful sunrise Blaster.

Thanks Earnest

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Very nice result!

ervinada Loc: Hollywood, Florida

I personally like the shot as is but also would have liked it if you had increased exposure by a half stop or so. Given the sun has topped the horizon I would think that what your eye saw was somewhat brighter than the picture. If your camera is capable of spot metering try taking your next sunrise reading the light just to the left or right of the sun and your image should end up much closer to what your eyes saw; metering directly on the sun will generally cause you to underexpose a bit and give you the silhouette effect. BTW, I'm surprised that no one has told you your horizon is off a bit - I'm not a stickler on horizons unless they are grossly off but in the short time I've been on this site I've been amazed by the number of "horizon" critiques.