minniev wrote:
Oh goody! I love these threads about composition and sunsets/sunrises are my favorite times to shoot so I've experienced plenty of challenges to share and learn from. This was my all time favorite sunset and it didn't happen in a preferred travel location - when I got a call to check the sky, I had 10 minutes to get to the only open water area anywhere around, left home with no shoes, wrong lens, no tripod (old age has its issues, worse when excited). But when your hometown sky looks like the sunset scene from Life of Pi, you just go.
There are no foreground possibilities or interesting subjects here which I knew beforehand, so I made up foreground out of dead water lilies and background out of the little island, but the real subject was the sky. Yes, it would be better to have the more interesting elements to work with like I have found in Yosemite and Acadia (our reservoir sure ain't Pfeiffer Beach). My question is, how can you make the most out of very little?
The first has a little LR processing to make up for the fact that I didn't bring a grad filter (and a crop for the metal print I had made) but the second is pretty much SOC since the sun was no longer challenging me. I've never known what else to do with them in PP so I just didn't. I shot till the last light vanished, because I figured if I'd waited 65 years for this one, odds are I won't make it to the next!
Oh goody! I love these threads about composition a... (
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