Helpful Posts: I have been in the Essex River in Massachusetts twice in the past month and got more than a few wonderful sunrise and sunset shots. Here are three of my favorites. The colors are close to natural. I actually decreased the saturation a tad in the sunrise; it was unbelievably yellow. The HDR was taken hand-held using auto bracket and then processed in CS4. I deliberately avoided the HDR look and just took advantage of the added dynamic range for getting detail in the grass.
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Thread: Two Sunsets and a Sunrise
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14th September 2012, 01:58 AM #1
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Two Sunsets and a Sunrise
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14th September 2012, 02:03 AM #2
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Re: Two Sunsets and a Sunrise
I like the composition in the last one as my favorite.
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14th September 2012, 02:25 AM #3
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They are all three beautiful shots. I think you did a great job with the colors and composition. I especially like the first one because it looks the most natural to me. I wonder though, is it tilted ever so slightly? I really love them all.
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14th September 2012, 02:27 AM #4
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Beautiful Color!!
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14th September 2012, 01:30 PM #5Moderator
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Like others above have suggested, these are very impressive images.
I think the sky in the first one is just fantastic - not just the yellow at the horizon, but also the cloud higher up. Glorious.
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14th September 2012, 01:37 PM #6
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Re: Two Sunsets and a Sunrise
All are very nice, though the first one is really magical for me.
I wonder if you're using a Nikon camera, as my experience has also been that I have had to tone down the red channel sometimes in images such as these. Perhaps that's true with all manufacturers' sensors, but I have only shot Nikon cameras.
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14th September 2012, 11:59 PM #7
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Thank you for your comments. The camera was a GH2, which does not normally over saturate in any particular color. I think the intense yellows and oranges in the sunrises was just due to the very yellow light. On the horizon of #1, I think you're right. I have it tipped a little. The GH2 has a grid you can turn on in the electric view finder, which I use, but I still always correct in PP. In this case, I think I miss-judged the horizon, which is difficult to determine because the shore line is not straight. Easy to fix in Lr.
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15th September 2012, 12:25 AM #8
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All very nice indeed.
Dave
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15th September 2012, 01:10 AM #9
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Wonderful images, Homer. Keep up the great work.
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