ciao998

Was coming home from a friends this evening, and cresting a hill found a good spot to take a couple pictures.

Cropped, and played with the temp on this



This one just cropped.



And one unprocessed.



Hope you enjoy ....................JOhn

eric

Nice.


One thing I'd do, especially since you're already cropping the first two, is to make sure the horizon is straight. I took the last pic and cropped it straight:



Also, if you don't have a tripod you can try setting the camera on the car or something so you can expose it a bit longer. I saw nice sunsets today, but had no camera :(

Robusto

will a longer exposure "enrichen the colors" of a sunset?

To my eyes, a camera never seems to capture the richness of the colors that the eye sees.

nice pics btw!

eric

In his case, yes. You can also occasionally use a polarizer (sometimes it helps with sunsets) or a sunset filter (basically brings out the reds.) Lastly you can bring out the colors in pp.

jezterr

polarizer for any kind of sky related images helps, as it cuts through haze and saturates colors.

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ciao998

Thanks Eric, that looks great

Just got a tri-pod, and new lens, but I had to pee so bad I didnt get it on timer, and used my old crappy lens, lol.

Remote, hood, filters, are ordered. I'll have to figure out how to make the horizon paralel to the frame. I can crop, dunno how to do anything more advanced than that, lol......................John

ciao998

when I took these I was in a huge rush, but it seemes as I could enrich the reds it took away from the ice blues above, and anything in between did seem a bit dull =(. Polarizer on the way though................JOhn