On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 02:05:10PM -0400, Gerrit Visser wrote: > Lovely colours and good composition. The land bit in lower RH corner anchors > the shot to land and I think gives it more context.
Thanks. And I hope that this discussion will save someone else the grief of realizing that they missed the best shot of the sunset. I usually don't get a chance to start photographing until after the peak, because I'll notice the sunset, and it will take me until after the peak until I'm able to start shooting. > > Gerrit > > -----Original Message----- > From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Larry Colen > Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 3:36 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: PESO lesson hopefully learned > > This weekend was my sister's 30 year high school reunion. She and a couple > of friends rented a house down by the yacht harbor for a couple of days. > Last night, I was down there noticed that it was a nice sunset and walked > across the street so I could get some photos of the yacht harbor without > telephone wires in the frame. I took a variety of shots, walked back to the > house and noticed that just as I got back to the house, the colors were > peaking. I went back down to the harbor, but by the time I got there, the > best of the color had faded. > > In the future, when I'm photographing a sunset, I'll try to remember to wait > until after I see the color fading before I give up and quit shooting. > > This one was from after I went back down, I had to shoot a lot tighter so > that I wouldn't get the ugly bits of the sky in the frame. > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/9346186775/ > > I did bracket my shots, and should probably try HDR on some of them. > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
