What’s Up?
Stayed up on Steptoe Butte for a great sunset after a great afternoon of canola field photography and learning. Got back to the room at 10:07pm. Started and finished this short blog post before bed at 10:40pm. My alarm is set for 3:30am. Gotta hit the sack.
The Streak
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This image was created on the evening of Day 3 of the second Palouse IPT with the Induro GIT 304L/Mongoose M3.6-mounted Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM lens (at 70mm) and the mega mega-pixel Canon EOS 5DS R . ISO 400. Sunset clouds… |
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The fact that it is a sunset is typical Arthur Morris since you really enjoy photographing sunsets. Other than that, it is not typical Arthur Morris but I kinda like it. I like all of the colors and the soft dreamy bands of clouds.
Artie I like your picture and the colors. But I have seen too many sunrises and sunsets. When I take one I try and add something lone tree or windmill. As for the colors Ruth they probably are very real I have taken sunsets in the Ne Sand Hills and the colors are very unreal fantastic hard not to shoot when you see those colors.I know probably nothing that you could have added to this scene .As always like the Blog .
I think the color fits the theme you have with the genre of shooting and as such fits. However, I would have preferred to see this scene with the sun on the horizon (last light sunburst)… granted that would have been a good bit more problematic for an in camera HDR shot though.
Did that last week. The sun was too bright to photograph safely…
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I don’t know…. I don’t love it. It seems like a sunset/sunrise picture. I’ve seen many with similar colors/composition. It doesn’t pop to me as special, the way the vast majority of your work does.
It seems like an exceptionally magical moment. Not a magical picture. To me, the magic of a sunrise or sunset is in its constant changing colors/clouds/light. Its awfully hard to capture that ephemeralness, the fleeting nature of it, in a picture. I don’t really get that from this picture.
Its really lovely, but amongst the great stuff you show, it feels kind of pedestrian.
Nice composition, but not a big fan of how the colors look. I have tried used HDR on my 7DMK11 with scenics and had the same results. The colors were way too saturated and not a true representation of what I was looking at. This photo looks like I brought the imagine into lightroom and moved the vibrance, and saturation sliders way to the right. Other than that what’s not to like about the photo!
The composition is good, but the image looks like it has had a “posterize” filter applied. I am not a fan of this look, sorry.
Love the composition, the color differences divides the image into thirds. I have been to Steptoe many times but never had a sunset this vivid. Reminds me of a sunrise at Bosque. Love the saturated colors.
How long was the exposure and at what f/stop?
Absolutely gorgeous sunset image!
Looking at it from top to bottom, I love how the top darker cloud is very washed, and as your eye goes down towards the horizon, it gets sharper. Also, I like the tiny amount of distant mountains on the right – makes it more interesting than if it were just a completely level horizon. simply breathtaking shot!
Thanks. In-camera HDR +/- 2 stops around +1 2/3 stops was a base exposure of 1/15 sec. at f/6.3.
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I like the overall design and composition. The anchor band definitely adds to the image. The vivid colours appear “overly purple” and seemingly unnatural, but is it so?
You had to be there to tell 🙂 IAC, it was spectacular.
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I like the bands of color. The darker band at the bottom serves as an anchor. As for the colors themselves they are similar to what I see over the Atlantic just prior to sunrise or over the gulf after sunset.
John
We get these colours in Scotland! For me the impact might be greater if the blue at the top were reduced by a wider crop,say 16:9? Perhaps a shot with more of the orb of the sun showing, ie taken earlier, although I recognise the light might not have been as good then.
I simply do not believe it. The colors seem to me exaggerated and artificial.
Ruthie