Unbelievably straight-from-camera exposure, processed from RAW with strong contrast and color saturation, slight tweak of the hue in the red channel, sharpening is basically all there is. I threw a very slight gradient down from the top as well to contain the image a bit.
Edit: upon reflection, I decided to do a separate edit on the foreground to bring more life to the water, with levels and saturation adjustments, Someone remind me to post the first version after, please :-)
There's also a heavily-cropped version of a similar shot, zeroed in on the sun with a stronger reflection trail, that may better-suit the "stare_at" aspect of the name, but this image is so much stronger compositionally I went with it.
It had been my intention to shoot crab_appl, but I couldn't find any crabs, amazingly enough. I was gonna let this one slide, but today's sunset was outrageous so I just grabbed a stare at the sun :-)
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A breathtaking sunset, complete with almost the full circle of the sun... I wish there were people in the picture to represent "stare at the sun" as the username suggests.
Beautiful and enchanting. A minor suggestion: I would have cloned out the magenta area right across with the dark. Magenta is just not seen in such purity in sunsets. However, I love the image and that is just a minor point. Bumping up.
All of the "stare at the sun images" are good, and this one is exceptional.......I luv this, and with so many very good images in this challange, this should still do real well, and may even ribbon I hope.......................
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