I wanted to call this photo: End of a Resolution, since this marks the end of my New Year's Resolution, where I said I would not take any more colourful sunsets. Oh well. Life goes on...
Taken on my way back from the Ormstown fair, with the whole family in the car. I spotted this sunset shinning over the river, and had to double back and take a few shots. My wife and kids thought I was crazy, as I jumped the guard rail and trudged through the long grass on the side of the highway, in order to get a slightly less obstructed view.
Shot in JPEG mode (unfortunately) using my 28-105mm @ 28mm, handheld.
In PS7: Used a technique I learned on Luminous Landscape to create a blended exposure. The only difference is I used only one image. Here's how: Created 2nd layer. Darkened the 2nd layer (using levels) to bring out the colours and detail in the sky. Created a mask on the 2nd layer using the lighter under-layer (as described here). Flattened and saved as Tiff to send it to NeatImage to clean it up a little. Back to PS7 for some more slight levels, crop, saturation, resize, USM, and border. Also cleaned up a little funny reflection in the water using the healing brush tool. A little burning in the blue portion of the sky, and a little desaturation (using the sponge tool) to remove some greenish colours in the sky.
One of my first blended exposures. I think it works well.
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Gorgeous colours, lovely reflection. However, it looks like your horizon is rotated. Maybe that's just an illusion, but it's not enough to mark you down much. 7.
Very stunning sky colors here. Nicely captured, but a bit on the boring side. I'm not sure what I would do differently. I guess it would depend on what's available. Maybe focus more on one thing instead of the whole line of dark trees? In anycase, it looks like you got to enjoy a great sunset.
Wonderful colorful sky and reflection. I'd just love to see something in the foreground to set this off, a boat with a fisherman, some ducks... to give the forground a focal point. But you can't control what's there when you are taking a picture and this is a gorgeous sunset.
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