[Recovered Thread: 80871]

[Andrew LB]

No post processing, cropping, etc.

Camera: Canon Digital Rebel XT w/75-300mm 4-5.6 lens. I set the camera on the wooden railing of the Seal Beach pier to keep it as stable as i could. Too much wind for my crappy tripod which has a stripped fastener. I ordered this one yesterday... is it another POS or will it serve its purpose? http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/cont...goryNavigation

Shooting mode: Program AE
Shutter Speed: 1/200
Aperture Value: 5.6
Exposure Compensation: 0
ISO Speed: 200
Focal Length: 105.0mm
White Balance: Auto

I've got a bunch of cool shots like this. I took about 50 shots over a period of about 45 minutes starting before the sun setting till just after dark.

[peripatetic]

Nice shot.

I think that the top and bottom elements don't add much, and cropping leaves a nice panoramic feel to the shot.

I would also clone out the distracting mast on the horizon.

Apart from that a contrast boost to make the boat appear more in silhouette and a slight saturation boost too to really emphasise the sky.

Bit of sharpening too.

I think it's a winner. Definitely worth a print.

[VAtechtigger]

Im not a fan of the new crop peri, too much off the bottom I think. It takes away the sense that its water, along with totally blackening the water with the contrast boost.


This is a real nice shot you have andrew.

[stustaff]

Beautiful colours but lacking a subject for me, If the only 'point/subject' of the photo is the sunset then for me it needs to be an outstanding sunset to me this seems like a "nice" sunset.

Looking at it again now I think it may be down to the clouds? no real shape or substanc to them.

[Andrew LB]

As for boring clouds... welcome to southern california. And to be honest, most of that is smog.... not actual clouds.

Here are a few more I took that evening.

[frenchy]

I really like the colours you've got in no. 2 of the second post. I'd crop off those balconies to the left, though, and just leave the pier in. Maybe also get rid of that figure I can just make out and sharpen it up a bit.

Great shot, though.

[Hards80]

i like the 2nd and the last shots of the 2nd sets best.. great colors.. and i love the layered look with the shorebirds on the last one.. the last shot was shot at a bit high of iso though..

good set, particularly the last ones..

-dustin

[julies517]

beautiful color you captured here, i agree with dustin the second set is very nice.

[Aumma45]

Beautiful, keep them coming.

[Andrew LB]

Hmm.... IIRC i shot almost all my photos that night at ISO200.

.... i just checked the RAW images and the birds were shot at ISO200. Some of the others were done at 400. Only a couple of the very early shots were done at 100.