Since I have no more school and stuff I went out shooting tonight after the storm passed and I figured it would make for great colorful sunset pics over the lake behind my neighborhood. so without anymore waiting.. http://localthelegend.deviantart.com/art/F...oding-124168719 http://localthelegend.deviantart.com/art/A...-Dusk-124167701 http://localthelegend.deviantart.com/art/Stand-Out-124167351 http://localthelegend.deviantart.com/art/d...rouds-124167017 I feel over the past couple of months being in this crew (even tho we dont talk as much as others im guessing) has helped me learn so much and what to look for in my pictures and what to try to do etc. I feel improved hopefully it shows a bit o.o just to say thanks to you all.
Don't like first and last ones. IMO the second and third would look better in black and white, those ones are really nice.
Hmm... I think the main thing is that you have a bright horizon, but the land is so dark. My mind wants to see more in those dark areas. The grass is detracting from the effect. The black and white one would be great if you added contrast to the sky, and removed the boat on the right hand side (messes with the balance and flow). The grass is still throwing me off. The nice thing about the second one is it has a very linear feel, and it's balanced. You have dark on both sides, drawing your eyes back toward the horizon. You're shooting during the very end of what I like to call the "blue hour", which is when there's still light, but the light is actually blue. The blue hour is when you'd want to shoot inside a room with windows, since the exposure will be about even both inside and outside. The blue isn't always attractive in your photos, which is why I'm bringing it up. There's so much blue that the sunset doesn't look so brilliant. If you want, I can write a short blurb on how to do color correction in Photoshop . The photo looks pretty nice if you take some of the blue out. Just after a couple of minutes tweaking (and straightening horizon): http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/4403/local1.jpg Not saying it's necessarily right, I didn't even remove that boat. Just an example of how you can correct sunsets (and I generally have to color correct sunsets because the camera can't quite capture the brilliance anyway). You guys can always feel free to ask me to explain something. Chances are that I'll be able to, and if I can't, I'll figure it out
I realized majority of my problems stem from touching it up in photoshop etc? I went out and got some books to read up on to do the finishing touches etc on a photo hopefully that helps I really dont do much to my photos that I've taken o.o time to read and learn some more stuff lol. ty for explaining that also saint and showing me =]
Hey, I've been telling a lot of people that if they can spare the money, they should get a Lynda.com subscription. Really great information on there, especially specific to photographers who use Photoshop. For sunrise, you should change your white balance somewhere between tungsten (incandescent/3200K) and candlelight. If you can't go below tungsten, then set it to that. The word I'm getting on the internets is that sunset is about 2800-3000K, which is close to tungsten. In layman's terms, your photos will have a truer color during sunset if set to tungsten But you have one better option. Shoot RAW (I'll write something up explaining RAW for everyone)
