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A nice sunset from the backyard this evening, so I grabbed the camera and blazed away. 6 images in portrait in the first and 5 images in the second. Having recently moved from the coast I find the sky at sunset in the country quite magnificent at times. You usually don't get such dramatic colours in sunsets along the coast in Australia.
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Really nice colors and contrast.
But my eye keep searching the horizon...i can't help it.
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wjh31 wrote:
very nice. maybe would have been good to have the horizon just peeping in at the base of the image. Did you do anything to enhance the colours?
I can see what you mean by the horizon, but this was literally a 'grab' from the back door and I was only interested in the clouds - I'm a novice with sunsets and these two are experiments to try and get the colour right. In this case to match the colour in the photograph to the colours I was seeing and I'm fairly happy with the result. An horizon from where I took the images would have been dominated by a large shed, fences, houses - urban clutter in other words. Here is another experiment (gone somewhat wrong because the camera setting was accidently not set to manual for the exposure metre), but it gives you an idea of what sunset colours you sometimes encounter here. This was taken during the Victorian bushfires several months ago. Unfortunately the colour in the images that make up the panorama does not quite match, but the overall colour is pretty accurate.
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HI Basil2,
the last image work so much better, the first two, well look at them as abstracts, flip them around and you may have something cool. If you call them sunset, they just don't work for me...also too contrasty for my taste YMMV.
thanks for sharing
Henrik
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Some panoramas, both old and new. The first two were taken on Broughton Island, off Port Stephens in NSW and are simple beach rocks views. Both are handheld panoramas made up each of 5 images in portrait mode.
Trial Bay Gaol is an historic ruin (built 1886) located at South West Rocks on the north coast of NSW. The gaol was built from locally mined pink granite and the prisoners were put to work building a breakwater wall that was finally abandoned as rough seas kept washing it away. The gaol was then closed and reopened during World War I to house interned German citizens plus some POWs from the raider Emden. The first pano shows an internal view of the gaol's structure, 2x4 in landscape. The second shows the view from a guardtower in the gaol wall looking across Trial Bay towards South West Rocks in the distance. The remains of the old prisoner constructed breakwater can be seen on the right side of the panorama, 6 images in portrait.
The last pano was taken of hot air balloons at Leeton, NSW in the softer light of late afternoon.
Thanks,
Bas
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Another, and hopefully better version of the clouds in the first two photos in this post. Only one problem - while the grey/dark grey clouds are a better colour I've lost a lot of the brightness/colour from the pinkish sunlight reflected on the clouds. Any suggestions of how to keep the brighter pink colour without making the grey clouds too dark/contrasty?
Thanks,
Bas
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None that I read, here's something that looks promising that I just googled:
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutori … curves.htm
http://www.photoshopsupport.com/photosh … video.html
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Here is an attempte to describe the easy way to use Curves
This could be named "the single curve way" because the relative brightness of colors is left unchanged. The not so easy way consits in using up to 4 curves at the same time: the RGB one, the red one, the green one and the blue one (that 4 curves are included in this tool is the reason why the name includes the letter "s".)
In a first step using the RGB curve only to adjust brightness and contrast is the way to go.
This is not very difficult, provided:
1) you make some tests first and throw the results in the trash can (they will not be very good, only helpfull to learn)
2) you refrain the temptation to use crazy curves, a lot of points or attempt huge changes (smaller changes than in the following examples are often sufficient, huge changes never work.)
Last edited by GURL (2009-07-05 22:14:02)
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Note:
the third curve above results in an image you could not get by changing the camera settings, even when changing both the exposure and the contrast settings. This is because in this third image the contrast of the darkest values is increased and at the same time the contrast of the brightest values is lowered...
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Another example (where the dark values are brightened and the bright values unchanged.)
Last edited by GURL (2009-07-05 19:39:59)
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