OT - Sunset on another world

BlueCorn

BlueCorn

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I'm in Monterey this weekend. We spent all day at Point Lobos crawling around tide pools and hiking. This was sunset last night. This is just the default RAW conversion from Lightroom; i.e. I haven't touched any other adjustments. It was, however, highly manipulated in-camera. I'm using a Singh-Ray Gold-n-Blue polarizer, a 3 stop hard split grad and a 3 stop soft split grad, all stacked together.

Cheers

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Great shot Doug...
That had to be one of the most dramatic sunsets I have seen on the peninsula. Im glad you captured it!
 
Gorgeous!! I love the colors and composition couldn't have been more perfect.
 
Wow I like this one even better. I think the grad filters clash with the rocks a littler easier. I would happily frame either on my wall.
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That is so neat! I like how you got the two primary colors in the first shot, but wonder how that would be possible in the first place? Wouldn't the sky's redness reflect off the tide pools, or was it blue above you and that is simply how the camera perceives it?

When I was taking pictures at the Japanese Gardens, I noticed how the sky was one color, yet the water reflected differently. Not that they have to match, but your picture really points that out.

Enjoy your vacation. :thumbsup: And bring us back more pictures. :D
 
Absolutely stunning...

I don't suppose you could upload a higher resolution file somewhere for wallpaper use? :D
 
Amazing.
You've mentioned in the past that you often handhold your filters, rather than mounting them. Were you doing that for these?
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13898488#post13898488 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Wolverine
Amazing.
You've mentioned in the past that you often handhold your filters, rather than mounting them. Were you doing that for these?
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Thanks!

No different story here. The polarizer is a screw mount but I'm hand holding the split-grads.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13897392#post13897392 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by melev
That is so neat! I like how you got the two primary colors in the first shot, but wonder how that would be possible in the first place? Wouldn't the sky's redness reflect off the tide pools, or was it blue above you and that is simply how the camera perceives it?
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There was blue behind me and straight above me. I was also pretty wide at that point so I was almost on top of that pool in the foreground. I used the gold-n-blue polarizer to pull that out. The orange of the sky is also exaggerated by the 6 stops of ND filter.
 
I cleaned up the white balance on those first two now that I'm back home. Here are a few more from the same trip:

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Nice Doug - I totally dig the way you used those rocks to lead the viewer right into that scene on the first shot of these last ones.
 
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