Beautiful sunsets

[Jotho]

At the beach in Cambodia.

 

[serendipidy]

My initial attempts at shooting sunsets with my first dSLR (Canon XSi and EF-S 18-55 kit lens). Dec 2008 Waikiki beach.

 

[tvde]

A white balance experiment

 

[Kernuak]

Watchet Summer Sunset by Kernuak, on Flickr

Orange Dusk at Watchet by Kernuak, on Flickr

 

[Aglet]

Single shot HDR from Nikon D800 taken at Lesser Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada. Summer 2012.
Original jpg from camera is below.

A few more as well from awesome post-storm sunset.

 

[marekjoz]

@Aglet - from what? ;D I mean the first "from"

Black and red photo ( almost ) - I can't dig out so beautiful colors as you guys do


Sunset on the beach by marekjoz, on Flickr

 

[myone]

Here are a couple from me...

 

[Aglet]

@Aglet - from what? ;D I mean the first "from"

Haha! ;D
That's the beauty of using a system with super low noise; take one shot exposed to not clip the highlight areas and bring the rest back in post for an HDR effect without having to try bracket a physically changing scene.

I can't do this kind of shot with my Canon gear without running into serious noise problems in the darker areas. My 7D and 5D2 are terrible at this kind of work. 5D3 isn't much better than 5D2 from my limited testing. Hopefully a few FF body from Canon with improve this.

In fact, I can continue to push the exposure curve in that first shot to the point that the beach in the lower right corner is up to midtones will full detail and only a bit of chroma noise than can be processed out. An impressive imaging machine, that's why I bought one and that's whey my Canon gear gets used less.

 

[nightbreath]

@Aglet - from what? ;D I mean the first "from"

Haha! ;D
That's the beauty of using a system with super low noise; take one shot exposed to not clip the highlight areas and bring the rest back in post for an HDR effect without having to try bracket a physically changing scene.

I can't do this kind of shot with my Canon gear without running into serious noise problems in the darker areas. My 7D and 5D2 are terrible at this kind of work. 5D3 isn't much better than 5D2 from my limited testing. Hopefully a few FF body from Canon with improve this.

In fact, I can continue to push the exposure curve in that first shot to the point that the beach in the lower right corner is up to midtones will full detail and only a bit of chroma noise than can be processed out. An impressive imaging machine, that's why I bought one and that's whey my Canon gear gets used less.

You'd be surprised to hear that others see a lot of room in workflow with current gear. Don't let your tools limit yourself

 

[Kernuak]

@Aglet - from what? ;D I mean the first "from"

Haha! ;D
That's the beauty of using a system with super low noise; take one shot exposed to not clip the highlight areas and bring the rest back in post for an HDR effect without having to try bracket a physically changing scene.

I can't do this kind of shot with my Canon gear without running into serious noise problems in the darker areas. My 7D and 5D2 are terrible at this kind of work. 5D3 isn't much better than 5D2 from my limited testing. Hopefully a few FF body from Canon with improve this.

In fact, I can continue to push the exposure curve in that first shot to the point that the beach in the lower right corner is up to midtones will full detail and only a bit of chroma noise than can be processed out. An impressive imaging machine, that's why I bought one and that's whey my Canon gear gets used less.

I didn't have problems with noise in my shots, they were with a 5D MkIII, no problems with a MkII either. That's what grad filters are for.

 

[Aglet]

I didn't have problems with noise in my shots, they were with a 5D MkIII, no problems with a MkII either. That's what grad filters are for.

I like the shots you posted, which look like NDgrad at capture?..

When possible I'd rather apply ND grad in post. The first sunset shot I posted used 2 mild ones applied in LR3 + fill light and +EV.

The other 2 shots have NO filters, capture or post, just color and contrast. I was shooting fast, got about a dozen wicked images in about 2 minutes, various orientations, while also hand-holding my 60D which I used for about 50 shots over a longer period. I can't wing an ND grad that fast if I wanted to. The 60D's shots all look great too, no need to push any shadows all the time.

That first shot tho - I know no way in hades my 5D2 could do that. It's too noisy. Push 2 EV with it and it's already showing plaid shadows.

 

[Kernuak]

Thanks. Yep, they were with two 3 stop grads (some were probably less).

 

[Sameer Thawani]

Pitbullo, - love love love your first shot!

 

[Sad_Dave]

Unbelievable but this picture was taken in november 2011

 

[DJL329]

Here's a nice one from last month using the 5D Mark III and the 50mm f/1.4.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/43086792@N03/7978603899/#

 

[killswitch]

Here's a couple of shots from me, taken with the 60D and Tokina 11-16mm


As We Go Down by Dhanad Islam, on Flickr


Bindu by Dhanad Islam, on Flickr

 

[crash]

A shot from my summer vacation - a place called Sunset Island.

 

[deafmtbiker]

Sunset at Brasstown Bald in North Georgia

 

[blonigan16]

I took this one on a drive back to Zürich from a weekend up in the alps. The lake is the Vierwaldstättersee.
The second one I took just a few minutes away from my house

 

[marekjoz]

Sunset over the Baltic Sea by marekjoz, on Flickr