Beautiful sunsets

[DominoDude]

There seems to be a panache here on CR for under exposed sunsets so here's one of mine: swans on the River Stour as evening falls.

Beautiful picture.

I think that sunsets are a subject that if you expose properly for, with lots of DR and shadow detail, suck! Photographed like yours is, there is a mood, a serenity.... it would be lost otherwise.

Thanks Don and Click. Don , you are right. Under exposure can be very effective in these types of scene. In fact I tried re doing my picture from Flatford Mill - Willie Lott's Cottage where Constable painted his most famous picture; 'The Hay Wain', using some lesser exposed frames, and I think it gives a picture with good atmos. ( It is a sunset after all).

Now, that's an amazing, and inspiring, photo! Very moody, and extremely pleasing to the eye.

 

[FEBS]

Here are a few sunset I took during the last month.

 

[Click]

Here are a few sunset I took during the last month.

I really like the 4th one. Nicely done FEBS

 

[Sporgon]

In the spirit of our under exposed sunset theme I gave one of my Alde boat pictures a darker curve and then brushed back the boats.

I think it has improved it actually.

 

[Click]

In the spirit of our under exposed sunset theme I gave one of my Alde boat pictures a darker curve and then brushed back the boats.

I think it has improved it actually.

I love the reflection. Beautiful.

 

[Aglet]

In the spirit of our under exposed sunset theme I gave one of my Alde boat pictures a darker curve and then brushed back the boats.

I think it has improved it actually.

+1, slightly increases the color saturation in areas which is subjectively pleasant.

 

[NancyP]

Nice image, Sporgon. Is that your neck of the woods, or are you a music tourist?

 

[lion rock]

Sporgon,
Willie Lotte's Cottage is so beautiful, idyllic ... I could live there and die there, and be happy!
You shot a wonderful photo with all the right mood.
-r

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Thanks Don and Click. Don , you are right. Under exposure can be very effective in these types of scene. In fact I tried re doing my picture from Flatford Mill - Willie Lott's Cottage where Constable painted his most famous picture; 'The Hay Wain', using some lesser exposed frames, and I think it gives a picture with good atmos. ( It is a sunset after all).
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[Sporgon]

In the spirit of our under exposed sunset theme I gave one of my Alde boat pictures a darker curve and then brushed back the boats.

I think it has improved it actually.

I love the reflection. Beautiful.

Many thanks Click, Aglet & Lion Rock.

Sporgon,
Willie Lotte's Cottage is so beautiful, idyllic ... I could live there and die there, and be happy!
You shot a wonderful photo with all the right mood.
-r

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Thanks Don and Click. Don , you are right. Under exposure can be very effective in these types of scene. In fact I tried re doing my picture from Flatford Mill - Willie Lott's Cottage where Constable painted his most famous picture; 'The Hay Wain', using some lesser exposed frames, and I think it gives a picture with good atmos. ( It is a sunset after all).
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Yes it is a very beautiful, peaceful place and has been well preserved by National Trust. It's not that dissimilar now to how it was when Constable's father owned the mill. except that the pond where he painted the horses and cart - The Hay Wain - is now about two feet deeper than it was two hundred years ago because that part of England is sinking !

 

[Sporgon]

Nice image, Sporgon. Is that your neck of the woods, or are you a music tourist?

;D Thanks Nancy, are you referring to Benjamin Britten ? No I don't live near there, I'm in the North of England, and I'm afraid that Benjamin Britten is about the last composer I would travel to either listen to or haunt his local. Hope he wasn't a relative of yours ! My dislike probably stems from doing a Britten opera at school, Noye's Fludde, and it was just - well, noise !

If you are familiar with Aldeburgh I did a few panoramics which have been lost to filing and never used, so I'll show them here for you. They are actually sunrises but still in the spirit of the thread. The stainless steel shell sculpture caused a lot of controversy with the locals apparently. It has cut into it some of the lyrics from Britten's Peter Grimes: " I hear those voices that will not be drowned". I presume it is a memorial to both Britten and those that have lost their lives at sea working out of the fishing town.

 

[DominoDude]

Nice image, Sporgon. Is that your neck of the woods, or are you a music tourist?

;D Thanks Nancy, are you referring to Benjamin Britten ? No I don't live near there, I'm in the North of England, and I'm afraid that Benjamin Britten is about the last composer I would travel to either listen to or haunt his local. Hope he wasn't a relative of yours ! My dislike probably stems from doing a Britten opera at school, Noye's Fludde, and it was just - well, noise !

If you are familiar with Aldeburgh I did a few panoramics which have been lost to filing and never used, so I'll show them here for you. They are actually sunrises but still in the spirit of the thread. The stainless steel shell sculpture caused a lot of controversy with the locals apparently. It has cut into it some of the lyrics from Britten's Peter Grimes: " I hear those voices that will not be drowned". I presume it is a memorial to both Britten and those that have lost their lives at sea working out of the fishing town.

You are outdoing yourself, Sporgon!
That shell is a true work of art. I hope you make money on shots like these - you deserve it.

 

[rpt]

Nice image, Sporgon. Is that your neck of the woods, or are you a music tourist?

;D Thanks Nancy, are you referring to Benjamin Britten ? No I don't live near there, I'm in the North of England, and I'm afraid that Benjamin Britten is about the last composer I would travel to either listen to or haunt his local. Hope he wasn't a relative of yours ! My dislike probably stems from doing a Britten opera at school, Noye's Fludde, and it was just - well, noise !

If you are familiar with Aldeburgh I did a few panoramics which have been lost to filing and never used, so I'll show them here for you. They are actually sunrises but still in the spirit of the thread. The stainless steel shell sculpture caused a lot of controversy with the locals apparently. It has cut into it some of the lyrics from Britten's Peter Grimes: " I hear those voices that will not be drowned". I presume it is a memorial to both Britten and those that have lost their lives at sea working out of the fishing town.

You are outdoing yourself, Sporgon!
That shell is a true work of art. I hope you make money on shots like these - you deserve it.

+1

Lovely pictures Sporgon!

 

[Sporgon]

Nice image, Sporgon. Is that your neck of the woods, or are you a music tourist?

;D Thanks Nancy, are you referring to Benjamin Britten ? No I don't live near there, I'm in the North of England, and I'm afraid that Benjamin Britten is about the last composer I would travel to either listen to or haunt his local. Hope he wasn't a relative of yours ! My dislike probably stems from doing a Britten opera at school, Noye's Fludde, and it was just - well, noise !

If you are familiar with Aldeburgh I did a few panoramics which have been lost to filing and never used, so I'll show them here for you. They are actually sunrises but still in the spirit of the thread. The stainless steel shell sculpture caused a lot of controversy with the locals apparently. It has cut into it some of the lyrics from Britten's Peter Grimes: " I hear those voices that will not be drowned". I presume it is a memorial to both Britten and those that have lost their lives at sea working out of the fishing town.

You are outdoing yourself, Sporgon!
That shell is a true work of art. I hope you make money on shots like these - you deserve it.

Many thanks Domino. Sorry I meant to reply to your kind comments about the Hay Wain picture. I'm pleased you like it because that lighting really appeals to me too. It is very different to the panoramic produced for National Trust, but then those pictures are really meant to show people the place and (hopefully) make them want to visit, rather than being 'artistic'.

Never made anything on the Aldeburgh pictures, but didn't expect to. Went there after Flatford. It's very difficult to make anything on landscape pictures unless they are specifically commissioned. Digital has inevitably devalued photography in a monitory sense, and raised expectations in an aesthetic sense.

And many thanks to rpt too !

 

[lion rock]

Sporgon,
Your photos really highlight this thread. And I'm not slighting all the other contributors here. All photos published here are great and wonderful.
But Sporgon's just have an ethereal quality to the sunset that make me warm and fuzzy inside (why in the world do I say that??? ;D), and I really want to go to my own sunset in that kind of scene! 8)
I'll try to learn to get this effect in my photos in the future, what an inspiration!
-r

 

[NancyP]

Nothing will spoil one's enjoyment like mandatory school performance. I am not familiar with that work. No, not a relative, just an opera buff with an interest in non-standard . Our local opera theater was run by an Englishman who had had some assistant conductor or other behind-scenes experience at the music festival, so he programmed several of the Britten operas in years in which we didn't have new commissions. Aldeborough is an obscure town, I can't imagine it has a lot of tourist trade other than the music festival.

 

[Sporgon]

Sporgon,
Your photos really highlight this thread. And I'm not slighting all the other contributors here. All photos published here are great and wonderful.
But Sporgon's just have an ethereal quality to the sunset that make me warm and fuzzy inside (why in the world do I say that??? ;D), and I really want to go to my own sunset in that kind of scene! 8)
I'll try to learn to get this effect in my photos in the future, what an inspiration!
-r

Thanks Lion Rock.

Nice image, Sporgon. Is that your neck of the woods, or are you a music tourist?

;D Thanks Nancy, are you referring to Benjamin Britten ? No I don't live near there, I'm in the North of England, and I'm afraid that Benjamin Britten is about the last composer I would travel to either listen to or haunt his local. Hope he wasn't a relative of yours ! My dislike probably stems from doing a Britten opera at school, Noye's Fludde, and it was just - well, noise !

If you are familiar with Aldeburgh I did a few panoramics which have been lost to filing and never used, so I'll show them here for you. They are actually sunrises but still in the spirit of the thread. The stainless steel shell sculpture caused a lot of controversy with the locals apparently. It has cut into it some of the lyrics from Britten's Peter Grimes: " I hear those voices that will not be drowned". I presume it is a memorial to both Britten and those that have lost their lives at sea working out of the fishing town.

You are outdoing yourself, Sporgon!
That shell is a true work of art. I hope you make money on shots like these - you deserve it.

Thanks Domino.

I got this effect by under exposing the sunrise and filling the steel shell with a touch of flash.

( I don't know where these red links have come from in my posts. I didn't put them there and they do not link to my work).

 

[DominoDude]

Sporgon,
Your photos really highlight this thread. And I'm not slighting all the other contributors here. All photos published here are great and wonderful.
But Sporgon's just have an ethereal quality to the sunset that make me warm and fuzzy inside (why in the world do I say that??? ;D), and I really want to go to my own sunset in that kind of scene! 8)
I'll try to learn to get this effect in my photos in the future, what an inspiration!
-r

Thanks Lion Rock.

Nice image, Sporgon. Is that your neck of the woods, or are you a music tourist?

;D Thanks Nancy, are you referring to Benjamin Britten ? No I don't live near there, I'm in the North of England, and I'm afraid that Benjamin Britten is about the last composer I would travel to either listen to or haunt his local. Hope he wasn't a relative of yours ! My dislike probably stems from doing a Britten opera at school, Noye's Fludde, and it was just - well, noise !

If you are familiar with Aldeburgh I did a few panoramics which have been lost to filing and never used, so I'll show them here for you. They are actually sunrises but still in the spirit of the thread. The stainless steel shell sculpture caused a lot of controversy with the locals apparently. It has cut into it some of the lyrics from Britten's Peter Grimes: " I hear those voices that will not be drowned". I presume it is a memorial to both Britten and those that have lost their lives at sea working out of the fishing town.

You are outdoing yourself, Sporgon!
That shell is a true work of art. I hope you make money on shots like these - you deserve it.

Thanks Domino.

I got this effect by under exposing the sunrise and filling the steel shell with a touch of flash.

( I don't know where these red links have come from in my posts. I didn't put them there and they do not link to my work).

*nods*
Flash, used that way, balances things wonderfully.

 

[Sharad.Medhavi]

One from me...

Sunset at the beach by Sharad Medhavi, on Flickr

 

[Dylan777]

Beautiful photos guys.

Love this thread

 

[sanjosedave]

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