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#121
Lookout Mountain, facing east, away from the sunset. Sigma 24mm f/1.8 at f/10, ISO 800, 6D, hand-held, 1/60. A few tweaks in LR, cropped toward the bottom of the frame in 16:9 aspect because it suited the composition. The unaltered RAW looked very gray and dull (especially on the computer), moreso than it looked to my eyes. This is slightly richer in the sky than it looked to my eyes, but I like how you can see some deep red in a narrow band toward the horizon, besides the reds on the clouds closer to the camera. I like that this has so much color, yet I am 180 degrees away from the sunset. Probably would have been better at f/8 or f/9.

This Sigma lens doesn't really have vivid color or contrast, but I think it's a good overall compromise at its price point...and its a macro, with AF.
 

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#125
One from the Isle of Skye earlier this year.

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#132
Still trying to find the right spot for getting a good shot of both the modern wind farms and old coal power station together, without falling in the river. To date just cant find the spot.
 

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#134
CarlTN said:
Sporgon said:
View over where I live in the Vale of York, England
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Nice shot but could it have used a little less of the tree?
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Thanks Carl. The tree is actually hiding most of the blow out from the sun which was stillmpretty bright. I shot it hand held so couldn't B&B. If I had shot it properly then I would have probably gone for a wider vista and balanced the whole of the sky. I may still do that. As it is I think the tree stops you from falling out of the picture on the right.
 
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#135
Sporgon said:
CarlTN said:
Sporgon said:
View over where I live in the Vale of York, England
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Nice shot but could it have used a little less of the tree?
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Thanks Carl. The tree is actually hiding most of the blow out from the sun which was stillmpretty bright. I shot it hand held so couldn't B&B. If I had shot it properly then I would have probably gone for a wider vista and balanced the whole of the sky. I may still do that. As it is I think the tree stops you from falling out of the picture on the right.
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It's just that the tree takes up a bit more area of the composition than it should, but that's just my eye and brain talking. Certainly you do have a point ! Have a crack at some of my pics if you like. Most of mine are shot hand-held as well (who has time or forethought to run back, get the tripod, mount the camera...before the clouds change and the sun sets farther? Some of the best shots are offered by nature when you have no time or planning! I've missed most or all of them...).
 
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#136
Handheld with the much reviled Sigma 24 f/1.8 and 6D...obviously there's not much landscape involved in this shot (like many of these I've posted, it's from my front yard). The sun had set 20 minutes or more, before the shot...getting into the tricky "blue hour". Yet I managed to do ISO 100 at f/10. I really need to only shoot this lens at f/8 or wider, and worry less about the corner sharpness. Even though the color and contrast via this lens can be a little muted, that's easily overcome in post. Shooting stars and milky way at wider aperture is requiring a bit more post work due to what looks like a combination of astigmatism and coma at extreme side borders and much of the corners. But all of that goes away past f/5 or so, though. Also the AFMA varies all over the place...and the AF motor is loud and "old tech"...but I still like the lens.

Anyone have any comments on how good LR 4 and 5 are at getting rid of CA? I like to just click the one "checkbox" and most of it magically disappears. But are the sliders below that meant more for longitudinal CA? If you adjust them say below 5, they seem to help the lateral CA a bit more (than the "checkbox" does). But going higher than that, they skew the color edges by a large amount (which seems like it would help more with longitudinal CA, or "bokeh fringing").

In CS5 the amount of control over lateral CA is even greater, but it can take more time if you really start fiddling with sliders. I don't have CS6...will probably wait for CS7.
 

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#137
Sharing one of my most recent sunset shots, too. I applied 1 degree of tilt downwards to alter the plane of focus and another 3 degrees shift to straighten the terminal structures on the horizon. :)

Finale
Canon EOS 5D Mark III ı Canon TS-E24mm f/3.5L II ı Singh Ray LB Warming Polarizer ı Singh Ray 0.9 Reverse ND Grad Filter ı 24mm ı 25s ı f/16 ı ISO 100

Finale by shutterwideshut on Flickr
 
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#140
Vern said:
How about a sunrise? Canon 24mm f3.5L II TS, f8, 4 portrait stitched pano, 3 expo HDR, 5D MKII - foreground de-ghosted to preserve water details.
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Nice work, however the high clouds are a tad overdone "HDR" effect in my opinion. Very nice composition though, no doubt about it!
 
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