"LAKE SUNSET"
Morning Guys & Gals - I had a wonderful day and topped it off with this sunset compliments of 2 COKIN Filters and some selective Dodging & Burning. I went out to the photo store today to get myself a new Tripod & a small daily travel bag for my gear. I got tired of either throwing my camera equipment on the floor of my car, using my full size Tamrac bag or an old Tamrac backpack I hated. So while picking out my new Bag (Tamrac Adventure 74) & Tripod (Vanguard Tracker 3 w/P-55 Fluid filled pan head) I saw an offer from Cokin for a filter holder with a free filter (Sunset P-197) So I grabbed it up along with a Grey (ND Grad P-121L). After leaving the store I drove by a lake I saw the sun starting to go down over the water & decided to stop. I loaded up the filters, set a custom Kelvin white balance temp of 10,000 added 0.7 exposure compensation, sat on the concrete wall surrounding the lake and started firing.
What you see here is the result of shooting directly into the sun and capturing the trees in silhouette and some awesome clouds reflecting off the water. The colors are pretty much true for the exception of a slight levels adjustment to calm the intensity of the outer part of the sun and then some selective dodging & burning of the clouds to bring out a bit more contrast and intensity. The image was finished with an edited & blurred frame in black compliments of OnOne Photoframe Pro 3.1that I used as a custom Vignette effect instead of a plain old oval or square type vignette so that I could control the shape and depth of it in the end. That's about it ans sorry I got stuck on another sunset but I had to try out the new filters to see what I could do with them and I'm quite happy I bought them now.
~Bill~
"LAKE SUNSET"
Morning Guys & Gals - I had a wonderful day and topped it off with this sunset compliments of 2 COKIN Filters and some selective Dodging & Burning. I went out to the photo store today to get myself a new Tripod & a small daily travel bag for my gear. I got tired of either throwing my camera equipment on the floor of my car, using my full size Tamrac bag or an old Tamrac backpack I hated. So while picking out my new Bag (Tamrac Adventure 74) & Tripod (Vanguard Tracker 3 w/P-55 Fluid filled pan head) I saw an offer from Cokin for a filter holder with a free filter (Sunset P-197) So I grabbed it up along with a Grey (ND Grad P-121L). After leaving the store I drove by a lake I saw the sun starting to go down over the water & decided to stop. I loaded up the filters, set a custom Kelvin white balance temp of 10,000 added 0.7 exposure compensation, sat on the concrete wall surrounding the lake and started firing.
What you see here is the result of shooting directly into the sun and capturing the trees in silhouette and some awesome clouds reflecting off the water. The colors are pretty much true for the exception of a slight levels adjustment to calm the intensity of the outer part of the sun and then some selective dodging & burning of the clouds to bring out a bit more contrast and intensity. The image was finished with an edited & blurred frame in black compliments of OnOne Photoframe Pro 3.1that I used as a custom Vignette effect instead of a plain old oval or square type vignette so that I could control the shape and depth of it in the end. That's about it ans sorry I got stuck on another sunset but I had to try out the new filters to see what I could do with them and I'm quite happy I bought them now.
~Bill~
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