sunset 8/2
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I prefer the dusk over the sunset a vast majority of the time. The sunset tends to be a bit cliche also, we get a lot of radiant light which I don't care that much for. Once the sun goes down and we have some partially cloudy skies, man, there's a lot of great light to work with during dusk. It's crazy how even seasoned photographer's will be standing at an observation platform with the big fluffy clouds in sky which aren't even popping with brilliant color yet and tear down there equipment and leave right after the sun has just gone down over the hills or ocean and leave right as these brilliant colors start to pop talking about how great the sunset was. Yeah, the sunset was good but not as good as the dusk IMHO.
Chad
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These are nice!
I prefer the dusk over the sunset a vast majority of the time. The sunset tends to be a bit cliche also, we get a lot of radiant light which I don't care that much for. Once the sun goes down and we have some partially cloudy skies, man, there's a lot of great light to work with during dusk. It's crazy how even seasoned photographer's will be standing at an observation platform with the big fluffy clouds in sky which aren't even popping with brilliant color yet and tear down there equipment and leave right after the sun has just gone down over the hills or ocean and leave right as these brilliant colors start to pop talking about how great the sunset was. Yeah, the sunset was good but not as good as the dusk IMHO.
Chad
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you got that right, Chad! i always say the best colors come 20-30 minutes AFTER the sun sinks out of sight. i remember a trip to Second Beach a few years ago - i made the trip just to shoot the sunset - and when i got there, around 6:30, there were maybe 25 people on the beach. by sundown, there were 4... myself and three others, all with DSLRs (though i was the only one with a tripod). we all shot the sunset - sorta brassy, not very pretty at all, actually - and as soon as the sun was out of sight, the other three packed up and left. i just stood there and shook my head... they had no idea what they were gonna miss! i stuck around, and about 25 minutes later, i was rewarded with one of the most beautiful evening skies i'd ever seen, even without clouds! i liked it so much, i put the image on my business cards! i knew there had been a volcanic eruption in Siberia a few months before, and all that stuff was floating around in the upper atmosphere, just waiting for the right light and angle to light up the sky... it lasted just a few minutes, but man, was it worth it!
There are three parts to every sunset: the preset, the sunset itself, and the afterset. One part may look better than the others depending on the clouds and atmospheric conditions.
I used to take a lot of sunset photos along the Edmonds waterfront, but I have backed off the last two years as I thought all of my shots were starting to look alike. You have to get creative with the use the foreground to avoid that if you are taking shots at the same location every night like I was.
I used to take a lot of sunset photos along the Edmonds waterfront, but I have backed off the last two years as I thought all of my shots were starting to look alike. You have to get creative with the use the foreground to avoid that if you are taking shots at the same location every night like I was.
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Deka
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Sunsets are so dependent upon various factors.
What is enjoyable.....each sunset really is different. Nothing is ever in the same place, the same color, the same tint or the same vibrancy.
Nature is not stationary. It is changing all the time.
To us humans, it may become mundane but it is constantly changing. It is up to us to 'see' and enjoy.
Deka
What is enjoyable.....each sunset really is different. Nothing is ever in the same place, the same color, the same tint or the same vibrancy.
Nature is not stationary. It is changing all the time.
To us humans, it may become mundane but it is constantly changing. It is up to us to 'see' and enjoy.
Deka
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