Thread: Show Clouds Sunrise/Sunset

Originally Posted by BBW

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WOW!! That's intense!!!! Nice work!!!!!

A couple of shots from the Cronulla area in the southern suburbs of Sydney.

Sunset from Hungry Point

Sunset from Hungry Point by peterb666, on Flickr

Although it doesn't look it, this was taken 20 minutes later and is facing the opposite direction (i.e. 180 degrees away from the setting sun). This is Oak Park Rock Pool (otherwise known as Glaisher Point)

Oak Park - Glaisher Point-1 by peterb666, on Flickr

Both shots taken with a Nikon D90 and 10-24mm zoom. The first at 24mm and the second at 10mm.

Nice!!!!

I went back out to Oak Park Rock Pool this morning with a friend. It was mainly an exercise in me showing her how to use filters, particularly grads and tricks like using 2 hard transition grads to simulate a reverse grad. I only shot a small number of photos myself and unfortunately the cloud cover did not oblige for a great sunrise.

In these conditions, the Olympus E-P1 and Olympus M.Zuiko 9-18mm zoom excels. Alas, I had my Nikon D90 and the 10-24mm zoom which struggles with flare. It is fairly well controlled in this shot (actually the Nikon lens has a very good reputation for flare resistance - it just isn't as good as the Olympus lens). Where the Nikon excels is noise control. I don't have to do any post-processing fiddling with noise at all with the Nikon and I never have to use long-exposure noise removal at all. Here is the shot...


Sunrise at Oak Park by peterb666, on Flickr

The clouds are from the steam where the water is hitting the fresh volcanic flow. You can see a red glow in the clouds near the left edge of the picture. The bright spot on the right is the rising sun.

Thanks for both posts, Peter. You know I'm a big fan of your water photos...and enjoy hearing your descriptions about what goes on during the process. I do like the simplicity of your last shot very much and the 16 x 9 works just perfectly.

Thanks BB - I always appreciate your feedback. The ratio is actually much wider than 16:9, it is 1:2.66 which is one of my favourites and suits the ultrawide format well. The ratio comes from Cinerama and Cinemascope films when they re-released on the old Super-8 films (typically around 2:85 and 2:33 to 1 initially). I find the old cine film ratios nice to work with when you have limited interest in the foreground or beyond the horizon.

Originally Posted by deirdre

The clouds are from the steam where the water is hitting the fresh volcanic flow. You can see a red glow in the clouds near the left edge of the picture. The bright spot on the right is the rising sun.

I love that shot Deirdre. We don't have anything like that in our part of the world and to see the smoke/steam rising out of the water must be great. Nice balance to the shot.

Peter, is this 1:2.66 something that any of us can do in say Lightroom? I hate to add it in if it won't work because I haven't found a way to delete a size ratio yet and I have one that is completely useless that I added inadvertently.

Deidre, somehow I missed your latest! We must have been posting at similar times. Gosh it must have been so amazing to be out there! What's the sea life like around these volcanoes? And by the way, did you go scuba diving while you were out there?