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A Gold Winter Sunset
A Gold Winter Sunset
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Challenge: Free Study 2010-01 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Pentax K7
Lens: Sigma 170-500mmD f/5-6.3 APO DG Aspherical for Pentax
Location: Between Washingtonville & Millville, PA
Date: Jan 29, 2010
Aperture: f10
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/2500
Galleries: Emotive, Nature
Date Uploaded: Jan 29, 2010

Caught this beautiful sunset on my way home after looking for things to shoot. This is pretty much straight out of the camera, did a lite USM & saved 4 web.


btw, does anyone know of a setting or something in firefox that changes the viewed-quality of pictures? A few months ago I hit something on the keyboard & ever since the picture quality is NOT GOOD (hence the reason I haven't voted on any challenges in quite some time).... every time I enter a challenge I have to go over to Brian's monitor & check to make sure it's sharp..... any help appreciated. Thanks :)

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02/11/2010 02:40:53 PM
Hello again Brandi :)

First, your question :-)
If you type about:admin at the address bar, you'll get a lot of functions that are not available in the menus. Since I'm not sure what the problem is, I cannot check with setting could be the correct one :P But you can look for anything filtering by quality, image, etc, until you find it.
If this doesn't work, try and reset your FF.

As for the photo:

Composition
I like the silhouette, I like the way you can still see the ground, but I think it was cut a little short on the left side, as you can't see the whole tree. It would make this photo much more robust if the entire tree was there, then it could be like "A tree and a sunset". Like this, it feels a little more like a sunset and the tree is a bit in the way. Not too much, but still a bit.

Lighting / Technique
The colours are just fabulous, your sky gradient is just so smooth and warm that you really feel you were there. Probably could have lowered the ISO just to reduce the noise in the sky, and make it even smoother.

Processing
As you said, the shot didn't need much PP, since it's all there. If it was me, just to make viewers a little more directed at the sunset, I would have used a little vignetting, to close the perspective.

Take care,
Joao
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/01/2010 07:46:40 AM
simple yet wow!!!
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02/01/2010 01:50:57 AM
nice and simple...
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