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Sunsets and New Beginnings


Sunsets and New Beginnings
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Copyright: Emma Taylor (Aramok) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 927 W: 103 N: 1420] (4887)
Genre: Landscapes
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-07-22
Categories: Seascape, Ocean
Camera: Canon EOS 350D, Canon EF 75-300mm F/4-5.6 III USM, Digital ISO 400
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/1000 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Travelogue: Scotland July 2007
Theme(s): My Sunsets and Sunrises [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2007-09-10 5:15
Viewed: 980
Points: 34
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Currently needing a distraction, so I thought I would spend the next few minutes on TN before I go off to the hospital for my MRI results...

Following on from my holiday back in July, I have posted this picture as another of the wondeful sunsets we had in the Orkney Islands. One of the problems I had in the Orkney's with sunsets is that there is very little in the way of trees or mountains to get a suitable foreground simply becuase of the size of the islands and that fact that there are very few large trees there. It made me have to rethink what I had to do to get the landscape shots I usually take and gave me a challenge which stumped me for the first 24hrs until I was able to get out of my normal landscape mode of thinking.

So what we have here are the grasses on the edge of a cliff looking out over the Atlantic Ocean.

Taken with -2EV underexposure and a long zoom at ISO400, I was testing my ability here in more ways that one. No tripod becuase I was standing on a peat moor with cattle in the background and also standing in water at sunset... any specs you see will not be lens dust, it will be the biting insects that were eating me alive! I left the flash off becuase I wanted a really dark FG for the silhoutte effect.

Taken in RAW, converted to jpeg with histogram balanced, this is full frame and uneditted (with the exception of a midge which was in the way!)

Anyhow, need to leave now for hospital so will catch up with everyone later.

Thanks
Emma
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Hi Emma,
Lovely capture with a great POV showing the silhouettes against the subdued colors. Nicely done. Good luck with your health issue.

Wishing you the best,
Jim

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  • PaulH Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1086 W: 29 N: 3294] (11787)
  • [2007-09-10 5:53]

Hi Emma,
great result of stepping out of your normal 'comfort zone' of shooting landscapes! You've created an very eye catching image with some fabulous colour and interesting shapes. Well seen.
Good luck with the MRI results, fingers and everything else crossed :o)
Paul

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  • Silke Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 753 W: 108 N: 1730] (5406)
  • [2007-09-10 7:25]

Oh My, Emma!
I hope you don't mind if I say that my prayers go with you.

The photo is superb (colours, composition, silhouette details and all) and I truly believe that you will shooting many many more of these

TFS
silke

Be well

Hi Emma
Another beautiful sunset. You are the best treknature sunset specialist :-) Simple but beautiful Great exposure, fantastic colors
Best wishes
Krzysztof

Best of health. Your picture shows your concern at this time and how you are thinking and feeling. The words add life to the picture. It is at times such as this that we do our best work.
Bob

Hello Emma,
My best wishes goes with you always on your MRI result!
This is the most beautiful sunset with best pov, awesome colour and details !
very well composed and well seen
see you soon!
with love
Tony

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  • pvs Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1159 W: 255 N: 2639] (11925)
  • [2007-09-10 9:00]

Hi Emma,

A nice capture with great use of the light conditions,well exposed and I like the silhouettes of the strws in front of compo,hope all went ok in the hospital,

Regards,
Paul

Hi Emma,
You made a beautiful sunset landscape. The colours are natural and the focus on the grass is a great idea.
Thanks for sharing your composition,

Claude

Hi Emma,
This is another beauty again. I like the effect of the warm sunset and the shallow DOF a lot. It does make you rethink and come up with a more creative approuch to photography. The long focal also helped to loose the feel of depth. Wonderful work again.
TFS,
Niek

Hello Emma this is so beautifull the shallow DOF and the sunset in the background really is creative photography well seen and executed I love the crisp sharpness of the silouetting tfs rgds Necip

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  • hester Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1517 W: 18 N: 3137] (11548)
  • [2007-09-10 12:55]

Emma

This is beautiful.

A very artistic shot. Nice POV and the grasses in silhouette are lovely. Wonderful light and colours.

Best wishes at the hospital

TFS

Karan

I'm an sending good thoughts your way and am hoping for the best.

Your photo is lovely. I love the color, light, and the silhouetted grasses. I suspect that your image is straight and that everything was in fact tilting to the right... even the foreground. I personally would have to straighten it... so there was some horizontal reference point. That probably says too much about ME! I am forever straightening things...

Good Luck

Evelynn : )

Hello Emma,
A lovely atmosphere, stunning colours!
This is very attractive and the result of a creative mind...
Greetings,
Pablo -

:-) OK-

Hello Emma.
Very soft and subtle. Lovely simplicity and colour. Great composition and use of the grass as a silhouette border. Very beautiful. Well done.
Best regards, Steve.

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  • jlynx Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 75 W: 8 N: 34] (330)
  • [2007-09-13 3:15]

Hello Emma,
Sunsettings are my great passion. I do not know, what so attracts me to this just the moment of the end day, but if I could, I would photograph only sunsettings. This is at You splendid. Especially beautifully looks the foreground against the background of the burning-hot sky. It is the splendid work, superbly executed, beautiful colouring and wonderful quality of photo.
Best regards from Poznan,
Jurek

Hi Emma
I did not realize you weren't well... I wish you strength and hope.

Your sunset is gorgeous, the colours are warm and rich. The silhouette of the grass is beautifully shown. Nicely balanced and composed.
TFS Janice

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  • arfer Gold Star Critiquer [C: 2731 W: 0 N: 0] (0)
  • [2007-10-22 10:18]

Hello Emma

I hope you are feeling better.This is a beautiful display of colour,rich with various hues of red and orange.The composition is lovely and the silhouettes of the grasses is quite elegant.The low POV creates a nice effect.A super combination of a common subject (grass) and the use of light and colour.TFS

Rob

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