Sunrise at Sea

[gaurav26b]

I took this photo 10 days back. EXIF Details: ISO 125 FL: 24mm Aperture: f/5.6 SS: 1/500 sec. I wanted to capture the reflection of the sunrise while keeping the branch bundle in sight. C&C welcome

[Wavelength]

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[gaurav26b]

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Please have a look again. I have uploaded it correctly.

[Shadowman]

You've achieved your goal, nice effort.

[Wavelength]

Gaurav, the Sunset part is really fantastic; yet the decaying bundle is a kind of anti-climax; so my reaction is a kind of love-hate

[Geoff F]

This current scene isn't working for me.

Firstly the horizon is well off from being level. That foreground object is just a dark featureless mass of nothing.

Maybe crop out the foreground, possibly a mix of crop and clone, then take a similar amount from the sides; mostly from the left side to concentrate on that acceptable sun and sky scene.

[Manfred M]

Geoff and I were typing pretty well the same thing and he seems to have been just ahead of what I was writing. Sunrise / sunset shots by themselves are quite boring, but a well composed scene with a sunrise or sunset in it can be quite lovely.

Shooting into the sun adds flare to an image and it backlights objects in the scene. Both need to be taken care of to get a stronger image.

[FootLoose]

Funny that some people refer to this as a "sunset" when gaurav has labelled it a sunrise and said his intention was to capture a sunrise. Does that indicate you live on a west coast?

[rpcrowe]

Nice image, improved with Manfred's PP...

The adult daughter of a friend once asked me seeing the sunset on the ocean... "When the sun goes down, where does it go?" Thinking she was playing with me, I said "Around the world". After a long pause, she said seriously. "Oh really, I guess that's why the times are different in other parts of the world" Amazing remark from a high school graduate

[zen]

Nice image, improved with Manfred's PP...

+1

Zen

[Manfred M]

Funny that some people refer to this as a "sunset" when gaurav has labelled it a sunrise and said his intention was to capture a sunrise. Does that indicate you live on a west coast?

Poor reading on my part, but the statements were still correct regardless of this shot being a sunrise or sunset.

[Wavelength]

Funny that some people refer to this as a "sunset" when gaurav has labelled it a sunrise and said his intention was to capture a sunrise. Does that indicate you live on a west coast?

Fault is mine; a shameful mistake

[gaurav26b]

Geoff and I were typing pretty well the same thing and he seems to have been just ahead of what I was writing. Sunrise / sunset shots by themselves are quite boring, but a well composed scene with a sunrise or sunset in it can be quite lovely.

Shooting into the sun adds flare to an image and it backlights objects in the scene. Both need to be taken care of to get a stronger image.

Thanks Wavelength, Geoff and Manfred for your C&C. Certainly helped me learn more. Manfred, It seems that you have used Lightroom to edit the pic. Nicely done. I guess I have to start learning post-processing now.

[Manfred M]

Thanks Wavelength, Geoff and Manfred for your C&C. Certainly helped me learn more. Manfred, It seems that you have used Lightroom to edit the pic. Nicely done. I guess I have to start learning post-processing now.

Actually I almost never use Lightroom. I do almost all my work in Photoshop.

Post-processing is, in most circumstances, the only way to get some of the details that your camera captured out of the data.

[sachtjen]

There seems to be almost a double image. It is most apparent in the small pebbles on the right and the short stick on the left. Any idea what might have caused that? At 1/500th of a second I wouldn't expect there to be camera shake.

[Geoff F]

I wonder if those pebbles were moving? Being carried along by the wave back wash.