Sunrise and Sunset photos

[LHT28]

Nice, LHT28. I love shooting at the sunset!

 

Thanks ...Love your shots also.

I usually miss the sunsets getting ready for dinner or already there!!:cool:

[pierces]

What a difference a few minutes make...

 

5:47 PM - Ok sunset, nothing spectacular...most cameras leave to get ready for dinner

 

5:56 PM - Deck is clear...is the show over?

 

5:58 PM - Ah...so patience is a virtue!

 

Colors are real. Straight out of the camera set on "normal" with no oversaturating in Photoshop. It really was a great 11 minutes!

 

Dave

[twomikea]

Pierces, very good visual of a natural sunset in the making. I am often the last on the deck of a sunset - on the Maui last 2 sunsets (I posted) I took over a hundred shots - could see the color coming as everyone left. Usually I'll look to the east at sunset early in the sunset and it's color will give me a good idea of what's coming.

 

I took a series of a sunrise on the water in Hilo where I got 4 colors over a 30 minute period. Pink, gold, copper and orange. There were a lot of broken clouds at different altitudes that made it possible.

 

I do believe in some enhancement to the photo - my personal taste. I use Paintshop Pro and Neat Image. I do usually have my dsrl set to natural settings. I do still use filters - especially polarizing. I guess if my enhancements are evident to the untrained eye I probably went too far.

 

I can tell you're a really good photographer with great creative and technical skills (well,your avatar and the use of pbase told me, too).

 

I hope you don't mind but I "played" with your natural photo a little - just in Snapfire - I'm on the road and not at my home PC.

 

BTW, where was your picture - it reminds me of leaving St Lucia?

 

Pierces beautiful sunset:

[Krazy Kruizers]

pierces

 

Love your pictures!!

[pierces]

I do believe in some enhancement to the photo - my personal taste. I use Paintshop Pro and Neat Image. I do usually have my dsrl set to natural settings. I do still use filters - especially polarizing. I guess if my enhancements are evident to the untrained eye I probably went too far.

 

Not so untrained...;) I wasn't taking a poke at the supersaturation. It is, as you said, a metter of personal taste. I tend to try to match what inspired me to take the shot in the first place, but am not opposed to tweaking the image to get there if it's needed.

 

I can tell you're a really good photographer with great creative and technical skills (well,your avatar and the use of pbase told me, too).[/

 

Obviously you're a man with exceptional perceptual skills! :D [/color]

 

I hope you don't mind but I "played" with your natural photo a little - just in Snapfire - I'm on the road and not at my home PC.

 

Not at all...just don't sell it!:eek: In the print file, I bumped the brightness and saturation +5 and +7 respectively and had it printed on a LightJet using FujiFlex poly-coated gallery paper. That particular paper does things with room light that have to be seen to be appreciated!

 

BTW, where was your picture - it reminds me of leaving St Lucia?

 

It was taken as we sailed out of Puerto Vallarta in February 2003.

 

Keep shooting those sunsets! They're like snowflakes...never the same.

 

Someday I'll find the perfect one....

 

Dave

[cuted126]

Twomikea,your pics are breathtaking!

[Missilecop]

I took this from our balcony.

[vowsatsea]

Taken off of our balcony on the Carnival Miracle 1 week ago...

 

 

[Missilecop]

[Mysticks1]

The photo in my signature is the sun setting over New Orleans as we were sailing down the Mississippi River 11/22/06. I attached it also so you can see it larger.

[TexBear]

Here are a sampling of photos I took on the cruise.

 

I'll post more of these in another reply.

[TexBear]

As promised, more pictures!

[twomikea]

I really like that picture - I think I have a similar one across the pool deck but can't find it. This one is a little like your without the great color yours has.

 

Coming into Oahu, HI at dawn.

[twomikea]

Hey TexBear - I like your pictures - but I couldn't help myself to "play" with one.

 

I hope you don't mind?

 

And I hope you like it!

 

TexBear's sunset:

[twomikea]

Donna your colors are my favorite - almost dark with deep blues and vibrant orange.

 

Still can't find that picture :confused: - this one has similar colors.

 

Leaving St Lucia

[twomikea]

Sabrina - I like yours a lot - it looks a lot like my Costa Maya picture posted on the last page (post 291) - and I took also May, 2007!

 

Anybody want to guess what and where this picture is from??

[stowaway2k]

How about a 'moonrise' photo?

 

Atlantic ocean, May 2006

[twomikea]

Yes, I love moon rises! Very nice - and not easy to take stowaway2k.

 

My favorite - not technically good but I love the colors. From our balcony with Windjammer on left.

 

[gumballz]

 

Coming into Oahu, HI at dawn.

 

I Love this picture! We'll be on the Spirit in January...this makes me look forward to it even more. Thanks for sharing!

[twomikea]

I Love this picture! We'll be on the Spirit in January...this makes me look forward to it even more. Thanks for sharing!

 

We don't love Carnival - but...

 

 

...Spirit is a really nice ship. We were on her for 12 days and we loved it.

 

 

You will have a great time.

 

 

Leaving Kauai on Carnival Spirit from an aft wrap-around balcony.

[Krazy Kruizers]

Great pictures!!

[Krazy Kruizers]

Sabrina - I like yours a lot - it looks a lot like my Costa Maya picture posted on the last page (post 291) - and I took also May, 2007!

 

Anybody want to guess what and where this picture is from??

 

 

Please tell us where it is from.

[Char]

Pacific sunset on the way home from Hawaii. View from aft balcony of Infinity.

[Krazy Kruizers]

Beautiful picture Char!!

[pierces]

Sunset over the Monarch OTS (previously posted with a bad link).

Cloudy day gave up some color at the end!

 

 

Fun thread!

 

Dave