Tag: Sunset

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Rear Window

I know, I should be getting down to some work.  But when this appears out your window you’re bound to be distracted.

Sunset on the Airport

I originally was going to shoot just a section of the sky for the files (in case I ever need to ‘insert’ a sky into a under-dramatic photo) but the whole thing opened up into something quite wonderful in its own right.  It is still stunning now the sun has sunk further and the lights on the hill have come up.

It may be cold, but the frosted landscape, low sun and clear blue skies have made things pretty magical these last few days.

Happy New Year.

For the record, I shot this hanging the camera out of the window using LiveView to get over the telephone wire.  I took four separate shots with the 50mm and stitched them to make a single panorama.

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Sunset off Allihies

I climbed the hill after tea to try to get a few shots of the Copper Mines before the sun went down.  It wasn’t working out for me but I noticed the evening light hitting the hills across the valley and took a few shots of that before I realised that there must be something creating that gorgeous light and turned around.

Photography takes me out of things to concentrate on what’s in the viewfinder.  It is important to ‘feel’ these moments of incredible natural beauty as well as photograph them.  So I took the shot and forced myself to put the camera away and just watched the sun set.  Ahhhh.  These moments are rare enough.

I finally got some time this morning to work on this picture.  I wanted to balance sunset and coastline so I effectively double-exposed the original RAW file and blended them to back together maximise the impact of the sun but keep some detail in the hills (I know it is hard to tell from the small version).