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TITLE: Untitled THINK FOREGROUND
PHOTOGRAPHER: Tim Bruton According to Tim Bruton, this is his best image
DETAILS: Canon EOS 6D, Sigma 24-105mm f4 Art lens @ 24mm of a sunset from a holiday in Waratah Bay,
focal length, bracketed exposure in manual mode: 0.5s, 1/5s, 1.3s Victoria. He wrote: “With the promise of partial
@ f22, ISO 50, Photoshop: HDR merge, vibrance, noise reduction, cloud for interest, and a favourable tide exposing
exposure, highlights, shadows. a large area of flat wet reflective sand, I set up
15 minutes before sunset and waited for the best
light. Shortly after the sun had set an interesting
bank of clouds moved in and I took this photo.”
Taking time to set up well before sunset gets
a big tick in my book, as does hanging around
for more than just a few minutes after sunset.
The colour in this scene is attractive and there
are some lovely contrasting textural elements
with those stretched-out feathery clouds,
glass-like reflections and almost paintbrush-like
strokes in places on the beach. The spoilers
for the image are the vehicular lines in the sand
and that disturbing line of water tilting down
on the left, but the good thing is that you can
level the water line and clone out the tracks in
postproduction. Overall the effect is pleasant,
but as with a lot of sunset shots, there is no
strong foreground interest (such as a couple, a
dog, a rock or a whatever) to hold the viewer’s
eye and to make the image more memorable.
SAIMA’S TIP: Sometimes the best colour in
a sunset appears in the underlighting of
clouds, which often appears well after
the sun has actually set.
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