Moonset

Gallery: LandscapePosted March 9, 2010161 views10 comments

Praia da Adraga
Sintra-Cascais NP. Portugal

In light of dawn, the moon is setting just before the sunrise. The colors transforms the scenario briefly in another reality and nature magic happens.

January 2009
1 shot taken. Exposed at 85mm f/11 1/10s ISO100
Cropped to 4x3 format from 2 processed RAW files with Manual moon blend

All your thoughts appreciated. Thanks

Comments

10 comments

Comment posted by Paolo De Faveri on March 9, 2010 at 2:25 PM

Beautiful colours, and I think you did the right choice with the shutter speed, capturing a lot of texture and many waves on the sea surface. I might consider a slight crop from the bottom, just to give the portion of sand in the fg the same size of the sky. It could give it more balance in my opinion.

Cheers,
Paolo

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Comment posted by Barry Vangrov on March 9, 2010 at 3:08 PM

A lovely image. Love the pastel colors.

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Comment posted by Dietrich Gloger on March 9, 2010 at 3:10 PM

A very well made photograph Hélio! Very clean and nicely structured, with some interesting features and elements. The pastel colors work well here too.

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Comment posted by Daniel Ewert on March 9, 2010 at 6:53 PM

Very lovely coastal image. Simple and wonderful.

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Comment posted by Eva McDermott on March 9, 2010 at 9:05 PM

I like the layers of color here Helio. Nice choice of shutter speed also.

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Comment posted by Rudy Ruberti on March 9, 2010 at 10:03 PM

Beautiful colors and great comp. I like how you keep the detail in the water, too. Nicely done.

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Comment posted by Elliot Johnston on March 9, 2010 at 11:12 PM

Mmm love those soft colors. I agree with Paolo's crop suggestion from the bottom. The only drawback would be that you lose some the interesting patterns in the sand.

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Comment posted by Verena & Georg Pop on March 10, 2010 at 5:17 AM

very soothing and calming image! how nice.
I love the water-colors here and the moon just makes it perfect!
verena

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Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on March 10, 2010 at 9:41 PM

I've never seen a reflect anti-twilight arch, Hélio. Super-cool! I just love this.

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Comment posted by Morris McClung on March 10, 2010 at 11:31 PM

Fantastic pastel colors and the comp and moment are great.

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