African Sunset

Gallery: LandscapePosted October 13, 2015196 views5 comments

I'm not much of a landscape shooter, but this scene caught my eye. There had been several days of high winds which caused much airborne dust and thus the unusual sky color. The foreground has been opened in LR. Taken with a D4, 80-400 at 400, 1/320, f/6.3 and ISO 100. Richard

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Comment posted by Daniel Rappaport on October 13, 2015 at 2:05 PM

Sweet composition. Like the way the trees frame the sun.

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on October 13, 2015 at 2:17 PM

You've done very well here, Richard, with the sun, the colorful sky, and an interesting landscape. There are some soft areas scattered through the foreground, which has me thinking that the wind was still blowing pretty strongly.

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Comment posted by Harley Goldman on October 13, 2015 at 4:00 PM

Very well done, Richard! Great colors and well captured scene. I love the look of the soft grasses, too.

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Comment posted by Richard Teller on October 13, 2015 at 8:52 PM

I really like the feeling your have captured here. Fine composition and colors.

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Comment posted by Mark James Ford on October 15, 2015 at 3:59 PM

Hi Richard, a wonderful sunset/rise(?) must have been amazing to see and a brilliant exposure of the sun and structure in the sky. My own view is that the foreground has been opened a little too much creating, for example, a not very nice halo on the horizon on the right and almost a 'flashlight/HDR' type effect on the grass. I think with such a strong 'sun' the foreground would (should) naturally look somewhat darker with still plenty of opportunity to see detail/strucure/texture in the grass ...

Cheers, mark

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