Does this work?

SamSam Registered Users Posts: 7,419 Major grins
edited December 30, 2008 in Landscapes
This is one of those where I wonder if I am seeing something that isn't there. I haven't done many silhouettes .

(Yes this was taken from Treasure Island.)

Thanks for your opinions. Yes / no ?

Sam
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Comments

  • RisenhooverRisenhoover Registered Users Posts: 24 Big grins
    edited December 29, 2008
    Was this last night? It was a very unusual sunset, lots of stuff going on in it. I like the silhouette but I wonder how it would look with more water in the foreground.
    Perception is a strange and wonderful thing.
  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited December 30, 2008
    Sam, for me... i like it better cropping the water out
    Aaron Nelson
  • RisenhooverRisenhoover Registered Users Posts: 24 Big grins
    edited December 30, 2008
    AaronNelson wrote:
    Sam, for me... i like it better cropping the water out

    Hmm, I think that would work quite well too come to think of it.
    Perception is a strange and wonderful thing.
  • ThwackThwack Registered Users Posts: 487 Major grins
    edited December 30, 2008
    Cropping out the water gives it more of a panoramic feel (which I like in sunset pics).

    I pondered the suggestion to add more water but the water looks too choppy to provide a good reflection so it would maybe end up distracting (still worth a shot though so you know instead of guessing).
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited December 30, 2008
    Sam,
    no, not really, sorry. Contrails mess up the whole picture :cry Water you you crop out, I agree, but contrails would be a major PITA to clean..ne_nau.gif
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  • NorthernFocusNorthernFocus Registered Users Posts: 1,347 Major grins
    edited December 30, 2008
    Agree with previous comments. I think water can work either way but the contrails hose it up for me. A pano of the city skyline with the color in the sky is cool though.
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  • CWSkopecCWSkopec Registered Users Posts: 1,325 Major grins
    edited December 30, 2008
    I like it Sam. Beautiful sunset, but I agree with Aaron. Getting rid of the water makes it so much better in my opinion. The contrails I don't mind so much... I like them right where they are!
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  • cryptochromecryptochrome Registered Users Posts: 46 Big grins
    edited December 30, 2008
    Great shot, I love it.

    Care to share your camera settings?

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  • SamSam Registered Users Posts: 7,419 Major grins
    edited December 30, 2008
    Thanks everyone! I believe I do like it better with the water cropped out.

    The camera setting aren't anything magic. 70-200 2.8 L @70 mm F16, 1/60.

    It's all in the long hours of training, practice, and the secret techniques of pressing the shutter button.

    (ether that or the sun, clouds, light, all aligned while a lucky photog was standing around pressing the shutter button willy nilly.) :D

    Sam
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  • Digital IllusionsDigital Illusions Registered Users Posts: 150 Major grins
    edited December 30, 2008
    I agree crop the water out but the sky is too busy for my taste. i like silouettes to be cleaner so that the eyes are focused on the skyline and not anything else. sorry.
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