The nice thing about fall is...

BrettGBrettG Registered Users Posts: 120 Major grins
edited October 4, 2005 in Landscapes
that the sun is starting to rise at a more managable time :D . I shot these over Lake Ontario at about 7:15am.

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A question, which is better of the next two. The first is as-shot, the second is cropped in slightly to eliminate the foreground gull and one on the left.

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Thanks for any input.
BrettG

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  • zigzagzigzag Registered Users Posts: 196 Major grins
    edited October 1, 2005
    The first one is tops. Absolutely awesome!

    On the 2nd one, the cropped version definitely wins.
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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited October 1, 2005
    Beauty. First one's great. These are the kind of shots where I think you have to be very particular about the horizon being level. Keep an eye on that.
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  • ramdiskramdisk Registered Users Posts: 189 Major grins
    edited October 1, 2005
    Very nice, and the answer is?
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  • USAIRUSAIR Registered Users Posts: 2,646 Major grins
    edited October 1, 2005
    Cool sunset
    Very nice warm colors clap.gif

    Thanks
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  • BrettGBrettG Registered Users Posts: 120 Major grins
    edited October 2, 2005
    Thanks for the feedback everybody. :):

    Some of my other shots have the horizon even more tilted. My tripod head doesn't adjust very easily, I think a ball head upgrade might be in the future.
    BrettG
  • GraphyFotozGraphyFotoz Registered Users Posts: 2,267 Major grins
    edited October 2, 2005
    Don't rule out one of these!
    BrettG wrote:
    Thanks for the feedback everybody. :):

    Some of my other shots have the horizon even more tilted. My tripod head doesn't adjust very easily, I think a ball head upgrade might be in the future.
    I use one of these and it's GREAT!!!

    Slik AF2100

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  • HiggmeisterHiggmeister Registered Users Posts: 909 Major grins
    edited October 3, 2005
    Hi Brett,
    I agree about the sunrise time. I'm usually a sunset person except for this time of the year as I too get to see a few.

    #1 just knocks my socks off. I think it would look great in print. On my second look, it reminded me of the shots of Bikini Atoll (Nuke test site). As for #2, the cropped one looks better as the foreground bird doesn't add anything and actually takes away from the better framed bird.

    Crooked horizons are common for most of us and we just straighten them in PP. Most applications allow a crop and rotate which would level out that horizon.

    Thanks for the post,
    Chris

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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited October 4, 2005
    Great colour brett !

    ...7.15am eek7.gif what time does it come up in mid winter ?
  • BrettGBrettG Registered Users Posts: 120 Major grins
    edited October 4, 2005
    I think it peaks at almost 8AM after the winter solstice.

    We're not quite in the land of the midnight sun here :):
    BrettG
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