Sunrise in Denver

kkart

Well I took these yesterday and the day before and thought that I would share with ya all. All shot on my Minolta 5D with my 18-200 Minolta DT lens, tripod and a Singh Ray CPL. Just off my deck. Usually I don't shoot much in the way of 'suburbia style' shots but a couple of these I thought worked. C&C most welcomed.

Charla

Dang it! I slept through another awesome sunrise!

Nice job, my favorite is the first one.

kkart

Charla wrote:

Dang it! I slept through another awesome sunrise!

Nice job, my favorite is the first one.

Thanks! I hope u saw it today, it was incredible and the lighting just added more to it!

photofreak

kkart wrote:

Thanks! I hope u saw it today, it was incredible and the lighting just added more to it!

I like the last one best...more color...less "stuff" to dertract from what I'm really looking at.
I've done several of those and I get lower and aim higher so I don't get the house tops...MHO
Mandi
www.mandraleephotography.com

Charla

kkart wrote:

Thanks! I hope u saw it today, it was incredible and the lighting just added more to it!

Nope... missed it again, but my husband told me all about it! He said that the falling rain turned orange in the sunrise and that there was a heck of a lightning show. Did you manage to catch any shots?

System

I'd crop or clone the house out of the lower left corner of the first shot. The third pic is especially stron even though the foreground subject matter is so blah. It works for me due to the contrast between the amazing sunrise and the horrible suburban reality. Nice series.

saurora

Nice shots! Sometimes we just have to shoot them where we see them. I live in a condo complex, so the housing though nice, is not particularly scenic. In #3 I would clone out the blue tarps in the backyard of the house on the right. They keep pulling my eye away from the gorgeous view.

meltonfam

:cry sniff, sniff - these make me miss Denver even more!

(I agree with the blue tarps - otherwise i like 'em!)

osagelady

I agree...very nice! Nice site here too

kkart

photofreak wrote:

I like the last one best...more color...less "stuff" to dertract from what I'm really looking at.
I've done several of those and I get lower and aim higher so I don't get the house tops...MHO
Mandi
www.mandraleephotography.com

Ya I usually do that as well.,here though it's a tad harder as I would get the rungs from my deck in the shot. Though using my P&S s414 would be easier, I seriously need a right angle view finder

kkart

meltonfam wrote:

:cry sniff, sniff - these make me miss Denver even more!

(I agree with the blue tarps - otherwise i like 'em!)

Well i'm sure you know how the saying goes--once you leave Colorado you always come back!

kkart

Charla wrote:

Nope... missed it again, but my husband told me all about it! He said that the falling rain turned orange in the sunrise and that there was a heck of a lightning show. Did you manage to catch any shots?

Ya I did actually, but I couldn't get any of the lightning. You have to start having your husband wake you up!

kkart

truth wrote:

I'd crop or clone the house out of the lower left corner of the first shot. The third pic is especially stron even though the foreground subject matter is so blah. It works for me due to the contrast between the amazing sunrise and the horrible suburban reality. Nice series.

Thanks! Good idea on the clone, I appreciate that

kkart

saurora wrote:

Nice shots! Sometimes we just have to shoot them where we see them. I live in a condo complex, so the housing though nice, is not particularly scenic. In #3 I would clone out the blue tarps in the backyard of the house on the right. They keep pulling my eye away from the gorgeous view.

Thanks and ya I will do that

DavidS

Love the first one.