Sunrise over Long Island Sound

lifesdisciple

Woke up early yesterday morning and headed down to [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Connecticut Audubon Society's Coastal Center at Milford Point to watch the sun rise. Words can't explain how it made me feel. It was just beautiful. The water, the sun, the sounds of the birds. What more could you ask for. Anyways, here are some of the pics. Hope you enjoy them.








Here is a link to the rest of the pictures I took yesterday.
http://lifesdisciple.smugmug.com/gallery/2201522
Some were from the same location and others were from a place I like to go hiking. Feel free to check them out, leave some comments and while your there I'd love for you to sign my guestbook. Thanks and have a great night.:D

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Phyxius

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Looks like a beautiful location, but I'm sure it was COLD with the weather we've all been having the last few days!

Were you using a graduated ND filter? I really think that would have helped you out a bit with the below the horizon portions being so dark. Maybe even a reverse ND.

Of the shots you posted I really like the last two, second to last needs to be rotated a tad to level out the horizon and in the last shot a small crop to remove the land at the bottom would be great!

lifesdisciple

Phyxius wrote:

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Looks like a beautiful location, but I'm sure it was COLD with the weather we've all been having the last few days!

Yes it was pretty windy and cold. But so worth it.

Phyxius wrote:

Were you using a graduated ND filter? I really think that would have helped you out a bit with the below the horizon portions being so dark. Maybe even a reverse ND.

Wasn't using any filters. The water was just that dark. Everything was pretty much a silhouette. Would a reverse ND help the dark water? Would it make the sky too light in return?

Phyxius wrote:

Of the shots you posted I really like the last two, second to last needs to be rotated a tad to level out the horizon and in the last shot a small crop to remove the land at the bottom would be great!

Didn't notice the tilt, thanks for the heads up. I'll have to fix that. I thought about the crop on the last one but thought it gave a bit of perspsective, no? Maybe i'll try the crop and compare the two and see which looks better. Thanks a bunch for the input, much appreciated. Have a great day.

Phyxius

lifesdisciple wrote:

Wasn't using any filters. The water was just that dark. Everything was pretty much a silhouette. Would a reverse ND help the dark water? Would it make the sky too light in return?

Here's a lot of info on the Reverse Graduated ND Filter
Basically. the bottom is clear, the "horizon" is 1,2, or 3 stops and then it graduates to 1 or 2 stops to the top. There are some sample images on that page too.

lifesdisciple wrote:

Didn't notice the tilt, thanks for the heads up. I'll have to fix that. I thought about the crop on the last one but thought it gave a bit of perspsective, no? Maybe i'll try the crop and compare the two and see which looks better. Thanks a bunch for the input, much appreciated. Have a great day.

I think it would be better without it at all, but if you wanted it for perspective I'd see about getting a little bit more and making sure it was level. As is, it looks like a mistake since it tapers off on the left side. But, those are some NICE colors!!