Madaket Harbor Sunset 091509

Just another sunset over the harbor.

I like the way the clouds draw the eye into the photo.

Great cloudscape, perfect for a radial composition. Simple, yet very powerful. My only nit is the blown out red channel.

Hi Carsten,

 

You are right. Guilty as charged. It was a hand held grab shot with the 5D MII that I took while setting up the 8 x 10. (Which I have not scanned but will get around to soon.) Nah, the red channel will probably be blown out there too.

 

What would you have done about this? Two exposures?

 

Bill

Bill, two exposures are a possible solution, but quite often you dont realize the problem, even the histogram is often misleading. You can fix the clipped channel by masking, see this tutorial on luminous-landscape

 

BTW, how often do you miss a special cloudscape situation, changing while you are setting up your 8x10 ?

 

Cheers

 

Carsten

Hi Carsten,

 

Thanks for the tip. I suspect that shooting in RAW would help as well. This was shot in JPG with landscape saturation set at +3 or 4. I have to believe that that can push the colors off the chart.

 

As for the luminous landscape article, I was intrigued and tried replicating their results on their sample. I think I am doing something wrong but I can see the potential of the technique. Thanks for the tip. Something new to learn!

 

Cheers,

Bill

If you tried this with a jpeg, forget it. 8 bits per channel doesnt provide enough room, use RAW -

 

Cheers

 

Carsten