Lower New York Bay Sunset 02

Thank you for your time and comments.

very good shot

Thanks Mario.

Nicer!!!

MAnuel

Excelleny mood.

Yongbo, only you could make NYC look so beautiful!

Thanks for the nice comments. I will try my best to "paint" my city.

Magnifica luz,, encuadre y bello atardecer,,,saludos,

I dont get it, how have you done it...? I mean: it's obvious you used a long exposition for the foreground, but in the background the sun is like it were a usual shot, no long-exposed... If this image is not a composite of two images, could you please tell this ignorant photographer how to achieve such a beautiful image? ^-^

Hi Nestor, The original file name for this shot is CRW_8777.CRW. I have other two images took 2 minutes before and after. It was 2 minutes exposure; the sun was more than half below the horizon and only in the frame for less than a minute. According to histogram, the one in the middle got more information. I hope I can figure out how to merge 2 shots to save the money for Grad ND, but not able to do that yet. It's one shot, the only thing I did after the conversion was using Neat Image to remove the noise and apply USM by 0.5 pixel for the web version. Just bought a book by John Hedgecoe - The new manual of photography. The ignorant photographer title is more proper for me. Regards, Yongbo

 

This is what I did for the RAW conversion (Photoshop CS2):

 

Temperature: 2700

Tint: 0

Exposure: -0.25

Shadows: 2

Brightness: 50

Contrast: +25

Saturation: +50

 

 

Shadow Tint: 0

Red Hue: +100

Red Saturation: 0

Green Hue: -10

Green Saturation: 0

Blue Hue: -10

Blue Saturation: -50

wow THAT was an explanation!! Thanks!

You are welcome.

Great looking image, Yongbo. Has a very surreal quality to it , which I like. Yes, the new 5D sounds just about right for me at this point. Looking forward to it.

beautiful