Hi All
This is my very first post in this forum though not a newcomer to photography or indeed Canon DSLRs. I was introduced to this excellent looking forum by my very good friend and fellow member here Andy Mackie. We both have Canon EOS 5D cameras but his is the superb new MkIII and mine the older but still excellent MkII which I still love to bits.
Anyway he suggested I should start by making a post here with a sample shot. So here is my initial effort with a recent shot I took a few weeks ago.
I used low level fill-in flash lighting reducing the flash output down to -2.3 stops to give a little more foreground detail on the lower left rock to balance the shot out a little and act as a pointer to the main post sunset sky subject. It was taken from a small secluded beach on the Thai mainland near to Pattaya harbour looking out to Koh Larn island. I waited some while for this shot until the warm post sunset sky produced the nice fanning out cloud shadow effect, which does not last very long when you are lucky enough to see it. I know sunset shots are ten a penny and indeed i have hundreds of them, but I was rather happy with this particular one.
Constructive comments most welcome of course. I am currently concentrating on the much needed honing of my limited compositional skills.
Technical details. EOS 5D2, EF17-40mm f4 L with JYC Pro1-D C-PL filter fitted, Yongnuo YN 568EX Speedlight for fill in flash. Shot RAW using a monopod at 17mm, f8, ISO 800, 1/100th sec FEC set to -2.33. Processed with Lightroom 4
Koh Larn, Thailand. Post Sunset.jpg by raymwuk, on Flickr
This is my very first post in this forum though not a newcomer to photography or indeed Canon DSLRs. I was introduced to this excellent looking forum by my very good friend and fellow member here Andy Mackie. We both have Canon EOS 5D cameras but his is the superb new MkIII and mine the older but still excellent MkII which I still love to bits.
Anyway he suggested I should start by making a post here with a sample shot. So here is my initial effort with a recent shot I took a few weeks ago.
I used low level fill-in flash lighting reducing the flash output down to -2.3 stops to give a little more foreground detail on the lower left rock to balance the shot out a little and act as a pointer to the main post sunset sky subject. It was taken from a small secluded beach on the Thai mainland near to Pattaya harbour looking out to Koh Larn island. I waited some while for this shot until the warm post sunset sky produced the nice fanning out cloud shadow effect, which does not last very long when you are lucky enough to see it. I know sunset shots are ten a penny and indeed i have hundreds of them, but I was rather happy with this particular one.
Constructive comments most welcome of course. I am currently concentrating on the much needed honing of my limited compositional skills.
Technical details. EOS 5D2, EF17-40mm f4 L with JYC Pro1-D C-PL filter fitted, Yongnuo YN 568EX Speedlight for fill in flash. Shot RAW using a monopod at 17mm, f8, ISO 800, 1/100th sec FEC set to -2.33. Processed with Lightroom 4
Koh Larn, Thailand. Post Sunset.jpg by raymwuk, on Flickr
, so before I move on from this thread I wanted to share just a couple more I kind of liked from this particular sunset shoot. Taken from different positions to the first thread shot, with different foregrounds and at different times too. The first one taken earlier just before the sun actually set, and the other slightly later again with the fanning out cloud shadows. As I mentioned above quite different perspectives and foreground detail.
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