June Sunrise
Dawn sunrise over rolling hills taken from perch in Clinton Massachsetts. It was taken with a Canon 30D with a fixed mm Canon lens, s=1-30, f=2.2, ISO=30. Some ...
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Dawn sunrise over rolling hills taken from perch in Clinton Massachsetts. It was taken with a Canon 30D with a fixed mm Canon lens, s=1-30, f=2.2, ISO=30. Some post-processing with Adobe Lightroom led to this vivid display with balance and brilliance.
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JackDeMember
June 16, 2016
This was taken at about 4:45am 6/8/2016 of a sunrise over the rolling hills of Central Massachsetts. It is not just an ordinary sunrise picture as it shows balance for foreground, middle and sunrise portions. This lends an almost 3D effect and the colors do the rest.
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Rolenz
August 14, 2016
Welcome to Viewbug. Great image look forward to seeing more of your images. Cheers Roy.
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Behind The Lens
Location
This photo was taken from Rubens Hill in Clinton Massachusetts at about 600’ above sea level. It was after a stormy night which provided the canvas of rolling clouds for this shot.Time
It was taken about 4:30am in June.Lighting
For composition in sunrises and sunset photos, I try to include something that will make it standout and not just be another sunset or sunrise. Facilitating this I try and capture a large depth of field and well balanced exposure. From a compositional point of view, this photo has assets that accelerate its quality beyond the norm. First - the sunrise itself with colors on the rolling clouds, second - equally nice exposure across the range for sunrise, condo buildings and trees, and the combination of an attractive three elements in foreground, midrange and background with good and true color throughout. I believe that these factors have led to the popularity of this photo on ViewBug.Equipment
I took this photo with the IPhone 6+ camera (f/11/5, IOS 50, 1/30sec, and 83/20mm). Both my SLRs were in another State at my second home at the time. I use a Canon EOS R full frame routinely but this photo shows that the equipment means a lot sometimes but other times, with the right composition you can do great photos with an IPhone too.Inspiration
The spectacular view at the moment but I was there at 4:30am expecting it. The ability to capture a high dynamic range photo with three points of interest to the view drew my to try and photograph it.Editing
I use Lightroom, Photoshop and Topaz software to bring my photos as close to what I remember to be actually what I saw. For example, the shadows being brought forward by Lightroom allowed me to bring out the deep green trees in the foreground to match what the eye saw but the camera exposure put virtually in the dark shadows in this picture of a sunrise. With sunrise and sunsets it’s very hard to get balanced light exposure for RAW unedited photos.In my camera bag
I carry a camera backpack with an ef canon 50mm f/1.2 portrait lens, an ef sigma 40-300mm telephoto lens, many filters and lens cleaning tools, a remote shutter control, the canon EOS R camera with an ef 24-105mm lens with ef ring adapter, a 580 Canon Speedlite flash, and hanging off the sides a tripod and unipod.Feedback
Anticipating the affects of weather and timing, selecting a great location and being ready for the moment are the big aspects of sunrise and sunset photography. The location should provide and least two and possibly three different points of value as mentioned above in the photo in foreground, center and/or background. You should strive for this to make the photo stand out among others.
