Sunrise Snapshot

[slejhamer]

Beach vacation snapshot. Not much photoshopping, other than contrast enhancement (levels), and Pekka's "normal sharpening" action with +5 saturation. Shifting the black and white points (levels sliders) made the colors a bit more dramatic.

Looks noiser here than the original - too much jpegging I guess; sorry.

http://members.cox.net/mschlesinger/rehoboth-sunrise.jpg

[ryuwulf]

very awesome!!!

Bravo......

it seems like you have captured the moment.


i really dont know what to say. lighten maybe???

either way, great pic

[mpaul73]

There's not much to fault here it's really good. The only thing is that bottom right of the photo has gone to black for some reason? Also I think the pic needs to be finished with some kind of simple frame. Anyway, great shot.

Martin.

[pappy]

This is SPECTACULAR!! Very well done.

regards,
peter

[stopbath]

Great shot. Lively colours, though the photo does come across as a tad on the dark side.

[RedShoesGirl]

On my Mac monitor the shot looks perfect. Not too dark. Very very neat image.

RSG

[msvadi]

Hi,
Great picture. What camera do you use? And what additional equipment one needs to shot something like that? Also, can you explain please what's "normal sharpening"?
Thanks

[jinushaun]

JEEBUS! The colour!

[tenerife]

Hi Mitch, great....

Klaus

[Conk]

Nice shot Mitch. Mind sharing the exif info on this?

[slejhamer]

Hi folks; thanks for all the comments.

EXIF for Conk: 1/750s, f8.0, at 38mm. In hindsight I should have used a smaller aperture and slower shutter, but I had been tracking gulls in "sport" mode the night before and forgot to switch modes for this morning shot.

msvadi: this was taken with a 10D and Canon 28-135 IS lens, with no additional filters. "Normal sharpening" is simply Pekka's sharpening action within his 10D workflow tools. You can download the action from this site if you do a search for it.

Martin and others: I didn't intend for the bottom right to go to black, but that's where it ended up when I squeezed the levels sliders a little bit. I wish it had a touch of color like the bottom left, but I guess the darkness of the clouds above prevented the light from hitting it as much.

Thanks again.

[SoCal69]

Simply amazing!

[Conk]

Even though you say a smaller aperture and slower shutter would have been more suitable (and I do agree) the photo came out reasonably well with the frontal lighting and no lens flair. I guess that's the difference in the jump to the 10D. A wider range in settings.
Still, a very brilliant shot.