Sunset over St Ives Beach (UK)

[Pete]

Taken with the 5D and 24-70, just couldn't miss shooting a sight like this!

http://www.the-aperture.com/EE/photos/normal/img_0982.jpg

Surfers catching the last of the light

http://www.the-aperture.com/EE/photos/normal/img_0975.jpg

[Bill Boehme]

Wow, Pete, those are great. Our sunsets here in north Texas are seldom interesting -- mostly just an orange ball on the horizon with no colorful clouds. I grew up on the Texas coast where the situation was much different -- it was a light show every evening.

[Pretorious]

Holy cow! It's plain to see why you couldn't resist shooting these. They are fantastic. Stunning beauty and very well captured.

[khall]

Nice pictures. The second really looks great, very nice capture. Had a look at the details 1/1000 at F8.0 I was expecting a really slow shutter speed.

[Pete]

Nice pictures. The second really looks great, very nice capture. Had a look at the details 1/1000 at F8.0 I was expecting a really slow shutter speed.

Many thanks for the comments. You may have noticed that it was shot at ISO400. I did this as I was shooting the surfers earlier and needed good exposure/high SS for thos shots. I just forgot to reset the settings when shooting the sunset. I didn't have a tripod with me, so these were hand held.

There was a guy there with a medium format camera on a tripod who most probably got far better results than I did.

[Pete]

Edit: Noticed these are very dark on my work monitor. Guess that's the problem with working on my Viao with its super bright screen...

[john_s]

Nice shots.