Not Your Typical Sunset...

but I thought it was nice just the same.

It is nice Ken! Good job! I like it!

Are you an avid beekeeper ? or were they just there as you took the shot. Like the flare coming from the top, adds colour to the image. I find the sky intersting colour and was wondering if it was really that colour or due to the location of the sunlight and it was more of a backing effect .

Thanks for sharing .

Charkra wrote:

Are you an avid beekeeper ? or were they just there as you took the shot. Like the flare coming from the top, adds colour to the image. I find the sky intersting colour and was wondering if it was really that colour or due to the location of the sunlight and it was more of a backing effect .
Thanks for sharing .

Thanks Neva, Charkra No, I am not a beekeeper but one of my neighbors is. He has several large gardens and has beehives everywhere. Last summer he brought me a jar of honey from one of his many hives. I tend to stay away from bees though, I once was extremely allergic to their stings but now only mildly so.

The photo was touched up with a lighting tool using Photo Impact and that explains the sky. In a good many of my photographs, I prefer to have the sky more subdued than most people might would want.

Ken Ramos wrote:
The photo was touched up with a lighting tool using Photo Impact and that explains the sky. In a good many of my photographs, I prefer to have the sky more subdued than most people might would want. [/quote]

I actually like the sky subdued in this picture. What I like most is the lens flare -- it's catching enough sun to cause the flare but not quite enough to show internal reflections. It definitely gives a feel of a long, sweltering-hot summer day.

As for subdued skies, Ansel Adams made that his stock in trade.

OrcaBob wrote:

What I like most is the lens flare --

Yeah I had to do some playing around with that. This was shot with a Canon G7, which made it easy to adjust to get the flare where I wanted it, well sort of, that was about the third attempt to get it where I wanted it. Ansel Adams you say...

Thanks OrcaBob

Ansel went to the extreme, adding the red filter to darken the skies as much as possible. Amazing, how such a little change can make such a watershed in outdoor photography. Of course, he was working with some of the world's most incredible scenery to start with...



A very different treatment of the sky from yours, but the intent is largely the same: don't let the sky impose on the subject.

You know I find that a lot in some photographs, the sky over powering the image as a whole or if it is blown, it then really is distracting. I really like black and white photography but in this day of color and digital, most people don't care for it and that is a shame really. For many years black and white images dominated the scene for many journalist and professional photographers alike, trying to set the mood of a scene. Today, it is graphic color images, or so it seems, that everyone wants.

You're right, Ken, but there are pockets of humanity that are relearning the value of black-and-white. I'm getting a lot of models who want black-and-white added to their portfolios. It's a very welcome trend.