Note to self: when taking pictures, make sure a) the bloody horizon is straight, b) you don’t have the lens set to manual focus and forget to focus it.
Sigh… I took 15 or 20 shots of the sunset today which looked gorgeous through the viewfinder, except for the fact that they’re all crooked and out of focus.
Fortunately, I got lucky with this one. Ideally I’d crop it about 1/4 of the way from the top, but I said I wasn’t going to do anything like that, and I’ve only lied once so far.
f/2.5, 1/2500s, ISO-400
f/6.3, 1/640s, ISO-400
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Looking good, but I’m not sure why you’d choose ISO 400 when you’ve got that much room to slow it down? I’m also puzzled by the choice of a small f-stop, given that the focus is far away… did you want the foreground to be out-of-focus?
Anyways, beautiful picture, and personally, I wouldn’t crop the sky at all, since I love sky gradients so much. Although you would get a nicer presence from the trees with a bit of cropping… hmmm.
Thanks for keeping up with the project and posting such great pictures.
Well, first off I had my camera set to auto-pick ISO, and it picked 400. In retrospect I should have slowed it down.
I took several others with higher f-stop, and on first run-through I thought I liked this one better. On second run-through, I changed my mind. I posted another version.
Hmmm… I can see from the second one that you didn’t actually have as much room with the f-stop as I thought. I actually like the first one better for its brighter sky.
The second one was also me shooting in manual, so I probably could’ve been able to squeeze it a little bit brighter.