NeonSunset

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Sunset last night taken from my kitchen deck. The colors were that intense and gorgeous!!!! Ever so slight color tweek, exposure, contrast and sharpening done in Lightroom.

K5IIs + Sigma's newest 18 -200 Contemporary. Taken at 63mm at 5.6 and 1/15 sec. at 1600 ISO...hand held, braced on deck rail (sun was going down fast and I didn't want to miss this by setting up a tripod). Photos had some obvious blur, but took care of it to my liking in pp.

I I so badly wanted to do a full blown water color effect on this photo, but I refrained and kept it to nearly the way I experienced it!

10/12/2015 - 05:17Wildwood512

CategoryLandscape / Travel

BodyPENTAX K-5 II s

Shutter Speed1/15

Aperturef/5.6

LensN/A

ISO1600

Focal Length63mm

Views/Likes79/3

Tagssunset, painted sky, trees, sillhouette, neon

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Nigelk

Member

12 years

Link Posted 10/12/2015 - 07:41

Really like the hot colours at the bottom turning to cold at the top. Good use of the belt of trees. Cracking photograph.

Mag07

Member

8 years
London, England

Link Posted 10/12/2015 - 12:36

Stunning photo.

'Photography...it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten....' (Aaron Siskind)

bwlchmawr

Member

13 years
Somerset

Link Posted 10/12/2015 - 18:07

Gorgeous colours, Donna. And the silhouetted trees really add to the effect. What a super view to look out on from a kitchen. Still no snow, I take it. (Could do with it being colder in Green Bay this weekend, the Cowboys don't like it up them!)

We've only had one slight frost so far to clobber the dahlias and daytime temperatures in the mid teens (centigrade).

Best wishes,

Andrew

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Robert Adams
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davidwozhere

Member

9 years
Slap in the middle of England

Link Posted 10/12/2015 - 23:22

I'll sit in your kitchen any time Donna if that's what there is to look at - super image

Both the *istDS and the K5 are incurably addicted to old glass

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GIULIO57

Member

14 years
Firenze-Italia

Link Posted 11/12/2015 - 05:18

Original

PPG

davidtrout

Plus Member

15 years
Durham, England

Link Posted 11/12/2015 - 11:10

Handheld at 1/16th sec with the lens at 63mm....very impressive even when braced against a rail.
David

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Wildwood512

Member

8 years
Illinois, USA

Link Posted 11/12/2015 - 18:14

Thanks everyone! Wish I could have shared the actual sunset with you all...on my deck with a glass of wine, all of us shooting our own versions. It's a nice thought, no?

Cheers 🍷

Cheers...Donna 😊

PeterKR

Member

12 years

Link Posted 11/12/2015 - 20:10

What a great image, Donna ......

"Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"

I couldn't have put it better than William Blake !

Best regards
Peter

davidtrout

Plus Member

15 years
Durham, England

Link Posted 11/12/2015 - 23:44

Wildwood512 wrote:
Thanks everyone! Wish I could have shared the actual sunset with you all...on my deck with a glass of wine, all of us shooting our own versions. It's a nice thought, no?

Cheers 🍷

I like the thought of that wine
David

PPG: http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/davidtrout

alfpics

Member

18 years
north Devon

Link Posted 12/12/2015 - 00:30

davidtrout wrote:

I like the thought of that wine
David

Sounds good to me as well! How about chartering a plane for us all to join you?

Anyway - to the image; nice one!

Andy

Last Edited by alfpics on 12/12/2015 - 00:30

Wildwood512

Member

8 years
Illinois, USA

Link Posted 12/12/2015 - 01:36

Peter that quote from William Blake is beautiful and so apropos!!!!
Thank you!

Andy, if you guys fly in on a chopper, you could land right in my yard! 🚁

David, wine for all!!!!

Cheers...Donna 😊

pauljay

Member

15 years
The Dutch Alps!

Link Posted 12/12/2015 - 23:01

We've had a few sunsets like that here over the past few weeks! Aren't they gorgeous!

Paul.

Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried! (Bill Brandt)
PPG

Wildwood512

Member

8 years
Illinois, USA

Link Posted 13/12/2015 - 05:44

Thanks for commenting, Paul. And yes, the sunsets have been breathtaking!

Cheers...Donna 😊

Last Edited by Wildwood512 on 13/12/2015 - 05:46

autumnlight

Member

13 years
Derbyshire

Link Posted 13/12/2015 - 23:38

Oooohhh that's a lovely sight to behold Donna hope you enjoy many an evening on your dec.

Kind regards Maria

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Wildwood512

Member

8 years
Illinois, USA

Link Posted 13/12/2015 - 23:40

Why thank you Miss Maria!!!!

Cheers...Donna 😊

BruceStrachan

Member

9 years
Dundee, Scotland

Link Posted 07/01/2016 - 13:16

Another great shot.
View from my house is just a really high wall of conifers robbing all the light and effects such as these...

Cheers,

Bruce

Wildwood512

Member

8 years
Illinois, USA

Link Posted 07/01/2016 - 18:43

Thanks Bruce! 😄

Cheers...Donna 😊

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Camera Make:	PENTAX
Camera Model:	PENTAX K-5 II s
Date Taken:	2015-12-09 17:54:27
Exposure Program:	Aperture priority
Aperture:	f/5.6
Max Aperture Value:	N/A
ISO Speed Rating:	1600
Focal Length:	63 mm
Lens:	N/A
Metering Mode:	Pattern/Matrix
Exposure Time:	1/15 sec