A very well executed shot, pin sharp without loosing that softness of light & colour.
Graham

The trouble is that any classic shot can become a cliché, the one I tire of the most is the Sunrise at Bambrugh Castle taken from stag rock, I have seen so many attempts to copy Joe Cornish it has become white noise, however I bet the last lot of sunsets I posted had the same effect on some members of this forum. link

Mine wobbles as well, It's a bit of a bind when you are shooting set to manual focus. But I still like this lens a lot

Will a Duck at dusk do?




I would be intrigued to know what elements constitute a cliched sunset / sunrise

Each viewer takes what they can get

On the way home for me too, it is one of those images where all that space around the subject just works, something photographically I have yet to achieve, I think it also give a bit of context rather than just being a picture of an object.

Now this is where I get on shaky ground not having used a TC or taken pictures of planes so please forgive me!!!!

"Here we go" has a bit of shake on the top wing blurring the line a little, although I do like the propeller movement.

"Landed" A nice image but looks a little two dimensional and maybe would have benefited from a smaller aperture to blur the background.

"In a Hover" Nice and sharp, but again a bit two dimensional maybe if the speed was just a little slower so that I could see those blades spinning.

I hope this does not sound to harsh, It's not meant to sound that way

I think number four would have really worked if you could have singled out a poppy in the nearer foreground to give the eye something to lead into the image. It has to be number one for me this is nicely composed and shows the poppy in different stages of development.

Nice swan shot

When I first looked at the original I thought "could be improved with a bit more saturation" however, the longer I have looked at it the more my view has changed. I missed the subtle light tones hitting the side wall of the building on my first but high speed glance. It was not until I actually stopped & really looked that this image grew on me. So to round up, I concur with David's comment above, nice shot.

Graham

Ban sunsets & swan shots Next to sitting on a mountain top alone, early in the morning, sunrises and sunsets are the moments I live for and I would be seriously stumped, even if it makes me a cliché. I see so much beauty I these things, subtle changes is shades, colour & tone and not forgetting dusk light shining through swans wings, translucent light illuminating swan beaks, reflections on droplets of water, arrgh I must stop before I start wondering lonely as cloud!!!!

On a more serious note the town I live in has quite an industrial feel that is transformed dramatically when the sun starts to rise or set, the subtle changes in light have encouraged me to constantly revisit areas I probably would have very quickly become board with and as a result my camera would have several hundred less clicks or possibly ended up on ebay. We can all become bored with certain types of picture and as a consequence see them as inconsequential. For me all my sunsets are an attempt to let the viewer see what I see, to capture a moment and the trouble is I always fall short of the mark. So until I do manage to bottle that emotion in a single image and get it out of my system, more of the same I'm afraid