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Published: 2008-11-17 05:05:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 453; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 15
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Each summer evening the sun sets on Cook Inlet in Alaska... eventually. This is one of the moments I captured while fishing for salmon commercially this summer.Related content
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My biggest problem with this is the burn-through. I personally dislike it. It is an issue with digital cameras. Where the light is too intense, you get white areas with no detail. You either have to change the exposure or the iso to get color and detail in those areas. I usually find it easiest to just focus on the brightest part of the composition and lock in the metering, then recompose my shot so I get a minimum or no burn-through, preferably none. Yes, it will darken the overall photo but I find that less offensive than the burn-through. JMHO.
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Okay, I see what you're saying. You've heightened my awareness of this problem (after all, you're a professional sunset Deva in my book...)
Okay, so maybe you'd suggest spot metering for the sun basically... then underexpose the rest of the shot and brighten it up later??
Thanks for the heads up. You're amazing.
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Actually, if you use matrix metering with the sun as the center, you get a better balance of light and dark often without the need to later lighten the rest of the photo. Spot metering is more for subtler contrast differences where you don't want part to wash out. You will have to play with it to see what I mean. You learn which types of scenes you need which for just by shooting enough of them. When I first got serious about photography about 20 years ago, I took a course mostly to see how a camera sees. The prof when he learned my art background asked what he was supposed to teach me. His suggestion was just to take lots of photos until I learned and to experiment, experiment, experiment. At that time, I didn't have a camera that would do everything for you. Even though I do now, I still experiment and often push my camera to its technical limits and have certain user settings for some things but you can learn how to manipulate even the fully automatic settings pretty well. As far as a professional Deva goes, I can't claim to have sold very many but I do have over 10,000 digital sunset files since early 2005. And that's weeded to a degree, at least, the worst have been removed. 
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Hurray!!! I'm so glad you like it. 
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This is a better shot than "Texas Red". It appears you did this with a point and shoot. There's not much you could do different with the camera you were shooting.
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Hehe.
I guess not, I just wish I could have captured the real thing... sunsets there were breathtaking!
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see? this is what i need to do with my pics... make them look awesome! ^^
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This was super easy! I did virtually nothing to this picture. I did some simple editing in Picasa [link]
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*downloads Picasa* 
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yay! It's fairly easy to use, but if you have any questions feel free to ask.
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Guh. You call MY stuff good? In comparison to yours! There is no comparison. This picutre is a-MAZING. The reflection the stillness, the *color*. Absolutely breathtaking.
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Thank-you very much!
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now that you have the d40 a nd grad filter would have improved this shot. You can make the water look like glass with the long exposure. I do not have one of these but there on my want list with every thing else.
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Hehe. What isn't on a true artist's wish list? Flame thrower, submarine, ultralight, old wooden ship, suit of armor. All to help in our pursuit of art, right?
I will look into the grad filter, thanks for the tip and for the fantastic renditions of my work.
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he he thats right I bet my wife would love to see ebay go bankrupt I spend to much time shopping for new and better. I can only window shop though at this point in time
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Yep, I know how you feel! *sigh*
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yea right now I am looking for a nd filter the worlds best monitor and well I am always looking to upgrade mu camera just no one will accept my monopoly money
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Hehe. I have no idea why! With an honest face like yours I'd by beach front property in Arizona! Well, rock on.
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so how does a $10000 for that beach front property sound I can through the golden gate in for another $5000. with today's prices on Gold thats a bargain
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cool as soon as you make the deposit in my Swiss account I will mail you the keys
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