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Last minute dash out to see if I could grab a sunset shot with my daughter. I'll see what she got later but just wondered if anyone thought this worked. I was trying to get a mix of lights both natural and artificial in the shot. Would have liked more aperture star effect but didn't really have time to fiddle about with settings enough.
For me the car in the foreground is a little distracting as in the light from the rear of it on the road. There is not enough of the car to make it a feature with in the frame so i think it needs removing. The colours in the sky could do with warming up a little too.
I agree with Tim about the car in the foreground but I like the sky as it is.
I would crop the bottom rather than the side to remove the car as I think the foreground distracts from the main subjects,the sky and the oncoming car anyway.
I tried lifting the shadows a little so that more of the illumination of the verge and hedge by the headlights shows but it's not really possible with the low res jpg. This would work better with a raw file which should have more data in the shadows.
All that said I like the shot.
Regards.
Peter
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Thanks guys I like what both of you did. Yes it's definitely better to crop off the bottom car. That car was actually moving fast into the shot and the headlight beams were falling on the road. That's what is lighting up the foreground a bit. I was trying to get it as a feature as well but I agree with you both it was just too much and cropping gives a better overall shot.
Phil, Firstly I must admit to a general dislike of portrait formatted landscapes and I'm going to take the opposite view to respected OPs and feature the car and foreground as the subject set against that fabulous sky.
To strike a better balance between sky and foreground I have somewhat condensed the sky by scaling down without cropping it, removed the power grid, brightened the road and selectively highlighted and saturated the complimentary green herbiage to play off against that fiery sunset.
Finally, a 1 pixel stoke to close the picture. Hope you like it.
Edit:
As I see it the main problem with your original is that the sunset completely overwhelms the actual subject, being the mystery of an approaching car at sunset.
I like your idea of using the car headlights to illuminate the foreground and I have tried to give emphasis to that.
Thanks guys it's very interesting how many options can come from one shot.
Paul you definitely made the colours richer and gave the road more interest.
Mark that is closer to the image I had in my mind at the time, you've emphasised the foreground nicely. I know what you mean with portrait landscapes.
Overall I suspect I tried to combine too many elements of interest and just ended up confusing the viewer with my original.
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