Feeling of sun - How do you capture your sunset?

KatyaL · September 25, 2019, 6:47am

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Your photo looks great and the composition is perfect! Is this your cat? As we already have a topic about how do you capture your sunset, I hope you won’t mind if I merge your post to it. I’m sure you will like the photos shared there.

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tascadoricky · September 25, 2019, 10:17am

Por do sol, praia de faro.

KatyaL · September 25, 2019, 10:27am

Hi @tascadoricky ,

Welcome to the Local Guides community!

Your photo looks great and the composition is perfect! Is this your cat? As we already have a topic about how do you capture your sunset, I hope you won’t mind if I merge your post to it. I’m sure you will like the photos shared there.

Reading these 14 helpful tips for using Local Guides Connect and the 5 core values on Connect will help you on how to use Connect and follow the guidelines. You’re welcome to introduce yourself in this monthly topic and say “Hi” to everyone!

YasinSB · September 26, 2019, 10:14am

Hello…

No it’s not my cat, but Istanbul it’s the capital of cats

Gurukrishnapriya · October 29, 2019, 11:32am

Hi Good evening @ermest . Thanks for your valuable information. I really don’t know that the lens get spoiled. This is new to me.

The sun is seen like a dot in between the clouds.

Sophia_Cambodia · June 30, 2020, 1:25pm

@ErmesT stunning shots, thanks for sharing and great tips as well…*

ErmesT · June 30, 2020, 3:13pm

Thank you @Sophia_Cambodia

the challenge is to give the “feeling” of sun, possibly without including the sun directly on the photo.

Sophia_Cambodia · June 30, 2020, 3:24pm

@ErmesT I really love this photo of yours. The reflection is superb… May I ask if the birds are real?*

Sophia_Cambodia · June 30, 2020, 3:26pm

@ErmesT sorry, at one glance it does look like birds, when I look again, not birds at all*

ErmesT · June 30, 2020, 3:32pm

hi @Sophia_Cambodia

Do you mean my last photo? Oh, they aren’t birds, this is a nativity built over the water of the Venetian lagoon. All the nativity scene characters are on poles, planted in the water of the lagoon.

I was there for Christmas. The nativity on the water is very common in there.

Here below a different view of the place

Sophia_Cambodia · June 30, 2020, 3:38pm

@ErmesT I see, that is creative. I think I had mien without sun here (palm trees over rice field by Canon 700D, 18-135mm: Sophia_20)*

ErmesT · June 30, 2020, 4:18pm

Amazing @Sophia_Cambodia

everything become indistinct, and the feeling of the heat on the fog is very “important”, on your photo

Sophia_Cambodia · June 30, 2020, 4:27pm

@ErmesT thank you once again. I have not thought about it like that at the time. It just looked so beautiful so I captured it. Btw, your last photo of the lagoon reminded me of a terrific sunset experience over the Great Lake, aka Tonle Sap. It is one of the amazing sunset experience I have ever had. The sun above the lake, plus million of Birds coming back home over the trees… what a combination. I have never seen it anywhere else. It was like a painting by the master mind.*

ErmesT · June 30, 2020, 4:45pm

You are welcome once again, @Sophia_Cambodia .

I can close my eyes and imagine the birds, black on an orange sky.

Sometimes for me the feeling is more important of a self explanatory photo. I agree with you, “it was beautiful, I took a photo”, but time by time I like to ask to myself: “what gives the idea (the feeling) of something?”. We know that it is sunset, or sunrise, because of the intrinsic nature of the event, the reflections, the shadows, the colour of the light. So I wanted to challenge myself.

Same for the moon (I don’t know if you like to take photos of the moon). After 10, 20, 100 photos of the full moon, I wanted to challenge myself, and to “use” the moon as part of a bigger paint: “The Eagle has landed” - The moon on your stories

I believe that challenging ourselves is a way to improve, don’t you agree?

Tejal · July 1, 2020, 1:26am

@ErmesT

Amazing

Regards Tejal

Sophia_Cambodia · July 3, 2020, 4:21am

@ErmesT thank you… you are totally right! you must enjoy taking landscape photography a lot too! I am more into anything. Other than that, I think because the quality of the camera too. Taking photos like the sun or the moon needs a high quality one. However, I think some from the moon, just not very good quality!*