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Andy Szeto
{K:212} 3/25/2004
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Thank you all for the nice comments and suggestions. I was with a bus tour in one of the shore excursions from a cruise. The tour guide only gave us 20 minutes free time to take pictures. I was very lucky to have seen such a wonderful sunset. I have to confess that when I took these photos, my fellow bus mates were all waiting on the bus for me ;)
About the photo. Since I do not use a lens hood, I want to use a small aperture to minimize any flare from the sun. I wanted to include more of the church's roof in the foreground but decided to include more of the sky instead. I used a 2 stop graduate neutral density filter to darkened the sky a little. I tried different elevation just to make sure the tip of the taller bell tower fall right outside of the volcano. I used the camera's matrix metering system for the exposure and turn on the flash just to light up the bell towers.
The raw image was scanned with a Nikon CoolScan IV ED without any alteration. Then I used PhotoShop Limited Edition's level to bring the contrast to match the print I got from the lab.
I welcome any suggestion on how to make this photo better. Thanks.
Andy
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Lou Dina
{K:12194} 3/25/2004
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Gorgeous image. I agree that the church needs to be lightened a little. That would really make a good shot great IMO. Lou
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Priyadarshi Sinha
{K:7238} 3/24/2004
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marvellous compition .. this is one of the few sunset /sunrise shot with such a great foreground .. really liked it .. btw its color is amazing :))
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Debarshi Duttagupta
{K:26815} 3/24/2004
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beautiful sunset.
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Paul Lara
{K:88111} 3/24/2004
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Wow. Really nice, but I'd dodge that church just a bit to give it more foreground prominance.
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Lee Harris
{K:14694} 3/24/2004
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Beautiful...
Captured very well.
The colors set a romantic mood.
Wish you had told us a little about this image.
Best Regards
Lee
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Angela Harrison
{K:43} 3/24/2004
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Absolutely beautiful!
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