Colorado Sunset From My Balcony

[David Stephens]

Sunset clouds, from my balcony by David Stephens, on Flickr

Canon 5D MkIII, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS, Av Mode, ISO 200, +1EV, f/6.3, resulting in 1/13-second, with Raw conversion in DxO Optics Pro 8.0

[Don Railton]

Hi Dave.. Beautiful sky & colour.! Not sure if you used a tripod or not, i am guessing not, because I think there is a hint of softness in the building detail. My choice for shooting a scene like this is to use say F13ish and a tripod and blend two exposures so there can be a little more detail in the FG without washing out the sky. Tripod fixes both (minor) issues.. Are the two dots hot pixels or aircraft lights. Thinking the later

regards

DON

[David Stephens]

Don, thanks for your suggestions. I toyed with bring up more FG detail, but preferred just the hint of reflection on the buildings. I also toyed with cropping out more of the really dark area, but thought that the proportional balance went out of kilter. I'm still on the fence about the crop.

[Andrew McLachlan]

Don touches on all of the points I was going to note...would love to see a repost.