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    Mac Wheeler McDougal Jr.'s Avatar
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    I have never tried sunrises and so I can certainly use some advice on this one. For the last 6 weeks I have been fortunate enough to be living in a house on the coast in Florida and every morning I have been shooting sunrises, some good and others not so good. Shooting data follows:
    Nikon D3S
    2012:03:15 0675
    24-70mm @ 29mm
    29mm (in 35mm film)
    1/100 sec, f/18
    Mode: Manual
    Metering: Multi-segment
    ISO: 400
    White balance: Auto
    Flash: Off
    File size: 170MB
    Image size: 4256 x 2832
    Color space: AdobeRGB
    Saturation: Normal
    Sharpness: Normal
    Contrast: Normal
    Color profile: Adobe RGB (1998)

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    Angelika Schauf
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    Very nice dramatic cloud atmosphere.

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    Very nice, Wheeler. I love the rays, the strong cloud formation and the overall mood/simplicity here.
    I do feel the water is a tad underexposed and could be brought back up a notch. Ideally blending multiple exposures would've worked a treat here (or shooting with a neutral density filter).

    How's this B&W conversion I quickly processed? I felt this has a good graphic quality for such an experiment...
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    A great image , suggest a crop above the wave on the left hand side , some highlite recovery and up the contrast to make this one pop a little more. I tried with this file but size made for poor repost ! Morkel , filters are great idea nd could take this up a notch with exposure balancing :) Wheeler , keep shooting !!!

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    Robert Amoruso
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    Thanks Morkel, just what I was thinking.

    Mac,

    Great dramatic light but not a lot of color so a B&W treatment really amps this one up IMO. Great the yiu have rain coming down and I like that you included enough of the God Rays and did not limit the big sky view. I would have liked a bit more FG to allow more of the sand to show and have an untruncated wave line in the FG - but a minor quibble to be sure with this nicely executed image.

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