Critiques welcomed as always.
There was a brief intermission in the recent days of deluge and I grabbed my camera and got myself off for sunrise. I didn't have time to consider where to go very thoughtfully since I hadn't expected itnot to be pouring. I took this as a bracketted shot but didnt like how the HDR came out so I took my favorite single shot and played a bit with the exposure. Color is SOCC. A windy beautiful dawn before 1 1/2 more inches of rainfall.
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with sunrises you have to have your wits about you don't you as the colour can come and go very fast, the 1 sec exposure has blurred the water slightly which is nice, maybe you could have gone all out to get as much blur as possible with your settings. I tried using the hdr setting on my camera yesterday, it seemed like a good idea for a bright sky but even the slight movement of touching the shutter button blurred the images, so I have to try that again with 2 sec delay. with the curve of your clouds here it almost looks like the mast is propping them up :)
The sun having dropped behind the trees makes this work very well as a single shot rather than HDR...there is enough light and detail on the boat with the available light and playing with the exposure. I love your composition and the colours, both in the sky and the reflection. I do find the dark pillars on the far left a bit distracting, but I'm not sure if one could have improved on that by using a different POV...
@ericdibosco lol! Sunrise not set so the sun wasn't past the trees yet! There was no place on the dock to change the perspective. Do you think they'd need less distracting if lighter. I could have cropped them off but then the boat would be so close to that side. I also could make them darker in hopes of creating something like a frame drawing the eye back into the frame.
@jgpittenger My bad!!! :( ...didn't read your caption, did I? LOL
No, if there wasn't any place to manoeuvre, which I thought might have been the case, I would leave them as they are...they're not that much distracting.
No, if there wasn't any place to manoeuvre, which I thought might have been the case, I would leave them as they are...they're not that much distracting.