Amazing Sunset at Marina Del Ray, California

[aero-nut]

So, a friend of a friend has a 42 foot yacht.... and we had a little fun on the weekend. The weather couldn't have been better, and mother nature put on a show for us... Needless to say I took tons of pics...but here's a few of my favorites:

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http://aero-nut.smugmug.com/photos/15473659-L.jpg


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[ginger_55]

great sunsets! I got some last evening. So different from yours. Yours are peaceful. I get the feeling from mine that my city and surrounding areas are at war.

I am trying to learn how saturated, and how contrasty a sunset should be. I like yours. I contrasted mine up for pop, as advised. Then I looked in a book by a famous current working photographer in this area. His were not super contrasty.

I have been saying all day that the more I learn the less I know.

yours are, as I said, wonderful.

ginger

[aero-nut]

great sunsets! I got some last evening. So different from yours. Yours are peaceful. I get the feeling from mine that my city and surrounding areas are at war.

I am trying to learn how saturated, and how contrasty a sunset should be. I like yours. I contrasted mine up for pop, as advised. Then I looked in a book by a famous current working photographer in this area. His were not super contrasty.

I have been saying all day that the more I learn the less I know.

yours are, as I said, wonderful.

ginger
Thank you for your kind comments, ginger. The contrast thing is indeed something that I am struggling with too. I played with the saturation on these for a long time before I was happy, and then I realized that they were barely any different from the originals.


:dunno

[fish]

Nice shots. But dood...you've got a dirty sensor. See the dark spots in the sky? I'm kinda sensitive to it right now. (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=6017&highlight=sensor)

[aero-nut]

Nice shots. But dood...you've got a dirty sensor. See the dark spots in the sky? I'm kinda sensitive to it right now. (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=6017&highlight=sensor)
Hmmm... hadn't noticed that before....thanks for pointing it out. It'll be my first time having to clean it.. I'm sure it will be an adventure. From everything I've read...it seems I just need to make sure I have a full charge in the battery, put the camera in sensor clean mode, and use a puffer thingy to gently blow on the exposed sensor.. Does that sound about right?