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      09-21-2014, 03:53 PM   #5422
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Damn that is nice. Mine pales next to it...
Thanks David.

Rather than "pale" I'd say that yours is more subtle.

You know, with sunsets, I think that it's a real mistake to try to make more out of a sunset than what really happened. These days, thanks to HDR, the Saturation and Contrast sliders, you see lots of unreal sunsets. Yours shows us what really happened.

Mine is my attempt to show what really happened. I'd spent 30-minutes shooting this same sunset across a lake and got some okay shots, but the sun had gone behind the mountains and the clouds looked kind of plain and I started driving home. Luckily I rounded a corner and looked up to see this. Traffic was clear, so I pulled my car sideways in the road and shot this.

Keep trying and you'll sometimes get rewards.

Here's one of my earlier shots from this same sunset. I like it a lot, but it didn't have the unusual colors of the one we're talking about here:

Sunset On Cherry Creek Reservoir by dcstep, on Flickr
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