After the sun goes down and before the blue hour -- i.e. twilight -- there is an in-between time period when the sky often takes on a mauve color hue. This pinkish color is exquisite, and it can be enhanced in Photoshop beautifully. Don't go too far, though, or you enter the realm is surrealism. This is the walled city of Dubrovnik, Croatia, and I waited until the artificial lights mixed with the cobalt and mauve color to make the shot. This is a 30 second exposure at f/22 and 100 ISO. I used a 24-105mm lens for the picture.
7 Comments
May 12, 2016, 1:08:36 AM
Jim - Ian, I removed the dust spot as I should have done when I first posted it.
May 11, 2016, 3:30:39 PM
Jim - Ian, The distracting dot is a dust spot on the sensor that I forgot to remove. I was tired when I uploaded it and I missed it. It definitely should have been removed.
May 11, 2016, 2:40:10 PM
Ian - Hi Jim, I assume the distracting dot in the sky is a bird? personally I would have removed it, is there any particular reason you have left it in?
May 10, 2016, 11:30:09 AM
Jim Zuckerman - Hi Stan, When the lens is focused to infinity and everything is far away (beyond what I'm calling optical infinity), you can use any lens aperture and the results will be identical. In other words, f/5 and f/16 will give you the identical picture.
Jim
May 10, 2016, 7:42:02 AM
Stan Greenberg - Jim;
In your previous blog on OPTICAL INFINITY, you used f/5 aperture to get DOF.
Could you have used a larger f/stop here at optical infinity to get same result?
May 10, 2016, 2:25:50 AM
Jim - Hi Bob, Thank you for the compliment. Yes, the flag was really blowing this evening. In Photoshop, I used Image > adjustments > color balance to add the mauve color.
May 10, 2016, 12:13:43 AM
Bob Vestal - This is stunning, Jim. Must have been some breeze, so flag shows motion. Clues regarding what you did in Photoshop?