So, here's tonight's sunset:
It was just spectacular.
OK, since I've got you here..
So, I'm new at this photography thing. I shot like 100 images tonight, and I've pored over them, trying to select "the one." I really like the wide-angle, above. But my runners-up, below, are also, in my opinion, keepers.
Which would have been your choice? Let me know in the comments.-S
5 comments:
The last one does it for me , but all three are winners and my guess is all three will be picked by folks one at a time. You are getting good. The last one because I love the composition and the light reflection off the boat. Plus it is gorgeous.
leather diva said...
Dude - SO the last one. It's the sun shining on the water between the sailboats that does it for me. I feel like I was just there. Oh wait - I was! Hey - is there still a sailboat stuck on the reef off in front of the Princeville Hotel?
It is a matter of apples and oranges. The first gives a sense of "here". The photo brings one into a felt sense of current time and space as contrasted with distant setting sun. Where the sun is beyond reach, unattainable. The ambiance is of the beach and by the beach. The second has a sense of mystery, the unknown in the foreground, dark and unsolved against the known, the clean vast orange/yellow void of distant space. The third has the power of the sun piercing the present and it's intensity burning away the immediate drawing you irresistibly unto itself. Well, you asked.
The first one because you can see the WHOLE sky etc. Wendy
m/diva - yes, the boat is still stranded out there.
carl, you're a goddamn poet. a cynical poet. wtf.
jim grant - the third one is getting the most votes by phone, email and comments. I like it too, make no mistake, but I placed them in order of my personal preference - but that's now changed, too. I think I like the second (slow shutter, close up, sharp subject/soft water) best. but as carl the poet said, they're each quite different - not three versions of the same shot at all, despite the fact that the tripod never moved.
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