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Morro Bay Through Railing
Featured in PhotoFlash #018
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Frank P. Luongo
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member since: 6/7/2004
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Great Shot!
Another beautiful sunset silhouetting ... an interesting foreground.
Love the silhouetted linear patterns.
8/16/2004 3:59:19 PM
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Kerry Drager
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Hi Frank: Thanks so much for your message ... I really appreciate it!
Kerry
P.S. For anyone interested in the "story" behind the making of this photograph:On Sunsets, Sunstars, and Silhouettes
Like many of my sunset shots, this image was "planned" during the flat, overhead, uninteresting sunlight of midday. That's when I found this scene and imagined what it might look like in the beautiful light of late day. As for the "special effects": Sunstar (sunburst): To achieve a sunstar, I carefully composed the scene so just a piece of the sun peeked out, and I set my lens for a small aperture (high f/stop number). More thoughts: No filter was used, since the extra glass can cause extra sun spots on the final image. Incidentally, there was an important side benefit of the small aperture: A deep depth of field (sharpness from the close foreground frame to the distant background).Silhouette: To ensure that the shadowed railing came out black and the distant scene turned out nice and colorful, I took a substitute meter reading on a middle part of the sky (not the brightest area, not the darkest). I then re-composed and fired away using those settings. More thoughts: Since the sunburst/deep DOF was a priority, I set the f/stop first (which can be done in either in Aperture Priority or Manual mode) before taking the alternate reading.
8/22/2004 11:34:09 AM
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Davy Davis
member since: 11/17/2005
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Looks like Morro Rock to me.
Davy
2/2/2006 7:12:33 AM
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Kerry Drager
KerryDrager.com
Kerry's Photo Courses:
Creative Light and Composition
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Hi Davy,
Hey, nice hearing from you outside of class!! :-) Thanks for your guess! I'll be checking back here in a few days to see how things are going ... then, in a few days after that, I'll let everyone know who's right ... and, hmmmm, who's wrong :-)
Thanks again, Davy ...
Kerry
2/2/2006 8:02:39 AM
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Marcia A. Fasy
member since: 3/27/2005
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I knew instantly it was Morro Bay. My daughter lives there!Very nice sunset. It seems I am always there the wrong time of the year to get good sunsets.
Marcia
2/2/2006 10:34:46 AM
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Betty A. Wisse
bettywisse.com
member since: 3/6/2004
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I thought it was Maiu, Hawaii, I have a picture of what I thought was that rock.
Betty
2/2/2006 12:48:44 PM
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jean ray
member since: 2/22/2004
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I instantly recognized Morro Rock and knew this was Morro Bay, a favorite place I have visited many times in my life.
2/2/2006 7:22:35 PM
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Kerry Drager
KerryDrager.com
Kerry's Photo Courses:
Creative Light and Composition
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Hi everyone,
Yes, indeed, it's Morro Rock (Morro Bay along the central California Coast). Thanks for your responses!
Kerry
2/28/2006 2:44:11 PM
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