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Sunset Silhouettes at Cottesloe Beach
posted Sunday, 04 January 2009, 20:45 (+0800), by Martin
Last night, I met up with some friends at Cottesloe Beach, with the aim of getting some sunset photos. Despite the rather blustery sea breeze, it was a great evening, and the cloudless sky provided some interesting colours just after the sunset.

Here's a shot of the some people fishing on groyne, silhouetted against the sunset colours in the sky. This 1-second exposure was taken about 40 minutes after sunset.

sunset silhouettes at Cottesloe
sunset silhouettes at Cottesloe
Cottesloe Beach, Western Australia
Canon EOS 50D, 24-70mm f/2.8L @70mm, 1 sec, f/3.5, ISO100
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Comments:
Nick wrote at 2009-01-06 09:00

That looks pretty cool! That 1 second shutter time really allowed the light and color to come out...how did you get the people fishing to hold still for an entire second?

Martin wrote at 2009-01-06 09:04

@Nick: it's amazing how much colour you can get with a longer exposure, particularly because at times like this, the colours don't look as impressive to the native eye.

Re the people fishing, I think they were so engrossed in their fishing activity, that they were standing pretty still most of the time. I also have some shots where they're moving around, which provides some interesting results.

Shayma wrote at 2009-01-12 16:34

I love the colour of the sky, you truely captured the sunset colours in this photo, very noice :)

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