Sunset Moorings #1
This beautiful river scene sunset was photographed from the south bank of the Hastings River at the Boundary Street Ferry Wharf in Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia , on a mid-winter’s day.
Milady Fuji was sitting high and proud on her tripod, with the White Balance set to Sunny due to the glare from the sky and nearest boat, the ISO to 100 for the good Image Quality and to minimise Noise, and with Spot Metering, Centre Focussing, Continuous Focus and Fast Shooting settings completing the set-up.
I chose the 1/500sec Shutter Speed in Shutter Priority as I had some previous success using this setting on some sunset shots and found it helps control the Exposure very well in these conditions as well as freezing any motion quite well.
(Fortunately it froze the flying Pelican. Can you spot him?) :)
After an earlier test shot under the same conditions and a check of the Histogram, I found I did not need any Exposure Compensation.
After I set the Timer to 2 seconds, I pre-focussed on the brightest area on the nearest boat, framed the shot, locked the tripod, squeezed the trigger and after the “Beep! Beep! Beeeeep! Kachunk!” … here it is!
Visit the Sunrise-Sunset collection in my BubbleSite Gallery for more delightful sunset scenes.
UPDATE: December 2007
A buyer with impeccable taste has bought a card!
UPDATE: 15-12-09
BIG news! A framed 60cm x 100cm (24”x40”) B&W print of my Hastings River sunset has been sold as part of a collection of 16 of my Port Macquarie photographs to be displayed permanently in the Coast Apartments complex.
UPDATE: 18-12-09
My river sunset has been FEATURED in the Beach, River and Lake Treasures Group.
Enjoy!
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Sunset Moorings #1
