It’s looking like it may be a great sunset tonight which reminded me that I didn’t share a photo from a few nights ago.
I sat near a Cork Oak and waited until the moment the sky changed from orange to darkness and captured it with a purple haze giving a nice light. These colours within photos often look a little strange which I think is due to the fact that the sky only stays this colour for a very short time.
This afternoon, sunset was approaching and there were some high faint clouds developing along with some airplane trails, so I headed to (what I call) Eagle Ridge to look for a shot of the developing sunset.
I decided to use a nearby Cork Oak for the focal point, sitting slightly higher up the ridge than many more trees. This is also the first time I used the built-in Focus Stacking feature of the Nikon D850.
Center of the photo are the mountain tops of Picota (left) and Fóia (right).
{Click image(s) to view on Flickr - opens in new tab}Back in March, I went to take sunset and dusk shots at the fantastic Albandeira Arch. I really wasn’t happy with the results of both the photo and post-editing.
Today, I was going through some old work and once again stumbled across this session. During this year, I have approached my post work differently to achieve my results, so I adopted this new approach and had another go at editing one of the shots from this session. I am now extremely happy with this final image. It just goes to show that you should never just automatically delete photos you are not happy with, it could just be a bad day of creativity, a sort of photographers writers block.
{Click image(s) to view on Flickr - opens in new tab}Last night I ventured out just before sunset in hope the skies would turn red and I’d get a nice backdrop to our local village, São Marcos da Serra. The red sky never came, however, just in case I took some photos of the sun disappearing behind the ridge and then I waited until dusk had settled in giving a nice backlight glow.
{Click image(s) to view on Flickr - opens in new tab}After some heavy showers this afternoon, I wasn’t expecting a sunset. However, a small break in the clouds gave a very angry-looking sunset with some bright colours. I only had time to quickly grab my standby camera (My Nikon D810 with 80-400mm lens) and take this shot handheld.
{Click image(s) to view on Flickr - opens in new tab}Blink and you would have missed this stunning view this evening. As the sun started to set a few clouds rolled in and just for about 5 minutes the colours were amazing before the sun dropped below the clouds and the colours dimmed.
The first photo, I was out trying to photograph some of the Robins that have re-appeared for the winter and therefore had the wrong lens fitted, but a quick dash inside to change the lens and grab a tripod, I got the 2nd photo just before the scene faded out.
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