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[M_Six]

Thanks, Steve. I knew when I left the house that morning that the light would be dramatic. Clearing skies usually are.

Pat, great shot, but I think I'd lose or at least reduce the vignetting. It would work with a B&W shot, but not so much with the color. Just MHO, of course.

[conropl]

... I think I'd lose or at least reduce the vignetting. It would work with a B&W shot, but not so much with the color. Just MHO, of course.

I agree on the vignetting. I am not sure what happens when I post to Flickr, but the vignetting seems much harsher in flickr than in LR. I used the vignnetting because there was just to much gray in the upper part of the sky and the water forground. All that gray seemed to over power the color of the sky and lighthouse. The vignetting seemed to make the sky colors and lighthouse more of the focus, but in the end it turned out a bit to much.

As for the B&W, I do not know... I will have to try it, but then I loose the color of the sunset. I will check it out and see.

Pat

[M_Six]

You could use the gray to your advantage. I think the gray makes a nice color contrast scene with the yellow sunset. David duChemin covers this in his book, Photographically Speaking. Make one aspect of your image stand out by emphasizing a contrasting aspect. The colors in your image would literally bark at you if the rest of the image was more drab. I don't like selective color images, but in your case maybe subtly de-saturating the gray just a bit would make the reds and yellows really pop.