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Sunset in the Maritimes

NIKON D7100

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Aperture f/5.6 ISO 400 Shutter 1/2000 Focal Length 140/1

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Apr, 2015

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Animaritimes Fredericton NB Canada. Celebrating Anime!

I was doing a pet portrait shoot for my friends dog, and this little devil kept giving me the stink eye!

Behind The Lens

Location

This Photo was taken in my backyard, gazing across a marsh that divides me and the city that I grew up in. We are getting some amazing sunsets here in Eastern Canada and although I am certainly a newbie with my camera, I love to capture the obvious beauty that nature sometimes just hands us.

Time

I took this picture about 3/4 of the way through the setting sun. I was overwhelmed with the complete color saturation I must have shot close to 100 pictures on this particular night. This photo has gotten some amazing feedback for me, and there has not been a night go by ( whether camera is in hand or not) that I don't keep an eye out my window to see if nature will be able to match the beauty that we had on this day

Lighting

I did not use a thing as far as lighting in the photo. It was sunset and mother nature provided me with everything I needed except for the camera.

Equipment

I used my Nikon D7100 for this picture with an AF-S Nikkor 18-140DX VR lens at a F5.6 setting and 1/2000 speed with ISO set at 400.

Inspiration

As the sun began to set, it was very clear to me that the merging colors were really bringing out the artist fuzzy belly in me! In my mind I had a vision of Disney's The Lion King with a feel of a safari sunset burning in front of me. I really just wanted to make the photo feel as though I was in the depth of nature when in fact if I would have panned a little more to the right, you would have seen the outskirts of the city, industrializing the raw nature out of it! I wanted you all to see what I was seeing it in front of my eyes without knowing I wasn't quite as deep into nature as I led you to believe.

Editing

I am new to this wonderful world of expression by way of camera, and I ( probably foolishly) really want to create a photo as best I can before I take it home. (Although I am a JPEG user, because of my lack of processing know how!) I try my best to see through my viewfinder, by eliminating and unwanted junk in the picture, whether I move myself or the unsightly things out of the shot. I prefer to use patience instead of processing if I can. That being said, I think my head is on crooked, because try as I might, things are rarely straight in my pics! I know that I did crop and straighten this photo, but believe me, mother nature was the artist, not so much myself! No other processing was used

In my camera bag

I don't have too much for equipment as of yet so it all fits nicely into my bag at this point. I suppose the more that I buy, the more I'll appreciate not having to make decisions like that! I have a Nikon D7100 body and two lenses. The one used in this pic, the Nikkor 18-140DX VR, is almost always on my camera, as I'm constantly looking at landscapes and oceans, across fields and rivers. I also carry a Nikkor 70-300 which gives me a little more pull toward subject matter in my other pics. I also have a lens hood and buffer that usually takes up room as I'll openly say I get stuck in the same mode of interest and frankly don't take the time to think of what equipment to use when. I just keep shooting! List of things to do is hang out with more mentors as much as possible, and feed off of their knowledge! Professionals beware!

Feedback

I always take the best photos when I've committed to play with my camera for a few hours, or easily settle into the moment to allow the time it takes to capture a great image. The most important thing to me is to have patience. Don't rush to get back to the car. Don't try to go out to create when you've got to go to your day job or pick up the kids. I am more relaxed and my creative self comes to play if I allow the proper time for it. Another thing that is almost as important to do, for me, is to constantly be aware of my surroundings in my day to day. I keep my eyes open for the spaces and detail within spaces that would make great subject matter. Kind of a pre scouting frame of mind. Anything from an interesting turn in a country road, a beautiful piece of iron work on a familiar bench, to a mental note of scenery from a sunrise of sunset point of view. This keeps me excited to grab my bag and get to that location asap to have some fun!

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