Close of the Day by TwoPynts

Photography • Atmosphere/Mood • posted on Jul 22, 2005

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"Only in the fading light do colors fully reveal themselves, colors hidden in the bright of day."

Since clouds seem popular right now, I thought I'd close out the work week with another dramatic sky photo. This sunset shot was taken last Saturday in The Villages, FL, just north of Wildwood (mentioned in yesterday's comments). While the unadjusted shot was dramatic, I did enhance it a bit in Photoshop using a technique I recently learned. You can view a wider angle photo of this sunset and read my tutorial for this technique HERE. I also darkened the photo by duplicating the background layer, changing the layer from Normal to Multiply in the Layers pallete, adjusting it's opacity and then flattening the image again. I hope everyone had a good week and I wish everyone a wonderful weekend! Thank you for stopping by and for your comments on yesterday's image, Greener Pastures.

----- Olympus C8080 & PhotoshopCS.

Comments (36)

kastakan

12:41PM | Fri, 22 July 2005

Dramatic! Very impressive. Kastakan

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Valentin

12:41PM | Fri, 22 July 2005

Stunning sky in a wanderful landscape full of power!!! Excellent compo!!!

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diomedes66

12:48PM | Fri, 22 July 2005

A magical sky, dramatic and full of wonder! Well done indeed!

patmartj

12:53PM | Fri, 22 July 2005

A truely Beautiful image! Thank you

Tedz

12:59PM | Fri, 22 July 2005

A fine Image...Goodnight Daytime :]

cynlee

1:02PM | Fri, 22 July 2005

gorgeous colors Kort! & thank you for the tut! be great to have it in the Resource Center too... I'll get with Doug & point him over here, see what we can do :]

AnneCHPostma

1:12PM | Fri, 22 July 2005

Wonderful .. great inspirational photo !

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killerpumpkins

1:21PM | Fri, 22 July 2005

Thats about a years worth of sky out here in California. Great stuff! KP

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Zacko

1:22PM | Fri, 22 July 2005

SWEET JESUS!!! Will you look at the highlights of those clouds. This is truly a perfect compo with those black silhouettes in the foreground like that. Yup, amazings the word!!! Have a great weekend Kort #:O)

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sharky_

1:27PM | Fri, 22 July 2005

Beautiful Job Kort. I like the setting. Aloha

BorisB

2:07PM | Fri, 22 July 2005

My God, I have never seen such a crazy and gorgeous sky!!!!

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Damia

2:08PM | Fri, 22 July 2005

Wow! Gorgeous sky! So perfect and wonderful. Amazing! I'm going to go read that tut now. :)

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tibet2004uk

2:28PM | Fri, 22 July 2005

Oh man!! What a sight!!! This is totally gorgeous Kortalouche!!! A dream, a 'lil piece of paradise!!! Thx for sharing so much beauty! :)

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Digimon

3:46PM | Fri, 22 July 2005

Wonderful sky! My focus is drawn to an unusal (Shadow?) near the center of the image, in the clouds...very strange! The colors are fabulous!! Much as I would expect they looked to you when you took the image. Excellent work!

TheSecond

4:18PM | Fri, 22 July 2005

Wow, what a sunset. Superbly catched with the plants in the foreground, I love it, also that firey hole in the clouds ... when seeing such pictures, I always come close to understand why people need to imagine somebody in heaven to creat such beauty. It is sometimes hard to believe that it is only nature and not some creator. Well, it can be only nature forming such beauty ... Excellent!!!

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jcv2

5:09PM | Fri, 22 July 2005

Ah, you emphasize the red channel and then the golden colors get deeper! Fantastic work, Kort! Great to add to article here! It makes it all more dramatic! Fuji stuff is great but for me it's usually the Sensia line :)

forsonic

6:38PM | Fri, 22 July 2005

I love the colors. I'd like to compare the untouched image to see just how much this pic is changed. great job.

logiloglu

7:15PM | Fri, 22 July 2005

wow, i have no words. a fantastic colours palette of this sky. awesome shot,Kort. top notch #:O)

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Margana

8:35PM | Fri, 22 July 2005

Simply fabulous Kortalouche!The colors,the light,the compo,...all perfect.Love this exquisite sunset.A feast for the eyes... :)

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rayburg

8:49PM | Fri, 22 July 2005

Love those fl. sunsets. Nice framing with the trees.

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Agny

8:55PM | Fri, 22 July 2005

woOow... great

parb1194

9:45PM | Fri, 22 July 2005

Fantastic clouds and color. Accolades!!!!

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hotracer2

10:36PM | Fri, 22 July 2005

What a stunning array of lighting and clouds with the silouette of the trees..fantastic image:):):):):):)

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nikolais

1:27AM | Sat, 23 July 2005

really stunning and picturesque

pimbotin

2:46AM | Sat, 23 July 2005

I don't know who wrote this sentence (the bold one) but I totally agree with it... And your picture illustrates it perfectly. Thanks also for the tutorial!

gwfa

4:34AM | Sat, 23 July 2005

beautiful capture - and thanks for the tutorial to simulate Velvia - one reason why I like the Fujifilm S3 pro is that you simply choose Film Simulation=F2 and you get the same effect...

Egmont

8:38AM | Sat, 23 July 2005

Wow, Kort. Just checked out the tutorial which is somethig I am going to have to try. Thank you. And another wonderful cloud picture! I just keep marveling at all this beauti since our clouds are non existant. Have great weekend.

soulofharmony

11:25AM | Sat, 23 July 2005

wowwwwwwwwwww absolutely soft and dreamy awesome p'graphy:)..)))))))

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Punaguy

11:31AM | Sat, 23 July 2005

Dramatic effect with the PW, although mother nature does a great job on her own most of the time. Sunsets/sunrise are my favorite times to shoot because of the deep vibrant colors as seen in this image...Nice work Kort~ Have an excellent weekend~ Aloha~

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