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Sunsets
December 09, 2007Everybody loves a good sunset photo.
You have about 20-30 minutes every day to get a sunset shot provided the cloud conditions.
Here are three of my faves of the year.
Jason Palmer/Times Record News
Several Midwestern State soccer players are silhouetted against the setting sun on Orange Beach, Alabama.
This was from my recent trip to Orange Beach, Alabama with the MSU soccer team. The beach was only about 200 yards from my condo door and it was one of the prettiest sunsets I'd see all year long.
There was no question that this was going to be a fave. of mine. I was hanging out down there with a handful of the team and we were just kinda goofing off and taking a couple of group pictures. All the while, I was ready to get a journalism shot for the paper. An outtake from the group shots or just something pretty.
It was a fun trip and I would love to go back down there on vacation one of these days.
Jason Palmer/Times Record News
The twilight sky shines behind the Ruby N. Priddy Butterfly Conservatory at the River Bend Nature Center.
For the most part... sunsets with nothing in the sky aren't that pretty compared to partly cloudy ones. The trick is to get something in the foreground that takes advantage of the darkening twilight sky.
A mirrored building works well (like in downtown Dallas)... or in this case, a building that you can see through.
The new butterfly conservatory works well for that exact thing. This was shot before Halloween during their costume party as the sun had fallen well beyond the horizon line, but there was still enough light to make a good photo. It helps that the building was lit up from the inside, and that just kinda adds to the beauty of the shot.
I should probably make a big print of this one and donate it to River Bend.... I'll have to get on that one.
Jason Palmer/Photographer
Distant thunderstorm clouds paint a colorful sunset behind the slides at Castaway Cove Waterpark Monday evening. Storms moved through the area in late afternoon cooling temperatures to the mid-70s in the evening hours.
This was from July 23, 2007 on an evening of thunderstorms in the area. I could see the sunset starting to fill the sky with color and happened to be near Castaway Cove. I knew this would make a good subject for a sunset shot (I've done the same thing a few years earlier). It was just a matter of waiting for the right colors in the sky.
This is also the type of shot that never quite looks as good on the newspaper as it does on the computer screen. Even though we've won awards for our color reproduction in the print editions, there is nothing like the brilliant color of an LCD screen.
I had nearly forgotten about this shot. I'm not sure how many I have turned in to the newspaper this year (That'll be something for another blog) but this one nearly slipped through the cracks. I'm glad I found it though.
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