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The Beginning of the End of the Day
The Beginning of the End of the Day
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Challenge: The Beginning of the End (Advanced Editing V)
Collection: Challenge Entries
Camera: Pentax K100D
Lens: Tamron AF 18-250mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Pentax
Location: San Francisco Bay
Date: Oct 27, 2007
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/4000
Galleries: Sky, Transportation
Date Uploaded: Oct 27, 2007

 Sunset pictures never do well around here, so I don't have great hopes for this image, but I like it so what the heck, I'll give it a shot.

I could have also titled this: The Beginning of the End of the Continent!

Taken from the deck of the ferry on the San Francisco to Vallejo run at 6:09 p.m. Nice way to commute, eh? Had my camera with me, because I was shooting for the ground up challenge that day, so went out and grabbed some shots of Alcatraz, the Golden Gate Bridge and the Marin headlands. I figured this shot would be pretty recognizable as the Golden Gate Bridge, from a slightly different perspective than it is normally seen. Shot this at 78mm, just before the boat was about even with Angel Island.

This shot was underexposed a couple stops to avoid totally blowing the sun, and the original picture had a golden brown cast to it. I cranked the saturation up and backed off the hue a bit to bring out the reddish color.

Statistics
Place: 24 out of 137
Avg (all users): 6.0942
Avg (commenters): 7.6667
Avg (participants): 6.1296
Avg (non-participants): 6.0714
Views since voting: 1290
Views during voting: 232
Votes: 138
Comments: 8
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 11/05/2007 06:18:43 AM
Very beautiful shot Dennis!!
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 11/05/2007 04:03:21 AM
lol well I'd say your sunset picture did pretty well! Love the rich orange-red sky and how you carried that tone in the water as well. A very striking photo...
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/30/2007 09:59:32 AM
Beautiful colors and tones in this.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/30/2007 01:49:37 AM
This is a lovely image. Colour is beautiful.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/29/2007 04:14:26 PM
I knew there would be a lot of sunset shots in this, but this stands out. A "Wow" picture.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/29/2007 08:52:10 AM
Great colors and like the reflection on the waves. psart 7
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 10/29/2007 04:47:59 AM
Lovely sunset
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 10/28/2007 10:36:50 PM
Very well captured, one of the more powerful sunsets in this challenge.
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