I went on a family vacation during during break.  There was a pretty nice sunset.   I thought that sunsets were almost too predictable to photograph so I would just kick back and enjoy it.

Then, I decided to take some photos – kind of just goofing around.  There were some low lying clouds, kind of near the horizon. This made it a little easier to capture the scene without having the glare of the sun to deal with.  It still had the warm glow that I like. I am still using the colored filters on my lenses that make the contrast of the sky so much more dramatic.  Anyway, here it is – I am pretty happy with it.

Pismo at Dusk

It was a good summer and fall for me.  After thinking about, then studying, then finally acquiring…  I got some filters for my camera lenses.  These filters change the colors that the camera sees, and our crucial to having dynamic and interesting black and white photographs.  Previously, I was underwhelmed by my nature photographs because visually colorful and dynamic scenes just seemed flat.  No amount of changes were fixing it.

Without a filter, red and green map to the same shade of grey in black and white.  This is clearly not acceptable.  After I tried the filters, I was like “Oh, this is what Ansel Adams did!”

I feel like I now have the keys to the city and I can go forward and create all kinds of interesting compositions.

Hooray for the old school.