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Top sunrise and sunset spot in New York
Since most visitors come to New York City and refer to it as New York, I will base my answers on the assumption you mean New York City (we can be pedantic around here :) ).
Manhattan Island runs ...
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Newbie need help with sunrise photos
Your question covers several aspects; I will try to answer them here.
Your two problems are:
The Sky is missing vibrant colors
The foreground is too dark, almost black
Let's start with the first ...
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How can I improve this amateur shot of sunrise?
In low light on a phone camera with little in the way of user-adjustment, your primary objective is to keep the camera still.
Find a wall you can rest it on, & if possible use a delay timer, so ...
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Where does this yellowish shadow artefact come from?
As mentioned in comments, it's lens flare, caused by the sunlight just managing to hit the lens, even with your lens hood on. Exacerbated by the HDR process.
You might not notice it as you're taking ...
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What are the optimal settings to photograph moon/dawn/sunrise/dusk/sunset?
I just got a new camera, a Canon EOS Rebel xti
Congratulations! New gear is always exciting. ;-) Also, welcome to Photo.SE.
I am still learning what it can do.
First thing to do: Read the manual. ...
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Newbie need help with sunrise photos
I tried some manual settings bit the pics look washed out, like the sky is white but then I can see the ground in color instead of black. I'm missing the right balance of settings.
The dynamic range ...
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Balancing interior/exterior scene contrast
The simplest way to do what you want it to make HDR. Bracket several exposures with +-1 or +-2 stops then use software to combine in single image with light and dark areas exposed closest to your ...
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Balancing interior/exterior scene contrast
First of all you need to understand the concept of "dynamic range". (Maybe you do, I don't know) The dr is the ability of your camera to render as much darktones and highlights at the same time. Have ...
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Images taken in sunset at 7pm (with back toward the sun) make skin appear orange
Yes, there is a form of spectrum distortion:
At sunset the light from the sun has to pass through more atmosphere, which scatters the light, but this scattering effect is strong the higher the ...
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How to edit sunsets & sunrises to achieve a soft, peachy-pink color over the usual orange?
This answer is: Thoughts on how to shoot sunsets so you end up with the best capture of the actual colors present in the scene BEFORE you do any post production.
The best way to get the "soft, ...
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Images taken in sunset at 7pm (with back toward the sun) make skin appear orange
What you are describing is due to a complex assortment of events. First of all, at sunset and sunrise the world appears, bathed in red-orange-yellow light. At these times, sunlight must filter through ...
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How do I plan for the lighting for landscape photography?
There might be an answer to your question now. With the release of TPE 3D, you can see the shadows and lights in the 3 dimensional world.
Of course, this will not show you additional obstacles like ...
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Balancing interior/exterior scene contrast
Outside, the street is evenly illuminated by the light coming from the sun, but once that lights goes through your window it behaves as any other light point, and its intensity falls proportionally to ...
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When looking at cloud cover predictions for landscape photography, should I select my location or that of the distant mountains?
If you want the clouds to be in your photograph, check cloud coverage for where you want the clouds to be. This may be between you and the mountains, directly over the mountains, or beyond the ...
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How should I make a timelapse of the sunrise on mountains?
I live in a place where I get to see and film sunrises over the Cascade mountains, and I like to make timelapse movies of those sunrises. After a lot of experimentation I have found that setting the ...
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What are the optimal settings to photograph moon/dawn/sunrise/dusk/sunset?
The moon can be tricky since cameras will meter for the moon and all the black sky around it. This will fool the cameras lightmeter.
Since the same sun falls on the moon as on the earth, the basic ...
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