Dark Sunsets

[Nigell]

Walking home from work, I put on 2 yes 2 ND9s and started to take some twilight images. Best viewed by clicking the images, C&C most welcome.

To annoy everyone with some darky goodness.


A little lighter but still dark.


OMG you can almost see it.

[dawesy]

I really like #2, can't say why though.

Normally I wouldn't say that much negative space would work, but I like the graduation of colour into the sunset. I also really like the way everything on land is silhouetted and the falloff left to right. That sounds like I can say why I like it really doesn't it?

[camrak]

Too dark for me ... so in another language, photos are underexposed without any reason, so Try again

[Nigell]

An interesting response. When I shot these it was with the express purpose of correctly exposing darkness to the extent that you couldn't just look at them and see everything. In much the same way as you need to let you eyes become accustomed to the darkness in order to see through it. The idea was to stay with the images longer to mimic that expirence. I do not thing any of them are underexposed at all. Just different from what you expect. In much the same why that High Key images aren't overexposed, It is a study of light, shadow and darkness.

[camrak]

Low key and hi Key working well with portarait and not neccesary with landscape, but how you say - this is a artistic vision so if this was your intence, everything working well

[big pix]

I like the mood that these images portray........ nice work

[potato1]

Hi Nigell, you got some really interesting results there, its always good to experiment never know what you might come away with. I like the second one a lot with all the fine but recognisable details along the coast. I was wondering though, in terms of getting the darker result could you have simply jsut underexposed, or where you going for longer exposures as well? Either way some fine work