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Helipad and Hill at Sundown
Although I have taken a number of captures of the Helipad near the hospital I don't recall ever posting a photo of it, so I chose this one to post. Hillside Park is seen in the background, but this image was not really about the land, but is about the sky.
I had been taking pictures at the park under some really great golden hour light, and when the light was no longer on the park I started heading home. Walking past the helipad I noticed that some really nice colours had formed in the sky so I took this shot.
It really is amazing how quickly the light changes. "Golden Hour" should really be termed as "Golden Minutes". This is looking to the East, and the setting sun was likely just dipping below the horizon in the west. I am not sure if this would technically be called the blue hour or not. While the land looks uninspiring, the sky sure looked great. I tried to process so that detail in the land looked approximately as I remember it, beginning to get dark without much contrast or saturation.
After processing so many images in my lifetime, I still find images with such great variances of brightness hard to process to get a balance that approximates what I saw with the limited brightness values of a digital capture. I guess I have to accept that some images will always be a compromise.
Helipad and Hill at Sundown
Although I have taken a number of captures of the Helipad near the hospital I don't recall ever posting a photo of it, so I chose this one to post. Hillside Park is seen in the background, but this image was not really about the land, but is about the sky.
I had been taking pictures at the park under some really great golden hour light, and when the light was no longer on the park I started heading home. Walking past the helipad I noticed that some really nice colours had formed in the sky so I took this shot.
It really is amazing how quickly the light changes. "Golden Hour" should really be termed as "Golden Minutes". This is looking to the East, and the setting sun was likely just dipping below the horizon in the west. I am not sure if this would technically be called the blue hour or not. While the land looks uninspiring, the sky sure looked great. I tried to process so that detail in the land looked approximately as I remember it, beginning to get dark without much contrast or saturation.
After processing so many images in my lifetime, I still find images with such great variances of brightness hard to process to get a balance that approximates what I saw with the limited brightness values of a digital capture. I guess I have to accept that some images will always be a compromise.