“日落西山雲海觀 日落西山云海观 Sunset Cloudscape” #landscape / 寧 Serenity / SML.20130121.7D.20684.C23.P1

Landscape photographers know that sunsets and sunrises are the best time for photography. The sun’s brightness is greatly diminished when at the horizon. At a relatively lower altitude, the clouds are rendered in a golden shade of off-white, thus balancing the overall color composition.

 

 

 

 

Human’s color vision is governed by two axis: Green ←→ Magenta and Blue ←→ Yellow [1], which is precisely why working in Photoshop’s Lab color space [2] has an advantage as you are balancing the what humans see and not what the monitor represents (which is RGB).

 

 

 

 

Pictured: The amazing cloudscape at sunset above 香港中文大學 The Chinese University of Hong Kong [3].

 

 

 

 

# SML Translate

+ 日: sun

+ 落: down, falling down, coming down

+ 日落: sunset

+ 西: west, western

+ 山: mountain

+ 日落西山: the sun sets at the mountain to the West

+ 雲: cloud

+ 海: sea

+ 觀: view, observation

+ 日落西山雲海觀: the sun sets at the mountain to the West while we observe the beautiful scenery of the sea of clouds.

 

 

 

 

# Notes

1. The color opponent process is a color theory that states that the human visual system interprets information about color by processing signals from cones and rods in an antagonistic manner.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opponent_process

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_vision

 

 

 

 

2. A Lab color space is a color-opponent space with dimension L for lightness and a and b for the color-opponent dimensions, based on nonlinearly compressed CIE XYZ color space coordinates.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lab_color_space

 

 

 

 

3. 香港中文大學 The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Abbreviation: CUHK or The Chinese University) is the second oldest university in Hong Kong. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_University_of_Hong_Kong

 

 

 

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-01-21 17:21:02 GMT+0800

+ Dimensions: 3154 x 4731

+ Exposure: 1/500 sec at f/8.0

+ Focal Length: 24 mm

+ ISO: 100

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D

+ Lens: Canon EF 24-70 f/2.8L

+ GPS: 22°25'9" N 114°13'25" E (SML Universe HKG)

+ Series: 寧 Serenity

 

 

 

 

# SML Workflow

Photographed with Canon 7D, processed in Lab mode in Photoshop CS6, noise reduction in Lightroom 4.

 

 

 

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

 

 

 

“日落西山雲海觀 日落西山云海观 Sunset Cloudscape” / 寧 Serenity / SML.20130121.7D.20684.C23.P1

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