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Published: 2017-09-30 15:54:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 466; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 0
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Clouds are pretty rare in the Karoo, and made for some interesting options. As we were dishing up supper, the light suddenly went pink as the sun slipped below the clouds. This is straight out the camera - no contrast or colour tweaks. It was this vivid.The full set can be found here .
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Comments: 5
Spanish (original):
Realmente bello.
Los colores son muy bonitos, pero la forma de los árboles no combina con el hermoso cielo.
En mi opinión mas sincera, si dejaras ver un poco más los árboles, estaría mejor!
Te recomiendo mostar un 50% de árboles, 10% de suelo y 40% de cielo.
De todas formas, es un buen trabajo. Un muy buen trabajo!
English (translated by Google Translate):
Really beautiful.
The colors are very beautiful, but the shape of the trees does not match the beautiful sky.
In my most sincere opinion, if you let the trees see a little more, it would be better!
I recommend you to show 50% of trees, 10% of soil and 40% of sky.
Anyway, it's a good job. A very good job!
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Thank you for taking the time to take the time to crit this - it is really good to get an idea of how other people see an image.
The Karoo is semi-desert, and a place of contrasts. In my eye, the winter-dry trees stretching up and the sunset colours are part of the very nature of the place - both beautiful and harsh all at once.
I agree about having 'more' of everything in the shot. I took some stitched panoramas, but they didn't catch the rising line of cloud like this one did. And I was already using my widest bit of glass at 11mm!
Thanks again for your kind words.
(and is that a 'straight' Google translate, or did you tweak it a bit? It seems too good!)
Grant H
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I've seen those intense colours several times in parts of KZN, on game reserves mostly. I think the intensity and vividness comes from there being very little dust in the atmosphere and very little light pollution from other sources.
David
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That would make sense. We stay about 500m from Table Bay, and sometimes the sun sets under a thin layer of cloud, and you get stunning sunsets, with the sun over the Atlantic - which has neither dust nor light for another 5000 km!
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Yep - the lack of pollution has to be in the upper atmosphere.
David
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