A Beautiful Sunset

Photo of the Day

A couple of nights ago I noticed that the sky in our back yard was lit up. This is the opposite direction of the sunset so I knew that something awesome had to be happening out our front windows. I looked out, and sure enough it was a gorgeous sunset. I grabbed my camera to make a couple of pictures of it. My 5 year old step-daughter grabbed hers too. Mine is a 5D Mark III and hers is a Fisher Price. We both took pictures of the sunset, and then compared them. We had a great time making the pictures together, and once again photography has brought us a bit closer.

Technical Data

For my picture most of the work was done in camera. I didn’t want the tops of the neighbors houses to show up in the photo so I underexposed to black out the trees and house tops. That left me with the sky properly exposed. In Lightroom 5 I pumped up the vibrance a bit, and I adjusted the blacks. That was the extent of the work on this photo. For my step-daughters photo I really could not do much to it. It is such a low resolution file that not much could be done to it. It is pretty good as shot though. Below is that photo that she took.