Any good sunrise photos out there?
 

I live in a city in southwest Florida (Cape Coral) that has more canals in it than Venice, Italy. We have some of the most incredible sunrises one can imagine. :-)

How about you?

http://www.tropicdiver.com/thesunrise.jpg

holf f'n s that is beauityful. thats it, i'm moving to flordia!

Wow! Great shot. Sunrise is always a beautiful time of day for saturated colors. You caught them perfectly. Nice.

I'll be in Fort Myers again the first week of November. I always make it a habit while I'm there to be on the beach at least for sunset. Love to be out for sunrise, but too many sunset Coronas usually prevent it! :D

I have nothing that can beat that where I live. But if I ever get up early enough, I'll get one. Great picture btw.

very nice picture

I've nothing to compare with your sunrise pic. I'm still trying to figure out the subtleties of low light photo taking. I really like the way the textures in the clouds show up at sunrise, though.
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My best Sunset so far, I need to take much more though because this was before I knew about not running the horizon through the middle.

How much mega pixels do y'all have? I am shooting with a Nikon 5700 with 5.0 MP's. The biggest thing I've found with low lite is turning off the auto focus (I set mine on Infinity and that shuts down the auto focus) and then if you aren't using a tripod, hold the camera as steady as possible to keep from losing a sharp focus, which is really tough to do at 1/4 of a second.

PJ, drop me a line when you come to Ft. Myers (I'll be in Key West in mid November). You can get some great sunset shots on Ft. Myers Beach, too, like the one below. The sky looked like it was on fire.

http://www.tropicdiver.com/perfectsunsetpier.jpg

I'll try turning off the auto focus. I assumed that since I was focusing on infinity, that the camera was setting the focus to infinity. I'm using a 5 Mp Sony F717. I'm still exploring the manual settings. The EV compensation and auto-bracketing is really nice, but I don't quite have the hang of getting the right settings to start with in low light. Heck, I'm only just starting to get the hang of it in normal light. :p

The best thing I did to learn my camera was to take a very long plane flight and READ THE MANUAL instead of looking out the window, but from time to time, I couldn't help myself, and I looked out the window, too. ;-)

http://www.tropicdiver.com/washingtonstate.jpg

Seriously, the Nikon 5700 manual is very thick and I just sat and forced myself to read the whole thing with my camera out during a 5 hour flight from Florida to Seattle. It helped LOADS.

Whoah, tropicdiver, that's an amazing shot. I don't suppose you would be willing to link to a full size version, would you?

Wow, great shot td. I'll tell ya, one of the best I've ever seen from the window of a plane. Nikon obviously makes some good gear, but you have got the eye to use it!

Not only one of the best airborne shots of Mt. Rainier I've seen in a long time, but a great job of resizing it for the web. I've noticed that it's really hard to get a good rescale of a pic with the kinds of sharp angles like there are in the airplane wing. You did a good job of keeping the jaggies out. Do you have a particular photoshop process that you can share?

Hey, thanks guys. I just put the camera on infinity and pointed and pushed the button. Hope you'll settle for a 1600 X 1000 photo (I have a 100MB limit by my ISP and I'm close to it). I'll take down the link in a couple days.

http://www.tropicdiver.com/bigrainier.jpg

No special Photo Shop tricks. Actually, I have both Photo Shop 7.0 and Paint Shop Pro 7.0 and I mostly use my PSP, as it loads quicker and I've been using it for so long it is kinda' second nature to me. The only thing I usually do with my photos is crop, re-size and the unsharp mask.

those sunrises are some beautiful photos!

There is a mile wide river that separates Fort Myers and Cape Coral. It is called the Caloosahatchee. I took this photo standing on the pier at the Cape Coral Yacht Basin at sunset.

http://www.tropicdiver.com/cominghome.jpg

great shots tropicdiver

Holy shite, TP...those photos are amazing! The burning sky at Ft. Myers looks unbelievable...no seriously, that didn't happen, right? :p j/k

Sorry, but I had to do it.

Tonite was a good nite for sunsets in southwest Florida. People who say Key West is the place to go to see incredible sunsets, have obviously never hung out around Ft. Myers Beach or Sanibel / Captiva Island. This evening we were having our typical late afternoon storms and I was in the mood to drive down to the beach and see what kind of sunset was happening. Tonite was a keeper! :-)

My apologies to you dialup folks in advance. ;-)

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Hey TD. Been out on the island a few times and I'm coming back the first week of November. You're right about those sunsets, they have to be seen to be believed. Here's one from the first time I visited. (couldn't find the bird the second time around)

PJ, I think I've seen the same Great Heron you shot in that great photo of yours, but only during the day. ;-)

http://www.tropicdiver.com/bigbird.jpg:)

awesome shots tropicdiver!

beautiful colors & compositions.

I've got one totally oposite of all yours. I took this one with some buddies last winter out ice fishing. Have to get out on the ice early you know!!

http://www.photobucket.com/albums/08...k/78ebe65d.jpg

Damn, i wanna take to Cape Coral..

I live in denmark, there we doesn't have such beautiful sunsets... :(

Wish it was me that lived there..

In my mind, im already planning a trip with my girlfriend - i have had one though :(

We have a bit of a problem where I live, There are lots of tall buildings around, so I can't get a good picture of a sunset/sunrise. Any tips?

Any good sunrise photos out there?
 

Uhhhhh...... drive somewhere that the buildings don't block your view of the sunset? ;-)

Climb the building. How do I put up my pics the easiest? There is some pretty strong work in that set!!!

I took these last month in northern Ontario, Canada, with a 10 year old digital camera who's battery was almost dead as the sun set. Got about 4 seconds to snap each photo before the camera shut itself off each time.

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That last picture = win.

Great shots

wow... amazing shots

simply amazing

Some really great shots here. I don't have any good sun rise shots. Way too early for me.

The last couple of evenings, we've been getting hammered by some really serious afternoon Summer thunderstorms. I decided to head out to the Cape Coral Yacht Basin Pier and see if there was going to be much of a sunset with the clouds all about. It was nothing to really get excited about, but being out in the tropical warmth with a gentle rain falling was rather nice this evening. :-)

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/applaud tropicdiver

Great colors and composition.

Nice last one.

Saw this and instantly thought of -

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Great photos. I might have to visit Florida some day.

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You know it is just hard to beat a good sunrise or sunset. Can you imagine hoping in a boat and going fishing at sunrise and that was your job? This lucky SOB in the photo does it...

Just amazing Tropic.
I hear the sands of the Sahara desert are part of the cause of those beautiful sunsets.

Heres a sunset I took about a year ago.
Could use for photoshopping to lighten up the mountain area a bit.

Wow. I really the lighting here was that stunning. Mornings here are usually quite bland. Really great photos, tropicdiver. The color is amazing!

wow - where the heck have I been that I missed this thread?! Some INCREDIBLE shots you've got! You should try to sell some to travel agencies to use in tourism brochures for Florida :)

Thanks for everyone's kind comments and the photos that they have shared, also. Someone sip a beer for me, as I'm driving into the jaws of minimal Tropical Storm Henri this morning on my way to a convention in Tampa. Looking at the radar, it is raining more, here, than it is up there. Here's another sunrise photo. Doesn't look like I will see any for the next day or two. ;-)

http://www.tropicdiver.com/colorfulsunrise7.jpg

Here's a sunrise from Bokeelia on north end of Pine Island. Great place to view the sunrise, but make damned sure you bring mosquito repellant. ;-)

http://www.tropicdiver.com/pineisland3ab.jpg

Hey TD. Went out to Bokeelia last time I was down for dinner at that little place right across from that pier. Got a couple sunset shots. Colors were just ok. Man, you've been hitting them at the perfect time, your photos are spectacular. :thumbsup:

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Amazing photos, tropicdiver. Thanks for sharing! As SecretMethod70 suggested, I bet you could sell some of these photos if you wanted to.

those are incredible :) thanks!

PJ, I recognize that palm tree in the right background. Hey, I live here. I get plenty of opportunities for the beautiful skies. You should see the ones that got away... ;-)


Thanks, everyone. :)

When you focus on something, everything 1/3 in fron to 2/3 behind is in focus. So instead of focusing on infinity and wasting the 2/3 that is behind infinity (impossible) just focus on something 1/3 out to infinity. Then you can maximize your depth of field.

Went to Ft. Myers beach two days, ago. Sun was setting over Sanibel Island.

http://www.tropicdiver.com/sanibela.jpg

Great sunrise and sunset pictures. Makes me wish I were there.

Birch Bay State Park in Washington

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Birch Bay State Park in Washington



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I have lots of them but no place to put them on the net anymore, if you know of a free place to host pic's please let me know and I will be happy to post a lot of them

thanks

<B>Here's this Sunday morning's sunrise about a 5 minute drive from my house.</B>

I never lose fascination in how the clouds can change so many different colors over a 20 minute period.

Stunning! I'm amazed at how beautiful these pictures are! I love the ones where they sky is on fire. This makes me want to get up and enjoy the sunrises much more often.

being in california, I get great sunset,

and theres bioluminescent algae in the water so when waves crash they light up!

Man, did we have a great sunrise this morning! This is looking from Cape Coral across the Caloosahatchee River to Fort Myers.

I keep thinking I've seen about every variation of a sunrise over the water, down here, but this morning was another keeper. ;)

Even the Australian Pines wanted to get into the sunrise. ;)

This one made me think of Purple Haze and excuse me, while I kiss the sky... :)

I had to reduce the size of this one to put up on this page, but hopefully, you'll get the idea of the colors...

Okay, I figure, by now, you get an idea of the kind of sunrises we get around my neck of the world. ;)

Wow, these pictures are stunning!
I really need to get off my butt and head down to the beach to catch some East Florida coast pictures.
Thanks for the inspiration!

Those are some really amazing pictures.

I've been to Sanibel a few times and it really is beautiful.

Some info to impress your friends with next time the Sun rises or sets:


Although you've surely seen it, you might not have noticed it. During a cloudless twilight, just before sunrise or after sunset, part of the atmosphere above the horizon appears slightly off-color, slightly pink. Called the Belt of Venus, this off-color band between the dark eclipsed sky and the blue sky can be seen in nearly every direction including that opposite the Sun. Straight above, blue sky is normal sunlight reflecting off the atmosphere. In the Belt of Venus, however, the atmosphere reflects light from the setting (or rising) Sun which appears more red. The Belt of Venus can be seen from any location with a clear horizon.

Taken from: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031021.html

wow tropicdiver those are absolutely stunnning

I had to drive to central Florida (Sebring) this morning for business. Happened to catch sunrise at the lake, there. There wasn't a ripple on the lake. Flat as glass.

Here's another example of how calm the lake water was this morning.

Here is a different angle for you. Taken aboard the USS Enterprise back in my navy days.

Enjoy a good aircraft carrier shot of anything. Great photo. :)

Los Angeles Sunrise
 

Unfortunately I was in the middle of LA, so I couldn't escape the power lines, but the colors are still gorgeous.
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@ tropic >> your photos are amazing, do you sell prints at all?

yeah, the lake at Sebring photos are my favourites so far! I would definitely have either as posters on my wall.

the USS Enterprise is very cool too, as is the LA sky with power lines .. I think having something in foreground helps set off the background. Especially if it's in near-silhouette.

Lots of folks told me I should. Had one published (for free) in a pro tennis magazine (I was flattered and gave them the okay to use the photo) and I was contacted out of the clear blue, once, by a web designer that liked one of my photos and she offered (and I accepted) me $250.00 for one of my photos to grace as the background the main page of a business web site.

Believe me, if I knew what to do, and really thought my photos were THAT great (which they aren't, but thanks, anyway :) ), I'd love to try. Anything to get me out of the business I am in, now. ;)

Here's a quick shot that I took last nite on my way home from working late. I had to stop by a customers and it was about 20 minutes before sunset and I was less than a mile from our local pier and as always, I had my camera with me, so....

I always try to keep telephone / power lines out of my photos, but I found your photo to be rather interesting with the matrix of lines in it. Knowing where you were, makes it interesting. Thanks for sharing. :)

Here's another one. It rarely works when shooting directly into the sun, while it is completely out, but I always try, anyway. ;)

Really nice photos.

Sunset:

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Sunrise:

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I drove down to Sanibel Island, today. It's not quite 30 minutes from where I live. Figured I'd take a couple of photos. Ended up taking 138 photos, instead. God, I love living on the southwest coast of Florida. :)

Here's from another vantage point on Sanibel this evening.

I usually hate sunsets without clouds, but tonite was fun. :)

Sunset, tonite, was pretty darn nice, too. :-)

Hell, I could post tonite's sunset for half the nite. I took 98 photos. ;-)

i like the one before the last, how the clouds frame the picture up top

Tropicdiver,

I am highly impressed.

Thanks for sharing so much inspiration. I just bought a decent digital camera, and look forward to the fun.

Awesome pics tropicdiver :cool:

This one can’t compare to the quality of your sunsets.


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Thanks. I was just there and snapped the photo. I do enjoy the photo of the lone upright tree.

One more taken the same day.

i hate waking up in the morning so i might take a picture of the sunset when it comes, theyre kinda the same thing anyway

Not sunrises, but close enough!

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Tillamook Head in Seaside

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Sunset, same day.. clouds finally went away

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Another sunset, hard to keep teh horizon straight when standing in dunes, but I think I did fairly well haha

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More sunset, more un-even horizon due to dunes

I was in Key West two weekends back. Only caught one sunset, tho.

well i finally got around to it. My sunrise picture

Tropicdiver! You're pictures are too good!
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I might have missed you saying, but what camera do you use?

Anyway, here is my only good sunrise picture:
http://www.zen8722.zen.co.uk/ROB/sunrise.jpg

The only reason I was up to see that was because I was meant to be going to school. But it was snowed off. :)

Here's a "pre-sunrise" photo. Most times, IMHO, this time of dawn is actually better than when the sun starts to rise.. :)

I have a Nikon Coolpix 5700. I really don't do anything special with the camera. I nearly always have it set on automatic and the focus sent on infinity. The trick with low light is using a tripod and a remote shutter to minimize any vibration from pressing the shutter or any motion from taking a photo at such a slow shutter speed, that it is next to impossible to hold the camera perfectly still, hence the tripod.

Thanks for your kind words. :)