Southern California Sunset Photo

Photographer’s Note

This is a view from the mesa of Costa Mesa out over Huntington Beach and on out to sea. You can see the Edison power plant on the right side of the photo. This is a scan from a negative and I don't think I did the best job. You can see some grainyness on the top which is not in the original slide.

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singuanti (15240) 2005-02-01 21:15

you've got some very wild colors from that scan. the lights in the foreground are too. looks like the sharpness could be bumped up a little and remove some noise from the sky, but otherwise a fine shot.

jiekuan (330) 2005-02-01 22:21

Nice color in the sky. The lower part is quite dark, you may need to crop it out?

ballaln (400) 2005-12-31 3:24

The colors are great......makes one wonder...

The pic is soft? do you sharpen?

atctim (73) 2006-01-23 1:23

Very nice color in the sky. Not much in the way of a subject, however. Too bad there isnt something below the sky for the viewers attention.

I was going to ask about the quality but then I saw it was taken in 1984 and you had to scan it in. Not too bad given those circumstances.

rajhema (1863) 2006-01-27 16:39

This picture lacks a lot. Except the lines of colors on the sky, this is a very poor shot.

timleahy (2189) 2006-01-27 18:25

Hi Alex,

Lovely shot, great colours. However it is rather unsharp and sky is very noisy. I did a workshop to see if I could improve sharpness and reduce noise, hope you like it.

thanks
...tim

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