Mangonui full moon Photo

Photographer’s Note

Mangonui is a small, picturesque fishing village in Doubtless Bay.
Mangonui is Maori for 'big shark' and Doubtless Bay gets its name from an entry in Captain Cooks logbook, where he wrote that the body of water was 'doubtless a bay'.
I found the full moon rising against the backdrop of the lovely sunset colours too irresistable to not take a photo.
I had to crop the photo to lose some unintersting and distracting foreground which i really wanted when composing the photo, but felt that this crop felt better for posting. Also added mild saturation to bring out these lovely colours.

danby1, supereira, spence, Tavo, Janice has marked this note useful

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cyril (2748) 2004-11-22 5:44

Hi Steve,
Very beautiful atmosphere in this shot.
If you didn't say it was the moon I would have thought it was the sun :-)

danby1 (3689) 2004-11-22 5:59

beautiful picture, and the colours are just brilliant, as cyril says, at first glance i thought it was the sun setting/rising. but its a beautiful shot of the moon.

supereira (9576) 2004-11-22 6:03

Great shot!I like a lot the colors and the contrast between them.Great reflections the sun in the water.I like the POV and DOF.Great composition and framing.Beautiful shot!

spence (1679) 2004-11-22 6:17

A gorgeous, tranquil mood you've got here Steve - beautiful soft colours, and I love the slight ripple on the water. I like the simple composition of the shot and the frame you've chosen too.

sn00zie (2384) 2004-11-22 7:54

ahh Steve! you have some gorgeous pastel shades captured here with a beautiful reflection too. i particularly like the reflection of the sun in the water. its LOVELY

Tavo (586) 2004-11-22 11:54

A number of your photos are built on colors, Steve, and usually you admit additional saturation, IMO unnecessary. I recognise that "natural colours" is a very relative notion in both classic and digital photography, but here on TE one definitely cannot believe colours presented, too often so. Therefore I appreciate your honesty, although don’t agree with what you do. Because the colours as taken by camera and reproduced by monitor are usually fine enough and for a viewer with a taste and understanding even a slight saturation means overdoing and discredit them. (Your Artist palette, Britomart colours, Matauri Bay - I have a very similar picture from Sardinia and I know what I am talking about). I already some time consider to suggest Adam to make indicating additional colour saturation obligatory in the note.
In this case you have said nothing about saturation and I have no reason not to believe that colours here are not manipulated. I also can imagine that such combination of colours exists in the nature, rarely though - and this made your picture the more valuable, really excellent for its simple composition allowing undistracted concentration on gentle tones of colours. I appreciate very much when photographer recognises the main value of the capture and gives an emophasis to it regardless any textbook rules of composition etc.
PeterB

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Janice (4386) 2004-11-26 5:34

Hi Steve. Whatever you cropped off in the foreground it isn't missed, 'cos I think this sunrise is perfect. The colours in the sky and ther eflexions on the water are superb. Another good job.

adind (738) 2005-01-25 2:56

I like the colourful reflection of sun light on the
calm water surface...

best,
atis

kiwi_explorer (12195) 2006-07-17 4:17

Hi Steve,
This is a postcard perfect photo. The colours are so real ... well composed. Well done.
Cheers,
Renier