… from Mrs Macquarie’s Chair
There is some really beautiful detail in this image, you can see the projections onto the Opera House sails (LHS), the Harbour bridge climbers, the lights of North sydney.
It can be quite tricky to capture sunset scenes when shooting directly into the sunset or light source, the large dynamic range in the light means you need ot bracket your images, even when the light does become more subtle and soft as when this shot was taken.
This image is a panorama of 3 frames, with each frame bracketed, you can see the result in this by looking at the shadow detail on the opera house and the full rich orange of the sunset underneath the bridge. There are quite a few ways to do images like this, in this case I have automatically blended the individual pano frames in Lightroom resulting in 3 DNG format files, these are then sent to Photoshop to be stitched together, there is then a bit of wrangling to ensure the perspective is correct and just some usual adjustments to accentuate the scene.
+Gerard Blacklock The detail is superb Gerard, love the subtle tonal range you got with this.
Outstanding work, Gerard. Nicely done as usual.
+Gerard Blacklock this is wonderful work, like it 🙂
Extremely well made.
Gorgeous with that sky color!
This is the stuff of dreams. Magnificent!
it is beautiful – but it looks like there are two opera houses… it's very clever!
Fabulous +Gerard Blacklock​! I fancy having this on my wall :))
+Chris Sutton thanks mate, sweet light helps 🙂
Thanks +Scott Soucy , hope your doing well mate.
+Joseph Zee cheers mate 🙂
+Howard Hearne thanks Howard
+Shelly Gunderson just managed to get there in time : )
+Carolyn Fahm Thanks Carolyn 🙂
+Kate Arnold it does huh! never looked at it like that before and now I cant stop seeing two opera houses 🙂
+Kitten KaboodleInc all yours mate ! i would crop it a bit tho, in hindsight I feel its a bit unbalanced, needs a bit shopped off the left side…
+Gerard Blacklock Yep ok I did a quick test.. yes I see what you mean 🤔 It's just I've got these long blank walls screaming out for a pano of some sort 😀 Have to pm you guys ..may be down October or November 🙂
+Kitten KaboodleInc need a picture.. just ask and its yours 🙂 def catchup when your in the land of the shit traffic 🙂
+Gerard Blacklock Thanks so much Big G 😀 Yes ..traffic? What's that? ;-))
+Gerard Blacklock Hi Gerard, Kitten's question prompted the idea, are you open to selling an image for use as a website header (it's for a financial consultant's website, he's a good guy though :))
+Chris Sutton yeah sure mate, just as long it does not mean too much effort for me 😉 I often trade for alcohol 😉
+Gerard Blacklock Hi Gerard, many thanks, that's much appreciated. I'll just need a jpeg file of what you've posted here, I'll check the width, but don't need anything changed on the image. I'll run the image by him and get back to you soon. Payment methods are flexible 🙂
STUPENDA CITTÀ.