Refuge Sunset

[Dave_Douglass]

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Description

I captured this at the end of a full afternoon of shooting at the Merced National Wildlife Refuge.

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D500, Nikon 200-500 lens, 1/500th, 8.0, 585mm, ISO 100, hand held, cropped to 5549 x 3699

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[Larry_Greenbaum]

HI Dave, Nice sunset. The orange line in the foreground adds nice balance and interest to the image. I am not a fan of blown out sun, even though I recognize how difficult it is to avoid in conditions like this. In my edit, I have used the TK9 plugin in Photoshop to paint in some of the yellow over the blowout. I did not complete the bottom part, which you can easily do. Of course, this is all a matter of your vision and taste with the image. Lovely sunset image.