Scott Keegan Photography

I know I’ve been overdoing the sunset stuff, but it is the golden hour and the colours in this shot have always made stop and look again.  This was taken once again on Nobby’s Beach, which was the setting for Thursday’s image.  Here we’re facing in the same direction but it’s slightly later and I’ve pulled in for a tighter crop.  I also ran this through my current favourite add-on – Topaz Adjust – using one of their HDR presets and tweaking it slightly to draw out a little more contrast detail.

This is the last in my Australia series, tomorrow we start on a new theme.

Yes, it’s another sunset.  I told you yesterday that I love sunsets.  This one was shot at Nobby’s Beach in Newcastle, NSW – which is one of my favourite beaches in the world.  The beach name may be known to some of you because of the enormous ship that washed up on it during a huge storm a couple of years ago.

I actually took this shot several years ago with one of my first digital cameras, a Sony Cybershot, so it was a smallish JPG to start with and therefore a bit trickier to manipulate later in Photoshop.

Most of the work I did was to counteract the effects of the strong sun shining into the camera, which affected the colour and the exposure.  It’s not a perfect shot by any means, but it’s an old favourite of mine.

I love sunset shots, the colours are amazing and you get so much scope to work with shadows and light.  This shot was taken on the mid-north coast of NSW, not far from the holiday town of Laurieton.  You can see smoke from a bushfire on the horizon, which has tinged the clouds a smoky orange.

This was a 3-shot HDR at +/- 2 stops.  I first ran it through Photomatix and then tweaked in LR2, adding clarity, vibrance and sharpening.