US Marine Corps War Memorial - Sunrise (C&C Welcome)

[Braineack]

Woke up early to catch the sunrise over DC. Been wanting to do this for a long time. Met with a bunch of challenges and learned from the experience.

was out for about an hour, and was happy with these two shots:



US Marine Corps War Memorial Sunrise by The Braineack, on Flickr





C&C is welcome and appreciated.

 

[tirediron]

Nice images; did you use a G-ND on these?

 

[Braineack]

Nice images; did you use a G-ND on these?

No; I wish i had one. I used my CPL and I'm glad I at least had that. It was very apparent that a GND or any extra ND filter would have been very beneficial. The shots with my 70-200 were unusable without anything on it, I forgot my step-up ring to fit my other CPL to it.

 

[CdTSnap]

Only one I would have tried is putting the directly behind the troops to get that glow around them, but nice!

 

[Braineack]

I tried. here's the problem:




Even the one I posted I had to clean up a bit.




there wasn't any real angle or vantage I was happy with.

 

[CdTSnap]

Ah yeah I see your point , almost not bright enough to get the effect, I wonder if a lower shutter speed may have helped?

 

[pjaye]

I like them both, but really love the first one. I think the darkness of it lends itself to the feeling I get when I see these monuments. A sadness, for all the fallen heros. Military factors large in my family and I have a huge respect for them. Nicely done.

 

[Braineack]

Ah yeah I see your point , almost not bright enough to get the effect, I wonder if a lower shutter speed may have helped?

Oh i was bracketing, just picked a random frame. I was mainly talking about the tree


But I was already shooting at iso50 and F11, so I needed a ND filter desperately.

 

[CdTSnap]

Ah yeah I see your point , almost not bright enough to get the effect, I wonder if a lower shutter speed may have helped?

Oh i was bracketing, just picked a random frame. I was mainly talking about the tree

Ohhhhh... see now I do skywalker

 

[Braineack]

Went B&W with another just now:




I spent more time removing all the nasty spots that showed up from my sensor, than I did on the processing... I think my body is going back to Nikon soon.

 

[DarkShadow]

They came out nice pleasant on the eyes and there Nice clean images. I also like that you got motion blur of the flag on #2. Nice Job

 

[Stevepwns]

I like all of the pics you have posted in this thread. The first is a fantastic representation of what it looks like there. Ive seen a few sunrises there that look just like that.

 

[ronlane]

The very first one is my favorite. Nicely done.

 

[AlanKlein]

Nice shots well done.

 

[harishu]

all nice. first is my fav.