Kempen Twilight Sunset Images November 2014

Kempen Twilight Sunset Images November 2014

 

Driving around in my hometown neighbourhood and surrounding villages I was looking for a suitable place where I could catch some nice wide landscape views. 

Hoping to snap some sunset images. Not entirly sure of how the twilight would develop and whitout tripod or plan I stopped at several places and just started to take some pictures.

This is what I encountered and tried to make some nice images of what I saw.

(all photos are clickable for enlargement)

 

First set at "De Pan" next to the A67 Highway close to Bladel

Sunset next to Highway at "De Pan"
 Sunset next to Highway at "De Pan"

 I went across to the other side of the highway for a better wider view.

Sunset and contrails in the sky
 Sunset at "De Pan" with contrails in the sky

 

 Zoomed in to sunset
 Zoomed in to sunset with some twigs in front

 

Another angle on the sunset at "De Pan"
 Another angle on the sunset at "De Pan"

 

Again zoomed in for a closeup
 Again zoomed in for a closeup 



Zoomed in some more
 And Zoomed in some more


Next stop was a little further away in a small village called Dalem, just beyond "Landal Het Vennebos"  I found a view over the landscape towards the Twilight horizon at "De Pals".

 

Twilight at "De Pals"
 Twilight at "De Pals"


This looked great so I decided to place my camera on a railway sleeper that was put in the ground to make some HDR bracketing shots with Magic Latern.

 Sunset at "De Pals" in HDR
 Sunset at "De Pals" in HDR



Antoher Tonemaped HDR of the sunset
 Antoher Tonemaped HDR of the sunset



 And yet another angle on the twilight with trees and a bush
 And yet another angle on the twilight with trees and a bush



 A closeup with twigs (no HDR)
 A closeup with twigs in the front (no HDR)



 Zoomed in a bit more (no HDR)
 Zoomed in a bit more (no HDR)

 

And back to HDR trying to get some more colours
 And back to HDR trying to get some more colours

 

 Same spot Monochrome with two exposures
 Same spot Monochrome with two exposures tonemapped



Twilight composition in HDR Tonemapped
 Twilight composition in HDR Tonemapped



 Slightly zoomed in, oh those colours...
 Slightly zoomed in and HDR, ohh those colours...

 

Max zoomed in without HDR
 Max zoomed in without HDR

 Actually except the HDR Tonemapped images nothing has been manipulated at all with photoshop or anything, just plain RAW image converted into JPEG !

 And the last one without HDR or trick just plain sunset
 And the last one without HDR or tricks just plain sunset colours

 

 The End!

Hope you enjoyed it.

Photography by Johfrael Copyright © 2014

Camera: Canon EOS 60D
Lens:Canon EF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS

HDR with Magic Latern 2.3 and Photomatix Pro 4.2