Make the effort
Sometimes you just have to make the effort to get the shot. For me the early mornings are really hard; this explains how few sunrise shots I have! The morning light often has the blue-ish look to it where as sunset has a golden glow. Of course these days we tools like Photoshop and we can fake it to a degree.
In this shot I hiked-up the hill at sunset hoping to get some kind of drama from the sun as it cast light over the valley. Then I thought I’d wait until the sun was just going below the horizon when I got this one. Its kind of an optical illusion to my mind; it seems like the sun is really rising but the golden glow gives it away.
This is a single RAW exposure processed with Nik Software Color Efex Pro 4 – have you tried this yet? They allow you to stack effects within Color Efex Pro itself rather than through a series of layers in Photoshop. The result of this is that the whole edit cycle is so much faster. Plus you can create “recipes” that combine a series of effects. This is great to not only speed editing but also ensure you get a replicate look across a series of images.
These tools helped me work the magic:
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