Sunset over the ocean

This is a first time I've used my new Solid & Graduated Neutral Density 7 Filter Kit with Adapter Rings. 

 

Sunset over the Atlantic ocean. It was a quiet beautiful evening on the Atlantic seaside on November 6, 2016.

I wanted to take a few pictures of the sunset over the Atlantic and to play with my gradient filters.

 

 

How do I develop my photos

Post Processing with Sleeklens.com

Last week I've found a web site sleeklens.com that creates workflows (presets and brushes) for any type of photography - wedding, landscape, portrait, architecture, black and white, etc... 

You might have seen a lot of presets on the Internet as well Adobe Lightroom own presets. In most of the cases after you applied them you need to adjust settings to achieve the result you want.

From my experience I've learnt do not expect a lot from the presets. But sleeklens landscape presets have prove that I was wrong. 
 

This is a panorama created in Lightroom, unprocessed, taken in RAW.
 

Now let's get started. 
Step 1 - All in One - Warm Shadows
 

  Step 2 - Preset Base - Auto Tone Color

Step 3 - Brush Light Darken applied to darken a pavement to direct a view toward the waterfall
 

Step 4 - Preset Reduce Yellow - because I was using ND filter some yellow color comes up that needs to be removed to make the photo more realistic.

Step 5 - Brush Color - Cooler - let's add some blue color to the waterfall
 

And 2 final steps...
Step 6 Preset - Vignette Medium Black

And the final step 7 - Brush Strokes - Light Darken to remove some overexposed spots

Done...
From this - 

To this -

In 7 steps. 

Sunsets

Sunset - the most beautiful event that mother nature has created. These golden hours are essential for any photographer. 

Sunsets over the ocean - yet another gift form the Nature.

Sunset over the ocean

Sunset over the Battery park, NY.

It was very rainy day of July, 16, 2016. We decided to walk to Manhattan, maybe take a ferry to the Exchange Place, NJ to take few black and white pictures of the NY Downtown. I like bad weather days because they add more drama to the composition. 

So we were walking down the Battery park and to our surprise  rain has stopped and this beautiful sunset has changed our plan.

Enjoy.

Sunset over the NY harbor

Sunset over the Battery Park, New York.

Black and white photography

Black and white Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY - beaches, ocean, sea gulls.

Under the Pier

Black and white Coney Island

 

Black and white New York Landscape Photography

The Oculus

In the center of Manhattan Downtown World Trade Center The Oculus, transportation hub that was designed by Santiago Calatrava - it's a Architecture landmark in NY. It will connect MTA subway lines with PATH trains that runs between NY and NJ.

Chrysler Building

Brooklyn Bridge

IAC Building

IAC Building