Was in the UK last December with mostly cold and rainy weather, but it did clear up on small occasions to capture moody scenes like this one from the Victoria Maintenance Depot overlooking Battersea Power Station, which has since been converted into a new shopping mall with light displays every night.
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Managed to pull myself out of bed for sunrise that morning, which was worth it since the light was good the entire day - an anomaly during the monsoon season in Singapore indeed.
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A winter sunset over York Mister from the city walls after the downpour in the early afternoon - with a cute husky in the foreground that stood still for the length of this exposure.
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It was rainy and cloudy during time in Edinburgh, so I didn't get to shoot as much as I would've hoped there. Fortunately though, it did clear up during sunset on my second last day there. I'd had hoped to explore Arthur's Seat at Salisbury Craig (and maybe even get an aurora) but that's for another time it seems.
One thing that's for sure - if it does clear up in the day after the rain, the subsequent light is almost always quite nice.
This is a two image blend using the Sky Replacement feature of Photoshop for the skies. Very useful feature if your sky has complex features that would make it tricky to brush by hand. Luminosity masks to further treat the highlights after.
I opted to blend instead of just exposing for the highlights and lifting the shadows because the resulting shadows will take on a stronger off-colour cast and saturation when pushed. Also, the hot spot in the sky was quite a bit brighter than the rest of the scene. Still, I'm lazy - 2 exposures is more than enough to cover the dynamic range of most scenes from modern sensors without noticeable noise.
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Woke up at 2am to join the massive jeep jam up King Kong Hill to watch the sunrise across Mount Bromo. This was taken before we ascended to the viewing point, which was already packed at 4am.
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