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Fuji sunset

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Mt Fuji is seen just after sunset earlier this week. The black dots in the foreground are ducks feeding on the mud flats of Kisarazu in Chiba Prefecture, overlooking Tokyo Bay and Kanagawa in the foreground.

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Beautiful photo ! (Would make a great postcard to send to gaikoku !)

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I wannna use this fine Fuji sunset photo as my new year card!

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This is way beyond the capabilities of the ordinary snapshot camera. The photographer (is Damon Bay a name?) must have shot it using a 1,200mm telephoto lens.

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GalapagosnoGairaishuNOV. 20, 2014 - 09:06AM JST This is way beyond the capabilities of the ordinary snapshot camera. The photographer (is Damon Bay a name?) must have shot it using a 1,200mm telephoto lens.

Not at all. I've got a similar sunrise shot taken on a December morning a few years ago from a hotel balcony at Tokyo Disneyland with a Panasonic Lumix.

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Like a modern version of one of the 36 views of Mount Fuji.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-six_Views_of_Mount_Fuji

Tip: Ukiyoe are a great way to see how life really was at the time, considering who and when they were made.

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Galapagos

I wish I could afford a 1200mm lense, they cost more than my car!! This one was shot with a 300mm lense on a Canon DSLR, so not so special. It is a 30 second exposure though, so beyond the capabilities of most "snapshot cameras", but this is not a snapshot. It took a long time to get this shot.

Chuichi Hashimura, Thaks for the compliment! If you Google "Damon Bay Photography", you'll find my public facebook page. I'll upload a larger copy there for downloading.

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Really channeling Hokusai there, as Mr. Basher pointed out.

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I am sort of tired of Mt. Fuji pictures.... too much a good thing can be a bad thing.

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Good picture. Nice framing and good coloring. Contrast isn't the best, but still good.

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@Damon Bay

May anyone download your photo ? I would like to use it as "background" on my computer.

BTW, I have taken some pretty good "sunsets" of Fuji-san (from a bit too far away) myself with my tiny "NIKON - COOLPIX" (there's no way I could buy a more expensive camera !)

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Sorry Damon,. but this is not a 30 second exposure. I've done many of them, and you can't possibly see waves in the reflection of the Fujisan there..

Nevertheless, a very nice picture.

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Ebisen,

Yes, you're right, my mistake! The ducks wouldn't be visible at 30s either. I'm at work at the moment so can't check the exif details and my memory is about as soft as a 30second exposure myself! I think it was 1second at f/9 ISO1600.

Fighting Viking,

Yes, I don't usually encourage people to use my photos for free, but I didn't watermark this one so pleae go ahead. I will put a downloadable version on my facebook page on the weekend.

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@Damon: I think you are mistaken with the time lapse. Nothing noticeable in the image says so. Very minute duck movement as well. To clear on the ducks. I looked at your data. 72 DPI. 52.92 x 33.66cm

You have no Meta data in the file. For Copyright protection, implant the meta data. In Photoshop CC, go to file then to file info and insert all your information.

By the way, always open up a 300 DPI file and drag your image in there and do your adjustments. Then, when you want to upload to a site such as JapanToday, save as a jpg, use your Unsharp Mask Filter and be sure to shrink your dimensions for common screen sizes before saving as a Jpg.

I am a professional and teach this stuff.

I would give your picture an "A" for sure with some tweaking in composition etc. Nice work. Will check out your other stuff. Keep on shooting!

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JapanGal, It was about 30 minutes after sunset, and long lense so hence the exposure time. How big is your screen? if you look carefully at the ducks you can see the movement. I did some 30 second exposures after this to erase the clouds, which is why I got confused, I'm pretty sure this one was a second or 2.

Thanks for the tips! and thanks for the "A". Cut me some slack on the composition, this is a harder shot than it looks :) The tide is moving across the uneven ground, the ducks are coming and going so you are constantly moving along the mudflats in search of an angle, each time you have to slide plastic disks under each tripod leg to stop it sinking into the wet mud. The Fuji reflection only appears briefly between wind bursts, and then you have to time it between airplane trails. It's not the best Fuji location, but it's one that few people know about so worth photographing.

Where can I find your photography?

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JapanGal, no professional in its right mind would advise"save as jpg". Unsharp mask after size reduction, for a generally soft picture? Er, how about no?

Oh, I'm an amateur, but I published in a few books, just to get my lenses paid...

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Stunning !

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ebisen: One advises that jpeg is standard when saving for the net and not for printing. 72 dpi for a Mac viewer and 96 for a Window viewer.

If you are going to press, CMYK as a Photoshop file at 300 DPI to be printed on and offset printer for Japan and America which have the same standards. For other countries, you would have to look up the required settings as I do not work in Europe or other parts of Asia.

I do know this material well.

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