I took this photo on Sand Beach in Liverpool, if I can remember correctly it was taken at the end of July 2011. This photo is one of my favourites because I'm a big fan of colourful backgrounds with silhouettes in the foreground. I shot this photo because of the way the setting sun was making the sky look. but taking the photo is only half of what needs to be done to get it to look like this.
When I took this photo I had the camera on on program mode which automatically sets the aperture and shutter speed based on the amount of exposure I want to have. With ISO at 100 to minimize noise I set the camera for a -2 exposure to make the trees in the foreground come out as silhouettes.
Where I shoot photos in RAW format most of the time there has to be post processing done with Photoshop, or another editing program to get the colours and details to pop out. RAW format is the raw data that the camera's image sensor captures at the time when the photo is taken. So in Photoshop in the Camera RAW editor I turned the vibrance up to about 85% to bring out the colours and turned the saturation up a tiny bit. Also boosted the blacks a bit to help bring out the silhouettes. After turning up the vibrance up the image was pretty grainy so I ran a de-noise filter on the image to flatten out the noise.
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