"Behind The Photo"

The idea to show how photographs are born seemed interesting to me. Indeed, in the posts we see the end result, whatever it may be. I am a simple amateur photographer and do photography mainly for myself. Recently, also for Steеmit.

My story happened on the lake. This is Nakhimovskoe Lake, which is located 85 kilometers from St. Petersburg (Russia). Sometimes I come there to my friend. His house is located on the eastern shore of the lake. This means that I can watch the sun go down. You never know what the sunset will be like today. The day was cloudy. Sometimes the sun peeked out. I was hoping that maybe a colorful sunset. For example, like this

Идея про рождение фотографии мне показалась интересной. Действительно, в постах мы видим конечный результат, каким бы он не был. Я простой фотолюбитель и занимаюсь фотографией в основном для себя. В последнее время ещё и для Стимита.

Моя история случилась на берегу озера. Это озеро Нахимовское, которое находится в 85 километрах от Санкт-Петербурга (Россия). Иногда я приезжаю туда к своему другу. Его дом находится на восточном берегу озера. Это значит, что я могу наблюдать закаты солнца. Никогда не знаешь, каким будет закат сегодня. День был скорее облачным. Иногда выглядывало солнце. Я надеялся, что возможно будет красочный закат. Например вот такой

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I did not take a tripod with me. I like to take live photos with my hands. I do not use filters either. Just a Sony A7M2 camera with a Sony 1.4 35 lens. This is all my equipment.

The weather was windy and clouds covered half the sky. Sometimes the sun peeked out, but there were no warm colors in the sky. It just blinded my lens. Seeing the clouds moving, I wandered along the shore in anticipation of a convenient moment. Just in case, I took some pictures. I don’t know what I was waiting for. Just waiting and taking pictures.

These pictures are almost not processed. A slight correction of the settings.

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Finally, something interesting appeared. Warm colors in the sky were not added, but the clouds lined up in an interesting order. As if a chain of something fluffy was born somewhere near the horizon and stretched towards me.

After taking a few shots, I decided to leave this whole venture and return home to the fireplace and hot tea. The wind managed to cool me down.
This is the prehistory.

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Today I began to choose something interesting from this series. In the end, my choice settled on this picture. At first he looked like this

I always shoot in RAW format and having received all the possible information, at home I am already developing the picture. Lately I use Lightroom

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Here you can see that so far I have not changed anything. Furthermore, ISO100 35 mm f / 9.0 1/250.

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Here you can see all the changes in the settings. I adjusted the light / shadow, added a little contrast and sharpness. I had to clean the picture from the spots that appeared when shooting. The end result is what you see below.

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it's not really a sunset, actually. The sun still sank to the horizon. Perhaps later those warm tones appeared in the sky that I mentioned. It’s just that I didn’t have the patience that evening.

This is the story of the appearance of this photo here in front of you. I hope that I have fulfilled all the conditions of the competition. Ready to answer possible questions.

Have a nice weekend

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my entry to "Behind The Photo" by @nelyp

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