As the sun starts to go down the colors start to change, the mood sets, and the universe gets quiet.
For the next 15 minutes you can see the sun hide behind the Grand Canyon, like an orchestra performing in perfect harmony right before my eyes. I take a deep breath, take it all in, and smile.
This is what I love about photography, it’s an excuse to constantly see places like this, record a slice of time, and share it with the world.
These are my favorite shots of the Grand Canyon from my recent road trip to the West Coast.
A couple weeks ago some friends and I drove up to Naples Florida to watch the sunset. We kind of go stuck at my house watching Dumb and Dumber so we ended up leaving late. By the time we go to Naples the sun was already setting, and by the time we got our cameras out the sun was gone.
We were bummed out for about 2 minutes until the hues in the sky stared to change to this really nice golden yellow, then it was all good again. Lesson learned, no funny movies before a mini road trip….
Camera Settings:
5 Second Exposure f/18 ISO50 200mm
I shot this a few weeks back from South Pointe Park here in Miami Beach. I often come here to watch the sunset and watch the ships leave the port of Miami. Its an spectacular site to see, not only the massive ships leaving but also the amazing sunsets you get to see from this park. This sail boat was coming into port as this ship was leaving and it looked like they were going to crash.
I made a video to show you how to edit photos like this one and get colors out of your images. Thats why its very important to always shoot RAW. (I made a video on this, its somewhere on my channel)
Camera settings: 1/200 of a second F2.8 ISO 500 I shot this with a 70-200mm lens my Aperture was wide open and my ISO was high because I didn’t have a tripod and had to shoot this handheld, shooting the photograph this way prevented any blur or fuzziness on my photograph.
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After a short couple weeks of traveling, its always nice to come home to the amazing Florida weather and Florida Sunsets. It never disappoints waking up to a sunrise or going to sleep after a sunset like this one.
I shot this sunset a few months ago at the Naples pier in Naples Florida. Every day at sunset people line up to watch the sun set over the Gulf, its an incredible site to see. Sometimes its cloudy, sometimes its plain, but one thing is for sure, it never fails to impress.
Camera settings: 1/125 of a second f/11 ISO 320 85mm 24-85mm lens
The Oakland Bay Bridge From The Beach Below, San Francisco California.
After a long drive up the coast I had made it just in time for the sunset, the only thing left to do was park the rental car and hike down the hill to set up for my shot. I have wanted to shoot here many times but this was my first time. Parking and walking was the easy part, the hard part was hiking down from the main road to the beach next to the bridge, specially since I had no idea where I was going and there is no clear path on where to go on a very steep hill.
Finally I had made it. There I was, now all I had to do was wait for the sunset, get my shot, and hike up the hill in the dark, and it was really really dark.
The sunset wasn’t epic but its wasn’t bad, and the photo well I’m happy with it, its not what I had imagined in my head but I’m happy with it. I wanted more clouds and a crazy pink sky… maybe next time…
This is shot from the East Side of the brigade from Yerba Buena Island facing West. What you see is the Bay Bridge and the San Francisco Skyline Below it.
