Washington, DC
No, I have not gone out in this crazy cold weather to take more photos at sunrise! There has been an itch in the back of my mind since I know that not too many people will be out there, and the skies have been really clear in the mornings. However, the logical side of my brain won saying not to risk it with this record cold out there. Also, I do not have the proper gear to get out there and make images without getting frost bite! But I did make some nice ones after the Korean War Memorial walk through that I posted about earlier. When I started to walk back towards the car from that area, I saw this right behind me:
Cold Sunrise
I have already made so many images of the Lincoln Memorial, but this amazing monument that is colored pink in the breaking sunrise was too good to pass up. I did not go into the memorial, as this was not what was in the best light. With the sun very low on the horizon, the pink was hitting the structure that was built up higher first. I moved as quickly as I could into position without slipping on the frozen ground to make more photos.
The images above are just about straight out of the camera using the Vivid camera calibration from my Nikon. This last image was from an HDR of 9 bracketed exposures. I did not go too crazy with the post-processing. I just wanted punch up a little of the saturation in the sky while keeping the detail and sharpness of the building. Trying to do this on a single exposure was too difficult to balance correctly without making the masking or selection look like a mess. The HDR processing was a much faster way to get where I wanted to go!
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