Sunsets - 01/14 - 01/21 (Sara)

These pictures were taken on Monday at work because the sunsets this past weekend were pretty lame. I was using manual focus because my auto-focus was being frustrating. I'm a big fan of auto-focus because I can never seem to get the image as crisp as I want it to be in manual focus, but being dependent on the auto-focus makes for blurry pictures when you're not using it. Anyway, while using manual focus, I found a creative way of displaying a somewhat ordinary sunset:

*I keep changing the order in which the pictures go (from clear to blurry, blurry to clear) -- I think I like this one better.

The original, pre-processed images came out pretty dull, but I was amused with the post-processed results. Originals and larger images can be found here. You'll notice that the image that's supposed to be clear is actually a little blurry because I'm not used to manual focus. :(

I'm not too thrilled with my pictures either, but I like this one because it's a little different from the one above. I gave the sun some time to go down (more pink! although I think this may be due to post processing):

On both sets of images, I changed the temperature because the originals had a weird hue (greenish?), and brightened them because I am a fan of brighter pictures (as long as there is still color).