On 11-08-10 10:52 AM, Jens wrote:
Hello all you clever people
When photographing a sunset (one of the two most popular photographic subjects
- sunsets and women) I always get disappointed as my photographs come out,
showing a white sun! I guess most people actually see the sun as red, orange or
yellow, as the sun is setting. I wish someone would come up with an easy way of
avoiding these white sun sunsets.
I have tried to alter this image in Photoshop - not very successfully, I´m
afraid:
http://www.locr.com/photo-sweden-j%C3%B6nk%C3%B6ping-norra-kyrkogr%C3%A4nd-2-14222554
Regards
Jens
Basically to avoid a white sun, avoid blowing it out. You need to keep
the exposure level low enough to keep the bright sun from clipping.
At a glance, I'd say this is a tricky shot to do this with as you need
to balance two extremes: the high light levels from the sun, and the
relatively low light levels from the landscape. You probably exposed for
the landscape (eg matrix metering) and the sun simply blew out to white.
Two solutions: use HDR techniques (ok, who is now holding their fingers
in the shape of a cross?);
use a neutral-density gradient filter.
Third solution, avoid this kind of scene. :) Wait for the sun to get
even closer to the horizon on a day when there are clouds partially
covering it, then shoot a narrower field of view, and/or include simple
silhouettes in the shot so the fact they're all black doesn't matter.
-bmw
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