All good advice! Shoot when the sun is behind a cloud.(obvious) I don't think of a sunset including a naked sun accept when virtually on the horizon wherein atmospheric conditions filter it to a giant orange ball. D-Range "on" does help..some.
Jack --- On Wed, 8/10/11, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Bruce Walker <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Photographing sunsets - help wanted > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2011, 8:13 AM > 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 > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
