You can get the sun to be yellow or orange in one shot if you are willing to sacrifice detail in the land. The sun is sooo much brighter than anything else in the frame, and the land will be back lit. So, you either choose to have the sun and the rich colors, or you have the land and blown out sky.
I typically meter to the side of the sun to get the sky where I want it. There is no detail in the sun at all, and you simply want it to be a pleasing color. The sky is where the real drama and detail is. You can do HDR to get both the sky and land if you like. On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Jens <[email protected]> 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 > -- > Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. > > On > -- > 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. > -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- 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.
