Advice some one gave me a number of years ago, Mark Roberts or Paul S.,?? said to spot meter just off to the side of the sun sort of in the hazy area and that would get me close, and it does. At GFM a few years ago i took one shot that way, and then adjusted the Tv and Av were needed. Justa tweak was all.
Dave On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Jack Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- 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.
