On Aug 10, 2011, at 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
I haven't gone into my LR files to verify this, but IIRC, I have never shot a sunset photo that had more than 1/3 of the sun in the frame. If there is that much sun, then they are just framing shots in preparation. The best sunset pictures are taken 30-60 minutes after the sun has dissappeared behind the horizon. IMHO. I recall on one of my honeymoons I was on a Caribbean island known for spectacular sunsets. We took a taxi to the west end of the island, I carefully framed a series of shots through and over and around an old Spanish fort. And then we left, about 45 minutes after sunset. As we drove away in the taxi, I looked back and saw such color in the clouds as I have never seen before or since. We left about 5 minutes too early. stan -- 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.
