I've used a spotmeter when photographing sunsets, and taken my reading from the spot where I wanted the color density to be approximately that of 18% gray, usually right next to the ball. That retains the color. However, your foreground will be dark. The solution to that is HDR or multiple exposures, as others have noted. Paul
On Aug 11, 2011, at 12:08 AM, Stan Halpin wrote: > > 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. -- 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.
