On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: > > Jens - I think Stan gave the very best advice... I was a bit flip responding > with my underexposing comment.. which is just "Expose for the highlights" > anyway. The other thing is, of course, no one should be looking directly at > the sun, ever. though it is hard to resist sometimes. >
Okay, seriously now :-) The difficulty of shooting sunsets/sunrise is the wide exposure range between the sun and the surrounding details. I have long ago learned not to attempt to get everything unless you want to HDR-to-death the photo. In the case of Jens' photo which is a wide shot with all the foreground details, I would have hid the sun behind a cloud or waited for it to go just below the horizon. Besides, in terms of the bigger picture, the sun is so small anyway that color may not be noticeable. Otherwise, zoom in and make the sun the main subject (as in the 'polluted' photo I earlier referred to), get the color and silhouette everything else. -- Bong Manayon http://bong.manayon.net -- 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.
