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Best way to shoot sunset
Sorry, Newbie here.
I want to shoot a sunset but my pics seem to come out way bright. How do you get nice deep colors. KAW |
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Best way to shoot sunset
wrote in message ... Sorry, Newbie here. I want to shoot a sunset but my pics seem to come out way bright. How do you get nice deep colors. KAW Take your meter reading from the sky, not the foreground; try underexposing a bit; and bracket your exposures to see what gives you the results you're looking for. Paul |
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Best way to shoot sunset
wrote in message ... Sorry, Newbie here. I want to shoot a sunset but my pics seem to come out way bright. How do you get nice deep colors. KAW The problem is that your camera wants to see bright and in Auto it adjusts the exposure (aperturte + shutter speed + ISO) to make the image brighter. Also it weighs red less than the other colors in that "bright" label. And lastly the auto white balance will read the abundance of red as a colored light source and adjust to make that "white". So what you need to do is take your camera into manual. Set your ISO to a low number (which number will depend on the camera and current lighting). Next you need to set the white balance to daylight. Then you need to manually set a shutter and f-stop. I have taken many nice (and a few total garbage) sun-up/sun-down images. I set my camera to ISO 200-400 and WB to daylight, open the aperture as wide as possible. Then I take one image letting the camera choose the shutter speed. It WILL be wrong. I then shoot a series of photos with each being one step faster than the last. It will probably take 3 or 4 shots to find one that is right. Once I have found the right settings I can then lock the camera to those settings and snap away. One thing that I have found is that broad colored sky images never look good using a wide angle lens (it minimizes the impact) and on tele you miss the grand sweep. So I set my camera to aproximately "normal" (for my camera that woud be about 33mm) and shoot a series of overlapping images (about 50% overlap is good) in horizontal rows with multiple rows until I have covered as much of the sky as I can (sometimes as much as 180 deg horiz and 90 deg vert). I then use one of the pano stitching programs to put it together. You just need to snap these pano images as quick as possible as the clouds will be moving and if you take too long, the stitch will not work well. BTW I find that if you can get a silouetted horizon (or trees/houses/etc) along the bottom edge it seems to give the image more impact. Randy |
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Best way to shoot sunset
The fastest way to get nice effect:
Diirect your lens to sun and than push the shutter (let the camera sets parameters when sun and bright heaven are in the center of frame). That's all. Martin Best Regards www.gorgolewski.com Uzytkownik napisal w wiadomosci ... Sorry, Newbie here. I want to shoot a sunset but my pics seem to come out way bright. How do you get nice deep colors. KAW |
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Best way to shoot sunset
"Marcin" wrote in message ... The fastest way to get nice effect: Diirect your lens to sun and than push the shutter (let the camera sets parameters when sun and bright heaven are in the center of frame). That's all. Martin Best Regards True when you have that option. But I have found that many of the most impressive sky conditions are when the sun is just below the horizon. The light is shining on the clouds but the ground features are still in shadow. Also be careful when aiming the camera directly at the sun. Within moments of clearing the horizon the light can be intense enough to burn the camera sensor and if you are using a direct view finder you can even burn your retina as the lens in the finder (or through the lens in an SLR) can be magnified enough to do permanent damage to your eye. Randy |
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Best way to shoot sunset
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... Sorry, Newbie here. I want to shoot a sunset but my pics seem to come out way bright. How do you get nice deep colors. set ISO to the lowest put your camera in manual mode set focus to infinity shoot one photo at each exposure setting also change the white balance to different mode and shoot a bunch at each setting what you cannot control is when there is deep color in the sky for that, you need to have patience, or luck you can use photoshop to increase color saturation |
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Best way to shoot sunset
Randy Berbaum wrote:
wrote in message ... Sorry, Newbie here. I want to shoot a sunset but my pics seem to come out way bright. How do you get nice deep colors. KAW The problem is that your camera wants to see bright and in Auto it adjusts the exposure (aperturte + shutter speed + ISO) to make the image brighter. Also it weighs red less than the other colors in that "bright" label. And lastly the auto white balance will read the abundance of red as a colored light source and adjust to make that "white". So what you need to do is take your camera into manual. Set your ISO to a low number (which number will depend on the camera and current lighting). Next you need to set the white balance to daylight. Then you need to manually set a shutter and f-stop. snip If your camera doesn't let you switch to manual settings, see if there is a setting that lets you make the automatic setting lighter or darker. If there is, set it to darker. |
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