Sunsets

[cchoc]

I really like the first one Beau, although both are great shots.

 

[FLYFISHEXPERT]

Thank you Charlie! I really like your Mojave photo, the depth in the clouds ins outstanding!

 

[Tucson T4R]

From Point Sublime

 

[FLYFISHEXPERT]

well done Brad!!! :bowdown:

 

[DorB]

my cont'

 

[MojaveKJ]

Somwhere in Utah, 2004.

 

[Every Miles A Memory]

Camped on Bull Shoals Lake. The wife enjoying a sunset with her little dog

Me, enjoying it with the wife :sombrero:

The other dog contemplating how he'll get his next bone or what ever it is Dogs dream about as they watch the sunset

 

[FLYFISHEXPERT]

Okay, so what is everybody using for metering when taking their sunset photos?

 

[Tucson T4R]

I shoot mostly in Aperture Priority so I just let the camera do the metering for exposure. For landscapes and sunrise/sunset shots I take a bracket of 3 exposures. 1 just barely over exposed and the other 2 under exposed. One of those will usually nail it. If I want to capture the star burst across the horizon I crank my aperture to F22. But I only do that as the sun is crossing the horizon, then back to whatever F stop I was shooting with for the scene.

 

[Every Miles A Memory]

I'm with Brad, I meter for the scene since they're all different. I almost always take one with a mid-range fstop to see how it looks, then one with a super high fstop to get the starburst

I almost always have my off-camera flash on so I can pop a burst of light to see the foreground

 

[Tucson T4R]

I'm with Brad, I meter for the scene since they're all different. I almost always take one with a mid-range fstop to see how it looks, then one with a super high fstop to get the starburst

I almost always have my off-camera flash on so I can pop a burst of light to see the foreground

Good point on the off camera flash. I can think of several sunset shots I've taken that would have been better if the foreground had a little "assistance".

 

[FLYFISHEXPERT]

I'm with Brad, I meter for the scene since they're all different. I almost always take one with a mid-range fstop to see how it looks, then one with a super high fstop to get the starburst

I almost always have my off-camera flash on so I can pop a burst of light to see the foreground

Great ideas, thanks!

 

[Every Miles A Memory]

So many people ask why I'm using my flash while taking photos of the Sunset, but when I show them, they ask "Oh Wow!! Can you show me how to set my camera up like that!"

It's pretty simple, and once I show them, they're so impressed with the results

 

[XploreBaja]

Another shot of the many I have from the Baja Peninsula...it never gets old!

 

[Tucson T4R]

It's hard to beat a Baja sunset.

If you reposition yourself to kick the ocotillo over to the left a bit so the reflected sun on the water was unobstructed it would kick the image up a notch.

Still very nice as it is. :victory: