 Sarah Cordes |
exposer for sunsets I've had a lot of trouble with exposing sunsets. All my photographs come out very dark except for the actual sun. I faintly remember being taught to overexpose or underexpose the picture to create the desired light. However, this involves me to focus on the dark part of the picture which unfocuses the sun. Am I doing something completely out of whack? Please help!
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Mark Feldstein |
Kinda sorta Sarah. Take your exposure reading by focusing on and pointing the camera toward something on ground level, something of an average color, preferably 18% gray. Assuming the sun is somewhere in the background, whatever in the foreground is going to be in shadow. Right? I'm guessing cause your pix didn't load, but it would seem that's what's coming out underexposed. Lock that reading into your camera. THEN with that reading locked in, raise your camera to include the actual light source, i.e., the sun, and using that reading you got, take your shot. You don't need to meter for the sun itself unless it's very very low on the horizon, and even then, the better way to do it is once you have that first exposure reading, bracket your exposures a little, say a stop or two in either direction. The other thing you can do is use a neutral density filter although for sunsets, that may be more hassle to you than you find it's worth. Okie dokie?
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Ariel Lepor |
Yeah, the GND filters can help darken the sky so you can better expose the entire picture. You could also photograph for the sky brightness in one photograph, and while keeping the camera stationary, change the exposure (like in manual mode by increasing the shutter speed) for the ground, and combine the photos in photoshop. Remember to use a small aperture (like f/22) and to zoom out to get a great dof. This makes it so the background and foreground are both in focus, although you could focus differently in both pictures and then combine the pictures.
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Samuel Smith |
if your still using that minolta camera listed in your gallery,no manual settings at all.bummer. since it sets everything,your going to get what you say you've been getting. sam
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