vacation photography tips continued (sunsets, how to)

Continuing on my vacation photo tips is, how to shoot a sunset. As you might have guesed the baby is taking her afternoon nap;-)

If your sunsets arent coming out colorfull enough you are probably overexposing them. Try zooming in on the brghter parts of the sunset in P modeand see what the exposure reads. Then use M mode to dial in those settings and see how you like it. I also like to take sunset pics a while after the sungoes down,just keeptaking shots and the colors will get more saturated about 5 -10 minutes after the actual sunset.

Another trick is to include some silouetts in the scene to add extra interest like the example above. I shot this about 45 minutes after sunset hand hald in P mode. I focused on the tree, but this late after the sunset the sky's colors arent ascontrasty so your images are easier to get the right exposure for. If you want people in the shot I'd shoot the scene in P mode, switch to M mode and dial in the P modes exposure info, and then add a flash to capture the peoples faces.

Cheers! Soren
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