•Most importantly how so we avoid flares?
Ok Folks
I am wanting know the trick how people take good sunset.
Where do you focus on
What Mode do you use i.e. M or A or what ever
Do you under expose to get the right highlight of the sky?
Most importantly how so we avoid flares?
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After looking at your profile, I see that your gear will react very
differently to mine in this, as yours is known to be more prone
to suffer from this parasitic effect.
The simple approach to sunset is to STTR and keep the ISO to
the lower nominal / native value.
Sunrise or sunset I use pretty much the same technique.
There are really no tricks, just lots of practice.
#1 I always shoot raw as it gives me more control when post processing
#2 Nowdays - depending on the scene I will either be in aperture priority (with some exposure compensation dilaed in if needed) with the aperture set around F8-F11 (for the more simple scenes) or in manual exposure mode when I think the light meter will be fooled by the light or I am using ND grads (to control the contrast).
#3 ISO will be set to the lowest value that will give me the exposure thet I want
#4 A tripod , and a remote relase give me a lot more exposure options.
#5 I will normall focus about 1/3 the waay into the scene or on most important element in the scene. Manual focus if need be.
#5 No unwanted filters on the lens, to reduce flare.
#6 Use a lens hood if possibe, to reduce flare
#7 Shade the front of the lens, if needed, to reduce flare.
#8 Use the histogram as a guide.
Here are some examples:
#1 Dawn. 3 stop ND grad and a triopd was used.
The photographer by Richard Taylor, on Flickr
#2 Sunset - Hand held
Sunset at Newcastle (1) by Richard Taylor, on Flickr
#3 Dawn - A tripod was used.
Toronto sunrise - 7:18am by Richard Taylor, on Flickr
•Sorry I have updated my Profile as it was old... I own a Sony A7ii
Sorry I have updated my Profile as it was old... I own a Sony A7ii
Thanks some lovely images there was much processing done on those.. I reckon the Fishing one has a bit of tweaking? Am I expecting too much out of my camera and not thinking about processing skills?
Not if you control the contrast by using ND grads.But getting the exposure correct for sky or foreground as this the hard bit with sunset?
How was that soocThe other alternative in high cotrast scenes is to change your "focus" on what you want to capture.
This is another dawn shoot and I thought the sky was almost enough to "make" the picture along with some silhouettes. Notice the sun is not in the image.
#5 Hand held - no filters.
Not a good morning for surfing by Richard Taylor, on Flickr
my first time shooting a sunrise this morning does a polariser help much? Was wondering what the difference would be?
I really like #1 and #3 well captured! What tents are those? I've never seen a thing like that before, it almost looks like a bit enclosed bivi. Would you mind sharing the location and purpose of trip? I'm just being nosey because I love the mountains and wild camping!A couple of attempts from last weekend using a number of methods above plus tilt shift that helped with the low light and creating panoramas. Camped over night and although it clouded over at sunset thankfully the sky cleared shortly before dawn:
1. Campsite
PS3A7769 by Good Lux Photos, on Flickr
2. Before dawn
PS3A7821-Pano-Edit-Edit by Good Lux Photos, on Flickr
3. Sunrise
PS3A7895-Edit-Edit by Good Lux Photos, on Flickr
I really like #1 and #3 well captured! What tents are those? I've never seen a thing like that before, it almost looks like a bit enclosed bivi. Would you mind sharing the location and purpose of trip? I'm just being nosey because I love the mountains and wild camping!
Looks like an incredible location! I went to Switzerland for the first time in January and I loved it, but unfortunately didn't get up to anything as exciting as you. I just had a look at those bivi's and they look awesome, but so expensive!Glad you like! They are bivis, it's the Polarmond sleep system http://www.polarmond.ch/en/home-page good to -30 C. Location is above St Moritz in Switzerland, very remote and no phone signal.
I now use live view and adjust exposure with the EC dial to get the effect I want. Spotlessly clean front element keeps flare to a minimum even with the Sun in shot. If shooting with a camera that doesn't do LV, I generally dial in 1 1/2 stops of underexposure and use full frame metering. A quick chimp to check and reshoot if necessary.
Actually I make it an equal split Richard 3 with 3 withoutNot if you control the contrast by using ND grads.
Another alternative may be to consider using HDR techniques, however this is not so good for moving subjects, will require a bit more post processig, and it can be a bit easy to go "over the top" if you are not careful
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#1 TMost of these guys are using ND grads (they are shooting a sunrise)
Photographers by Richard Taylor, on Flickr
You have all the technique comments here Andrew but the same rules applies with any landscape composition you need a focal point, not just the sunset else you will end up with ABS (another bl**dy sunset).