MISSION:

Snapshot Voyager is about my own personal photography journey. I am always looking to try something new, inquisitive as to how it works, and to the end results I might achieve.

Sunday 28 August 2011

Sydney Sunset


There’s one phenomenon of nature that I really miss about living in an apartment and that’s seeing sunrises and sunsets.  When we lived in Sydney our apartment faced north, so we saw both. 


Sunrises and Sunsets are hard to photograph.  Generally, setting the exposure for 2 stops slower than what the camera is metering for produces the correct result.  Ie, if the camera is suggesting to use 1/125th of a second, use 1/500th of a second; or alternatively, if the suggested aperture is f4, use f8 instead.  What you want to achieve is bringing out the colours in the sky, yet retaining shadow detail to give the picture perspective.  The suggested exposure from the camera will give a washed out result.

This shot had the exposure compensation lowered by 1 stop, but I think it is not enough for the sky.  However, any lower would have take all the shadow detail at the bottom of the picture.

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