First time shooting a sunset

AirThom

I've taken shots of people and animals around sunset but never really taken any of landscapes. I found a nice stretch of farms just north of my house they had a really cool looking tree. I messed with some PP settings too in a couple of them.

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JustPlainMe

They are all nice, but I like #2 the best. The sun is more subtle and the black silhouette of the trees is very dramatic. Good work!

AirThom

JustPlainMe wrote:

They are all nice, but I like #2 the best. The sun is more subtle and the black silhouette of the trees is very dramatic. Good work!

Thanks! It's my wife's favorite as well, and I like to think she has great taste.

Looking at them again, I just realized I borked my new watermark... I either wanted the name (Solar Flare Photography) OR the website (solarflarephoto.com) and I ended up with a conglomeration that if someone tries to go to will do nothing for them. HA. I'll have to redo that when I get home.

*Fixed WM

Art Scott

I likethe orientation of 1 the best but 2 and 3 are great beautiful shots also.

Are you bracketing your shots, so you can see what happens at a few stops either way of what the camera says is correct exposure. To bracket, you either need to set the camera to bracket or switch over to manual and shoot a few stops up and down from the point the camera callled correct exposure.

AirThom

Art Scott wrote:

I likethe orientation of 1 the best but 2 and 3 are great beautiful shots also.

Are you bracketing your shots, so you can see what happens at a few stops either way of what the camera says is correct exposure. To bracket, you either need to set the camera to bracket or switch over to manual and shoot a few stops up and down from the point the camera callled correct exposure.

The d60 doesn't have it built-in, so I SHOULD be doing it manually... in this instance I did not though. Thank you for reminding me to do it, I need to start making it a part of my process. Until I can afford the jump up to the cameras with more built-ins.

Art Scott

AirThom wrote:

The d60 doesn't have it built-in, so I SHOULD be doing it manually... in this instance I did not though. Thank you for reminding me to do it, I need to start making it a part of my process. Until I can afford the jump up to the cameras with more built-ins.

it is built in on mine and i still just go to manual mode and do from there.......but I still shoot in manual or AP 99.9% of the time......can't claim 100% because I will venture inot to "P" once in a great while just to see how cam does in a specific conditions (low light, mixed low lighting...etc).....

The more you learn to do on your own (without built ins) the more consistent you'll become at getting very good photos and then when you do move up to more bells and whistles, you will be able top easily compensate if the cams computer fibs to you........