Our stormy weather of late has produced some fabulous clouds. The day that the storm breaks us is the classic time to get the best scenic photos, and the golden light of the last hour of the day caught me struggling with rush hour traffic on the way back over the hill from Hollywood. There really aren't a lot of special tricks to getting good sunset pictures. Just basic fundamentals. If you're looking into the sun, your optics better be nice and clean, just like your windshield needs to be for a sunset commute. Watch your shutter speed, and be ready to put your camera on a tripod once the light levels go down. I like to shoot sunsets using aperture priority and the right amount of exposure compensation. Digital cameras make it so much easier than the old days of film. Take a test shot, check the histogram to make sure you're not running off either end of the scale, and then fire away. This sunset shot was made using a gradient filter that reduced the amount of light hitting the bottom portion of the image, which gave me the little bit of foreground detail I was looking for. Like many landscape images, previsualization helps you be able to make a picture that caputures the feeling of the event as you see it in your mind's eye.
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