Sunrise/sunset pic advice?

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bunger

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I know there are a ton of "how to" articles all over regarding this topic, but I am curious how people are taking them with their d7000.

i am new to it and my foreground objects (that is, anything but the sky) are extremely dark to black. I am trying manual mode with an ISo around 100... Am thinking it has something to do with metering and exposure lock, but am not versed enough to know for certain.

thanks in advance!
bill
 
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stmv

Senior Member
Aim the camera in the opposite direction of the sunset, and on tripod, take longer exposures, and you can get some wonderful pictures with awesome light, and you will see beautiful shades of color in the sky, reflected off objects/landscapes. Anybody can take a sunset picture, try using the light for its best purposes, lighting up beautiful compositions... as they say,, its the light.
 
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pedroj

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When I do sunrise/sunset if there is any close by foreground that I want in the image I flash it with the on board flash

Shoot in raw the you can bring out detail that are hidden in the shadows/blacks..

This image was very dark on the river flats....
 

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mashburn

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I hate metering when the lighting is low. (sunrise/sunset for example). I just have to play with it until I get the look I want on my camera. one thing that has started to help me is the graph chart that comes up after you take the picture.

just curious are you trying to take a direct shot of the sun or are you taking the shot with the sun behind you?
 
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eurotrash

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Sometimes I spot meter on the foreground object instead. (Though, this will more than likely overexpose the sky/sun.) What I usually do is take a metered exposure on a spot just away from the sun and lock exposure there. Then, i'll shoot mirror up on a tripod with a 2 second delay, and most often i'll get the look I'm going for. Sometimes that silhouette thing can be cool too though. It's all about experimenting. If you really need everything to be exposed properly for whatever reason, try some post processing HDR trickery:


Sunset by stupidphotoguy, on Flickr
 
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pedroj

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Another thing I do is take two images, one of the clouds and another of the darker areas, then put them one on top of the other then rub out the bits I don't like....
 
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