Somebody please help!
I am trying so hard to capture the beauty of the sun going down in the mountains and I am just not getting it. Hints please.
I put in a foreground - which I am pleased with - but cannot capture the infinity of the mountains.
I always find sunsets are better if there are some clouds in the sky. This is a lovely photo regardless, but clouds seem to make the sky colours more prominent.
I couldn't improve this beauty, Cathy! You have such lovely layers of color there .... and a gorgeous pov. Sometimes I just play around with the aperture and iso, but it doesn't always help. This one of yours is a keeper. For sure!
P.S. You really got me thinking....so I checked your exif info and see that you used a wide angel which has the effect of making the foreground (the roadside) look much larger than the background (the mountains). A zoom lens has the opposite effect so maybe you can try that and see what you come up with?
Have you got an option on your camera - often called "landscape" - an option for distant mountains etc? This is a very soft lighting here and crisp images require good light - I think it is lovely the way it is!
@vskolnik What is wrong with using a wide "angel"?! ;~}
I think this is a lovely shot too,Cathy. Sometimes When I want a little more color I use a faster shutter speed ! don't know why that works for me so maybe my advice is not that good.
@onie We had nothing but clouds all day - but I'll remember that. @vskolnik Thanks Vee. And I had the wide angle on and the zoom this evening. Every tip helps - I so appreciate your trying. @cindymc The mountains here are just that. @hollandcrew This is the Blue Ridge in North Carolina. @leananiemand Thanks Leana. @maggiemae I do. And I used about every one tonight and ended up in manual.
@grammyn Nothing is wrong with wide angle... I'm just suggesting that the alternative (a zoom lens) might (emphasis on "might" since I'm an amateur) might produce a result that is closer to what was envisioned? She asked for hints so I was trying to be helpful:)
@vskolnik Vee! Read it carefully . I said angEL like you posted at first! I was joking with you.Sorry! ;~} I wouldn't presume to question your knowledge because I know so very little , really!
This is beautiful! I've been playing around with a setting on my camera under picture styles called "faithful" - it seems to make the warmer tones pop. I'll have to try the setting @maggiemae suggested, too! Good discussion!!
My first thought when I read your post was "move the mountains- they always get in the way of my sunsets here too." But then I realized that was not what you meant- lol! I couldn't really offer any suggestions other than a little less foreground but that is so subjective and this one is fine, so my conclusion is, it's a lovely shot as is!
Cathy, I think this is a beautiful sunset.I love the layers. Some of the spectacular sunsets always involve water and lost of clouds. sometimes that is not what you have in front of you. This is still lovely.
I think you captured it so nicely! the colors are so great! I am just learning this myself, but I read that for landscape shots to get the most of the farthest part, you need to shoot at f22...but when it is dark like sunrise, that does not work for me some of the time...even on a tripod. But I thought I would just toss that out there anyway. Really, I am not trying to be a know it all, because I don't know much!
Can't help you at all, I've done the same myself, although I was taking some shots one night with a girlfiend and her sunset looked so very much better than mine with a telephoto lens........really superior
This is a lovely shot. I really love the colours.
You've got some good advice too.
I'd go with trying a longer focal length - I found it a bit counter-intuitive, but all my fav mountain shots from Scotland were taken with my 75-300mm. It not only 'gets closer', but compresses them together.
And as some one's also mentioned, "clouds make the sunset" (one of my favourite cheer-myself-up sayings too). :)
Don't think the problem is with the lens at all. The sky has a lot of light while the land is receiving much less light. A gradient filter, to slow down the amount of light reaching your sensor and a longer shutter might solve the problem. Good luck !
I think it's lovely, I wouldn't change a thing and love the feeling that you've just seen this from the road in the distance.
If you wanted more sunset, perhaps if you cropped it into a panoramic shot you'd get more of the sunset colours in the centre with less dark so it's more prominent? Also recently I was playing around and actually took a shot of the sunset on macro setting then one zooming right in, and was amazed at the colours I got. What a joy, to play around with a gorgeous given sunset! :)
I think this is a lovely shot too,Cathy. Sometimes When I want a little more color I use a faster shutter speed ! don't know why that works for me so maybe my advice is not that good.
@vskolnik Thanks Vee. And I had the wide angle on and the zoom this evening. Every tip helps - I so appreciate your trying.
@cindymc The mountains here are just that.
@hollandcrew This is the Blue Ridge in North Carolina.
@leananiemand Thanks Leana.
@maggiemae I do. And I used about every one tonight and ended up in manual.
You've got some good advice too.
I'd go with trying a longer focal length - I found it a bit counter-intuitive, but all my fav mountain shots from Scotland were taken with my 75-300mm. It not only 'gets closer', but compresses them together.
And as some one's also mentioned, "clouds make the sunset" (one of my favourite cheer-myself-up sayings too). :)
If you wanted more sunset, perhaps if you cropped it into a panoramic shot you'd get more of the sunset colours in the centre with less dark so it's more prominent? Also recently I was playing around and actually took a shot of the sunset on macro setting then one zooming right in, and was amazed at the colours I got. What a joy, to play around with a gorgeous given sunset! :)