Photography help

[Catlady711]

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Steve's Digicams

This site was so accurate it told me of a feature on one of my cameras that didn't even show up in my manual!!



BTW, for deeper colors when doing sunsets, rainbows, etc, you can adjust your exposure setting. If your camera has a setting for deliberately under/over exposing (sometimes represented with -/+), set it to UNDERexpose about 1/3 stop. This will bring out the colors better. You may have to experiment with your own camera to find the setting that seems to work best for the lighting you have.

[Catlady711]

Yesterday while waiting in a parking lot for hubby to pick up some stuff, I saw this cool sunset. I happened to have my older camera (Canon A40) with me so I snapped two pix through my windshield just for this thread.


I was focusing on the tree line area near the lower colorful clouds, ISO at 50. The camera was set on automatic and this is how it wanted to take the pix. It certainly didn't show off the actual colors very well because it was trying to find a balance between the bright and dark areas of the pix.







This pix I still left the camera on automatic setting, however I did change only TWO things. The exposure compensation (+/- exp) to -1 and focused on the middle of the sky on the brightest possible area. This was the result and it showed off the colors much better, and made sillohettes(sp?) of the trees.





Just goes to show you it doesn't always take a fancy, expensive camera, or doing anything fancy to get good sunset pix. Sometimes it just takes a very small amount of 'tweaking'.