You must have seen great photos at sunset and wonder how people get them. In this article I will tell you how to achieve this effect.
1. The first thing you need to do is find out when the sun is going to set on that particular day. Then you will want to find your spot. Finding the spot is entirely up to you. Many people like a beach setting, but anywhere that you can see the sunset is a good place to start. The place really depends on your style. So choose your location wisely.
2. Now we get into the technical part. You are going to want to set you camera on manual for this. It should be the M on the dial. If you are unfamiliar with using the manual setting I highly recommend looking through the manual and reading up on the setting of your camera.
3. Now remember in most sunset photos we are trying to capture the beautiful sky. So that is what you will expose for. So using your camera's meter find a spot that is next to the sun and has only sky. Set your exposure to that spot.
Now you have exposed properly for the sky. You will now want set your exposure compensation to be a little under exposed.The exposure compensation button is the one that has a +/- symbol. by pressing it and holding it with some models it allows you to adjust the meter that is in the photo here.
4. Now you can compose the shot. This once again is up to you. I am not going to give you rules as to where to put what in the photo. Namely because some of the best photos i have seen have broken the rules in photography. But i will say that horizon lines in the center of the image tend to be boring and so does the sun being in the middle of the image. So I would stay away from that. Composing the shot to enhance what you are looking for is you best bet. If your focus is the sky, make that take up most of the frame. If there is an interesting thing in the foreground you want make sure you make that prominent.
5. Snap your photo. and use the exposure compensation to bracket and create several different exposures and choose your favorite one.
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