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Hi! Y’all! Last night I was experimenting with my new tripod, and this is a couple of the pictures I got! Any thoughts?
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Tripods are awesome for sunsets! It’s the only way you’ll get starbursts in low light situations too.
The first shot is really underexposed. Underexposing sunset pictures does help to pull out color in the sky (like in your second shot), but when most of the sky is black, you know it’s too underexposed. If you like the underexposed look, try zooming in really close to the sun and fill most of the frame with sky that actually has some color in it.
In the second shot, the sky looks unnaturally purple. Warm up the white balance. Also, in my opinion, the way the hand is sticking into the frame looks more like a mistake than a creative touch. Maybe hands cupped to hold the sun, or fingers pinched to do the same.
The sky would have made for a nice landscape shot, maybe using the tree on the right as a nice framing element.
Ok! Good to know! Thank you for your tips! The top shot originally was an accident, but I kinda liked it, I actually edited to make it darker, but I can play with it! 🙂 I’m attaching another couple pics that I got. On the bottom one, the starburst didn’t work as well, I guess because it was super cloudy.
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Creative. Beautiful starburst. What lens are you using?
As someone who loves landscape photos, I do like the last one the best. It’s great that you got any starburst at all with the clouds like they are! Would like to see more “goldeness” in the grass if it was brighter probably. That looks like a beautiful place.
Thank you for your comments! I was using the 18mm-55mm kit lens. That is our pasture, so I have a great place to take sunset pics!
Glad to know the 18-55mm makes nice sunbursts. I didn’t know much about how to create sunbursts back when I had that lens. Now I use the 50mm f/1.8 to create starbursts if that’s what I’m shooting for. It makes amazing sunbursts!
@jinnyschober, I really liked your sunset pictures, especially the last one you posted. I noticed you had lens flares on them, a problem that I had encountered when I took my own sunset photos. However, I learned to correct this problem by applying GIMP’s clone tool. The following link will give you tips on clearing up the lens flares: https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/shooting-in-new-zealand/.
The trees in the last picture formed a nice background to the landscape. Just a thought: for interesting background elements, you may want to include in your pictures any livestock you may have on the pasture.
Will definitely have to experiment with cloning the lens flair. Although I don’t have GIMP, I have Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, which you can clone things there too! That’s a good idea with the animals. We just have one horse, and she’s not the most cooperative, specially around sunset, because that’s meal time and she stays near the fence. 🙂
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