Kamote Gallery | 5 Simple Tips in Sunset Photography

5 Sunset Photography Tips

Kamote Gallery | 5 Simple Tips in Sunset Photograhy

Do you love photography? Kamote Photography has something for you!

1. Set the Camera Settings
By now, you should already have some basic knowledge about the shutter speed, aperture and ISO. If you can control them, you can control the light going to your sensor, which is crucial at sunset photography.

Shutter Speed – Slow speeds won’t work, anything above 1/500 will. Generally speaking, best setting you might apply is 1/5000 for shutter speed.
Aperture – The size doesn't really matter, but to get less flare and other problems, make sure to stop a little bit and not shoot at the widest possible aperture. Example is f/8 – f/22.
ISO – Always have it at ISO 100 (or lowest speed). The sun is warm and heats the sensor, and heat makes your images noisier. You’d be better of by choosing a slower shutter speed or larger aperture.
Auto Focus – Most of the time, auto focus will do just fine but if your sunset picture has no objects and only the sky, it may hunt a bit. Simply switch over to Manual Focus and rotate that ring until it’s sharp.



2. Know The Weather Report
If the sunset occurs at 5.59 pm, then it possible to happen next day at exact time. Be get ready and arrive 20-30 minutes before the sunset time. just to make sure you don't miss a thing.
Also, look outside at the clouds and their direction, you’ll soon see you will be very good at knowing what the weather will be like!

3. Be Patient
Experiment with different positions and make sure to get a shot in vertical and horizontal style. Take your time, sunsets are long and you can take plenty of pictures in the mean time. Some will have too much flare, some won’t be straight, then others have no rich colors. I usually take 5 – 20 pictures of every beautiful sunset and less if it’s an usual one.

4. Include Objects to the Scene

Simple picture of the sun sometimes may be a bit boring. That’s why you should also try to include an object inside of the frame, like a animals, trees or even a person. Anything to make it more unique. You may also want to experiment with silhouettes.




5. Look Around

For sure, your focus is only sunset, but you might turn your head and watch every angle in your current position, you might get something unexpected scenes. You might capture very cool crazy colors of cloud lightened by the sun. Focus of the subject is commonly at the center, but you might try different positions of the focus, left, right. You might get the best shots.