While I was shooting the Heceta Head Lighthouse from an overlook on the Oregon Coast highway, it was ridiculously easy to turn to my left and shoot the sunset.
At least when the clouds were being fairly cooperative, that is.
When it got to time for the sun to drop that last 15 degrees, it finally dropped below the clouds and then it was time to consume some pixels.
The Heceta Head sunset shots were interspersed with Heceta Head Lighthouse shots – the same conditions that made a beautiful sunset gave me the killer light on the lighthouse, shore and water.
Several different images from those few minutes have made it to the sundowns, sun ups and things in the sky gallery on Laughing Frog Images for your perusal, enjoyment, and purchase.
Is there a trick to getting sunset photos like this? I wish I could say there was, and that I’ll tell it to you for a price, but there really isn’t.
There is, however, the need to be able to adjust your aperture (bigger numbers are better) or shutter speed (higher is better) or both, which isn’t always possible on a point & shoot or smartphone or tablet.
In a nutshell – shoot a bunch, and change your aperture and shutter speed as you shoot. You’re changing your exposure (like I did), which gives you the same subject matter in a number of different images. If your camera/device lets you pick a point in the image for it to adjust/expose to – pick a bunch of different points and fire away. Then, pick what you like and delete the rest.
There. Lesson over.
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