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Sunset photos
- Lumiss
- Oct 23, 2019
- 3 min read
Hey guys! Welcome to another post!
Today I'm going to be giving you a few tips about sunset photos taken in a town or area with a few buildings and showing you a few examples of a sunset that I have captured in a few photos.
So the first tip I am going to give you is to always take loads of photos. I have a setting on my phone where it'll take 100 photos, each one less than a second apart, so that then I can choose which ones I like and which ones I don't. You would have to change angle while doing it and it's great for taking a photo of plants while it's windy, or something fleeting that you want that specific angle and moment. I didn't use the setting while taking these photos but I did change angle and place from where I was taking the photo.
The second tip would be to not worry if the photo is not perfect, sometimes imperfection is what makes a photo perfect and interesting. As you can see in this photo, there was a group of friends just crossing the road. I did not want there to be people or cars in the photo but I was at the angle I wanted for the sun to be in so I took my opportunity thinking I would later crop it but I found that the group of friends made the photo look more natural.
So don't worry about making mistakes or doing things that you are not expecting to do because you might just end up liking it better that way.
My third tip to you in not to be scared about putting something in front of what you are focusing on, as long as you do it properly it should make the photo even better. What I mean by this is that if what is in front covers your image too much people will be looking at that instead of what you intend them to see. As you can see, I have a few branches and leaves in front of the sun, but the sun is still the first thing you see when looking at the photo, then the tree, the road, the van, the houses or whatever you notice after. The point is that the sun is clearly the most important thing in this photo.
Another thing you might want to avoid, which I always try to avoid, is making anything blurry in the front of the photo. I believe that it is really hard to take a photo with something blurry in it and it not look like an unfortunate mistake that shouldn't be there. I have seen people who think that putting something blurry in front makes it look professional, but they did not have anything to focus on in the background and all I could really see was that really close blurry plant. Also, my friend had a photography shoot recently and her boyfriend (the one taking the photos) decided to take a photo of her under a tree and made her blurry. I asked her about it and she said he wanted to focus on the tree. In my opinion, he should have focused the camera on her, especially since it was quite dark and you could barely see the tree anyway.
My fourth tip isn't as important as the previous ones but it's a nice addition to a photo.
When taking a photo of the sun, you don't have to avoid the little reflections the light makes, I believe it makes the photo look more professional.
When taking a photo with a reflection you don't want it to be in any 90 degree angle, it just makes it look very intended, having it about 20 degrees from a the vertical line like I have done in this photo makes it look straight but not entirely straight. Having it going up the way would probably look good but it's not a way that I even take it.
My last tip for this post is taking a photo with buildings. The sun doesn't have to be above the building because, as I said before, you can put things in front and still have it as the main focus. Although on this photo the focus is on the sun and the sky together, the buildings are used more to give a bit of shadow to the photo. If it were just a picture of the sky with the sun and clouds it gets quite boring. It's good to add a bit of colour, light and shadows. This makes the photo complete. If you are able to tip your device, you'll see everything getting darker but the sun, it'll work turning the brightness down but not as well.
I'll be making more post like this in the future.
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