sun was like fireball in sky when i take this but comes out looking like soft pink. i dunno what i did wrong. i make experiments. how i capture fireball sun? focus below sun? no filters used here. sometimes i use filters sometimes not. thankx.

hi Sheila ! do underexpose -1. or use a center spot field for exposure. you can make 2 shots, one like yours and one underexposed. after this you can mix it in photoshop. maybe this will get the best result. ********* HUGZ ********* gerhard

duh....ok...yeah i guess i didn't set exposure time on this one. thanks gerhard!!! hugz!!!

As Gerhard said the sky often benefits from slight underexposure... but what also happens is your foreground will also be underexposed and darker than it should be. This is a common issue with landscape photography and as Gerhard pointed out you can bracket your shots and then place them together in an editing program. Another way to deal with this is a split neutral density filter...... it's a graduated filter that goes from dark to clear.... it allows you to give proper exposure to the foreground and hold back light from the sky at the same time. Neutral density filters come in different strengths or stops (that work again!) and it's a common and popular tool of landscape photographers.

Not quite the same I know. This was done using 2 exposures and a ND grad as the sky was too bright even for the ND grad filter that I had. This is just a quicky and not perfect Image one exposed for sky.

Exposed for land

Used sky from image 1 select and layered into image two.

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=645424

Usually photographing sunrises and sunsets requires adapting exposure-times. When the sun appears at the horizon it's usually soft-colored and exposure-times need to be adapted up to -1. When the sun is getting brighter you go through 0 up to +1 and higher and brighter to +2 and even further. Not easy. [Hinds watching sunrise](http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=646655) made me shoot this one with about +0.5. Rule is adapting the contrasts. When the sun is less bright than the sky the sky is too bright and your cam will try to compensate for that, overexposing your sun. When the sun is brighter (always except sunlight that is diminished by clouds or the sky at sunrise) the sky is less bright than the sun and your cam will try to compensate for that, underexposing your sun. In the first case you need to underexpose, in the last case to overexpose. In fact you need to compensate the 'compensating behaivour of your cam'. I hope these things once will learn how to shoot a sunrise without having to think too much about the technical aspects. I have a dream.... Attached link is a sunset that needed to be underexposed a bit.

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=813642&Start=1&Artist=UKmac&ByArtist=Yes

I allways find this a hard one to do. So I set the camera to take three shots at once, -1/3 , 0, +1/3. Usually works but not allways. The attacheed link was with -1/3. The landscape is slightly dull, but experimenting when I can

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Snow and sun, that makes me overexpose sometimes up to +2. Very bright light that makes me wear sunglasses (and the cam does it in its own way).

sorry for delay in responding. i lost internet connect 7 times...i tried writing response to this 5 times...sigh. ok...here we go again. Michelle & Simon...thanks so much!! i do use filters. neutral density. gradient filter. and polarizing filter. my new sony has a landscape setting. u think this would help alleviate some of the problems Simon was showing??? and Simon...thanks for showing me. seeing examples helps a lot! i have hardly done any layering...just a few times. i don't enjoy it. i think i might...once i get the hang of it more. and jc & UKmac...thank you guys for showing me too!!! it helps a lot to see. jc, Thanks!!...well u know about my learning disability with math...my problem with numbers. i can never remember settings. i can't keep numbers straight in my head. and also, well...you know my memory problems. hehe...me and my problems. anyway, i just always experiment with exposure times. UKmac...interesting how u set cam to take three shots at once. hmmm...makes me think...with this new cam i think i can program settings. maybe that will help me. i sure do appreciate all the help on this guys!!!!! hugz! sheila