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.