Why you shouldn’t pack your camera after sunset
By Megan • Oct 2nd, 2007 • Category: News for Creatives (archives)Chris Nicholson reports for Nicholson Prints:
“A good sunset gives you opportunities to create many types of images: You can use the sunset light to warm the colors of objects on the landscape; you can silhouette objects in front of the setting sun; or you can photograph just the sun, perhaps with dramatic clouds above it. The possibilities are numerous.
But too many photographers then make this mistake: Immediately after the sun rests below the horizon, they pack their gear and leave the scene, thinking of all the wonderful sunset pictures they made. What those photographers are leaving behind are wonderful images they could have made with the light of dusk. Light bouncing off the sky or off clouds can still illuminate the ground enough for you to photograph, and the rapidly changing sky can still be a great background for silhouetted objects. Either way, always stay out shooting until all the light is gone.”
Megan is a creative producer at Wise Elephant.
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