Tommy Schultz explains how to take your sunset photography from ordinary to extraordinary. Let’s take a look…

 

The sunset such a popular subject, the problem is that those images rarely live up to reality. More often then not, the image simply doesn’t look as good as it did at the time.  Frustrating right? Well, as photographer Tommy Schultz explains, our eyes can see a much larger range of light then what your camera can see. For this reason, we start running into all sorts of problems when photographing the sunset, probably the most common being that you have difficulty balancing your foreground with the sky. So how do we transform our sunset landscape images from ordinary, to extraordinary? The truth is there’s many different options and little tricks that will help you improve your sunset images, one of the most popular however is the use of a graduated ND filter to help you capture the mix of reds, yellows and oranges in the evening sky. Let’s take a look as Tommy explains…