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... Sun going down.

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Well that was quick.
/thread

But what happens in between remains a mystery.

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>tfw I can take better photos with my crap Japanese tourist camera
nice try op

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>>2691217
>tfw you think that actually looks good

i feel bad for you anon

>>2691285

It looks fine

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>>2690919
I tried to get a shot like that where the person gets the black silhouette at sunset but I must have fucked up my settings. Generally what mode can I shoot in to have results similar to yours as I described but with a person instead of the landscape?

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>>2690917

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>>2694531
It's easy. Your camera can't record the same dynamic range as your eye sees. Expose for the sky (which means telling your camera to underexpose, as it'll try making the photo much brighter; in my case exposure compensating by -2.3EV), then everything on the ground turns way dark. This works out at ISO 100 in the photo above because the sun is not obstructed by any clouds. It is a direct source of light, bright and clear. It actually looked like that in real life, but my eyes were able to see the detail in those trees.

Stuff just turns dark when you do that kind of thing. It works during golden hour when the sun is low because all kinds of way long shadows are being cast everywhere on the ground. It would be harder to do in summer sunlight at noon because there's just bright light everywhere — you might be able to do it by standing in a shadow and having bright light in the background, though. But the trick is to expose for the sun and let the rest be underexposed.

>>2694531
Also, I either shoot manual or one of the priority modes. You need to know how to adjust ISO, shutter, and aperture to do things like this easily. (And how your camera meters light.)

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>>2695048

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>>2695051

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>>2691100
uhhh - Yes. Couldnt be more convenient

>>2690917
This is actually kinda cool with the clouds forming their own sort of horizon.