@cleansensor wrote:
Thank you!!
Use manual exposure, because the light conditions will coerce the camera into over exposing the shots.. Get there early, so you can take a number of exposure.
Every sunrise is different. The above shot is first light. A second later the exposure settings were a good 3-4 stops too high.
Once you get comfortable with sunset photography, you might want to try your hand at Alpenglühen (the last vestige of the setting sun reflected off of a mountaintop or cloud) and Gegendämmerung (the reflection of a sunset, usually after the sun has set). Those phenomena are pretty hard to find, but I got lucky one evening down at the New Jersey shore:
In both of these pictures, the sun was behind me.
I admit that these pictures are technically rather crappy. But in my defense I'll point out that it was ten years ago, and my skills (I hope) and my equipment (for sure) have improved a lot in the meantime. But another opportunity hasn't come along. Anyway, either phenomenon is interesting to look for and a bit of a coup if you can catch it.
