Missed a great shot: I was photographing a sunset yesterday, it didn't amount to much so packed up and left. About 5 minutes later while driving down the road I looked in the rearview...

TKT Loc: New Mexico

I was photographing a sunset yesterday, it didn't amount to much so packed up and left. About 5 minutes later while driving down the road I looked in the rearview mirror and wow, what color. I couldn't stop or turn around so just had to look. The moral of the story is when shooting sunsets stay set up until it's pitch black! Sometimes the best color occurs after the sun has set below the horizon. :mrgreen:

amehta Loc: Boston

TKT wrote:

I was photographing a sunset yesterday, it didn't amount to much so packed up and left. About 5 minutes later while driving down the road I looked in the rearview mirror and wow, what color. I couldn't stop or turn around so just had to look. The moral of the story is when shooting sunsets stay set up until it's pitch black! Sometimes the best color occurs after the sun has set below the horizon. :mrgreen:

Great tip!

mborn Loc: Massachusetts

TKT wrote:

I was photographing a sunset yesterday, it didn't amount to much so packed up and left. About 5 minutes later while driving down the road I looked in the rearview mirror and wow, what color. I couldn't stop or turn around so just had to look. The moral of the story is when shooting sunsets stay set up until it's pitch black! Sometimes the best color occurs after the sun has set below the horizon. :mrgreen:

How True Many times when photographing sunsets many people leave a soon as the sun sets and miss the great color that can occur up to 1/2 hour post sunset

Ambrose Loc: North America

TKT wrote:

I was photographing a sunset yesterday, it didn't amount to much so packed up and left. About 5 minutes later while driving down the road I looked in the rearview mirror and wow, what color. I couldn't stop or turn around so just had to look. The moral of the story is when shooting sunsets stay set up until it's pitch black! Sometimes the best color occurs after the sun has set below the horizon. :mrgreen:

In my internet travels, I've run across this same story so many times and have experienced it myself. Some of the best shots are captured at the very end of twilight.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

TKT wrote:

I was photographing a sunset yesterday, it didn't amount to much so packed up and left. About 5 minutes later while driving down the road I looked in the rearview mirror and wow, what color. I couldn't stop or turn around so just had to look. The moral of the story is when shooting sunsets stay set up until it's pitch black! Sometimes the best color occurs after the sun has set below the horizon. :mrgreen:

Stay 30-60 minutes after the sun sets, and you can experience the Blue Hour. The camera will see a deep blue sky, even though your eyes won't.

http://www.bluehoursite.com/

tsomes Loc: Fargo ND

jerryc41 wrote:

Stay 30-60 minutes after the sun sets, and you can experience the Blue Hour. The camera will see a deep blue sky, even though your eyes won't.

http://www.bluehoursite.com/

Thanks for the link.

peterg Loc: Santa Rosa, CA

Also, look BEHIND you, too. Often, great shots are there, too.

mborn Loc: Massachusetts

peterg wrote:

Also, look BEHIND you, too. Often, great shots are there, too.

How true
:)

RAK Loc: Concord Ca

Amen!

Bridges Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA

jerryc41 wrote:

Stay 30-60 minutes after the sun sets, and you can experience the Blue Hour. The camera will see a deep blue sky, even though your eyes won't.

http://www.bluehoursite.com/

Just a side note on this: One subject I photograph frequently is fireworks. I really like it when they start early enough that some blue is still visible in the sky. To the viewer of the fireworks, it may seem the sky is black but with a shutter speed of 4 sec., the blue can be pretty awesome.

Tatertot13 Loc: Aptos, CA

On a Canon SX50HS what settings would I use for taking Sunset pictures. I have never taken Sunset pictures. Thank You!

Redmark

Great Link, thanks Jerry.

James R. Kyle Loc: Saint Louis, Missouri (A Suburb of Ferguson)

TKT wrote:

I was photographing a sunset yesterday, it didn't amount to much so packed up and left. About 5 minutes later while driving down the road I looked in the rearview mirror and wow, what color. I couldn't stop or turn around so just had to look. The moral of the story is when shooting sunsets stay set up until it's pitch black! Sometimes the best color occurs after the sun has set below the horizon. :mrgreen:

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As Jerry says... STAY a little longer, even perhaps an hour after you see the "Orb" go past the horizontal plane... I have rushed myself out of some really good After Light photographs in being too damn busy with other stuff -- STAY in the "Photographer Mode" after the sun has set... The sky is not finished with the so called "Sun-Set"...

Examples attached here....

mborn Loc: Massachusetts

ALso remember to photograph the sky before sunrise

davefales Loc: Virginia

Jerry - thanks for the link to bluehoursite.