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Originally Posted by jsl
- Exactly, what sort of filters do I need? What is "ND"?
- What lenses do you look for that give you an f stop of 32? I can only seem to get up to 22 on my lenses
- how do I make the sunset stand out more? The sunset is always more orange in real life than I can seem to take. Do you do a lot of tweaking post production or do you put on some filter/setting?
Thanks in advance for your help!
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-You got the answer for the ND filter.
-I chose /32.0 because that is the max setting on the lens I had on at the time. I have shot sunsets with just about every lens I own (see the list in my sig) and I can't say that one is any better than another. I tend to use the telephotos more often than not because I can manipulate my composition while staying in one place. The idea is use the smallest (Largest f/ number) that you can still hand hold the shot unless you are shooting with a tripod then it doesn't matter.
-Right out of the box, a canon will give a better sunset than most nikons I have seen. I use a nikon, I prefer them. To get that shot I posted above, and that is SOOC - no post processing aside from scale the image down for the Internet. I took the exposure with a custom white balance of 7500K. Those colors are pretty much true to what I saw except at that time there appeared to be more ambient light than what was captured.
Hope that helps.