[genielamb]

your problem is your aperture setting and shutter speed combination. Remember that when photographing the sun you are pointing your camera right at a glowing ball of light. For this reason you want you aperture to be as closed as possible (i.e. very high f-stop) The more open it is (smaller value, you are using f/5.6 here) the more light will reach your sensor. So try setting your aperture to a higher value.This will also aid in keeping everything in nice sharp focus. Then OVEREXPOSE (slower shutter speed) slightly or your sunset will be too dark. Here are a few examples. These are SOOC no PP at all other than to resize. They depict the sun exactly as I witnessed it. If you want more DOF use a smaller f-stop but then you will need to UNDEREXPOSE (faster shutter speed)