Sunset is a special time. Unfortunately the dynamic range found in a sunset is much more than a digital camera can handle. Fortunately there are programs like Photomatix that enable you to combine multiple exposures of the same scene and combine them to increase the dynamic range, giving you a result similar to what you see with the naked eye. You can shoot three images at different exposures with the camera securely mounted on a tripod, or shoot a single image in your camera’s RAW format, and then export three different exposures from Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw in Photoshop. For the sunset image you see below, I exported three versions of the same image, one at -2.o EV, one as captured by the camera, and another at +2.o EV.

Sunset in Sarasota Harbor

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