Polish Nature: Today's Sunset and Colours and How To Capture That!?

Hi Firends!

Hello! Today's few frames from sunset and the golden hour right after it...
A few words about the photos themselves - this is a technically difficult matter in processing, because the light and shadow captured by the sensor is not as large as our eye can see. We see the full space of light, details in the shadows, colors around the sun, and after taking the photo there is a small disappointment - because the sky is overexposed and devoid of colors and in the shadow you can only see black...

But we have a tool to balance it all!
First - we take photos in RAW format, where each pixel stores all the necessary information to be able to recover details and colors from it later...

Second - the lowest possible ISO, so you need a tripod, because low ISO means long exposure times. Low ISO value guarantees less noise when brightening the photo in processing.

Third - our perception... let's remember how bright these colors were, how the colors were really distributed in the field, because this is also important so as not to make a so-called "soap" out of the photo. This is also a separate topic, but in short - the stronger the air haze, the more light spreads in the field, so in fog and sunset everything will be orange... on the other hand, if the air is clear, the shadows will always be much cooler than the illuminated areas - it is worth keeping this in mind when processing to give a natural character to our photos 🙂.

And fourthly - I personally use the Adobe package, which already has an incredibly well-functioning AI-based noise reduction function in Lightroom - it works really great and I use it whenever I need to. But if you have other programs or noise reduction tools - it is worth using them, even slightly, during such a session. Shadows after our post-production will always be noisy.

I guess that's all about the technicalities. Obvious thing - when setting the exposure we make sure not to overexpose anything because it's already a chapel, we can always get something out of the shadows but nothing out of the white pixels... keep an eye on the light meter or simply display the light curves in the preview options to be sure that there are no areas that escape to the right...

I hope that these tips will be useful to you and I hope that the photos are also interesting enough, although I didn't focus on any exceptional composition, but rather I wanted to capture this beautiful palette of colors.