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 p.1 #11 · Most needed Sunrise/Sunset tech? | |
If you are doing a landscape / seascape and don't have graduated ND you can also use a tripod, expose for the sky, slow the shutter 4 stops and shoot a second photo to capture the foreground detail, blend the two together on separate layers with a mask on the top layer.
If you want to capture the ambience perceived by eye shoot RAW and use daylight WB as your evaluation baseline, then adjust in the RAW editor. Human perception is driven by expectation and in person we perceive color largely based on what our memory tells us things should look like. That's why in any light we perceive a white shirt to look white in any light. In person our eyes also adapt to make the faces look "normal" within the context of the ambient light. So when looking at a person in a front of a sunset we'll perceive the sky as warm in person, then shift perceptual gears when looking at the faces and perceive them more normally than the warm light is actually making them. To capture that same perceptual impression in a photo you need to find a good perceptual balance somewhere between a normal skin tone (i.e. what you'd get if balanced neutral to the flash) and the ambient color temp -- a warm "normal".
Finding the ideal balance will take some experimentation and different sky conditions will affect how the light hits the faces. For example if there are lots of clouds in the sky the reflected light from the sky the person is facing will be warmer than on a clear day where the setting sun isn't bounced off the clouds into the shaded side. If using hot shoe flash get a $1 Rosco sampler from B&H which is just large enough to cover the flash head and has the full line of gels. Experiment with 1/8 to full CTO orange gels on the flash.
Chuck
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