Do you ever hear “ Nature is Painting For Us” ? We can see wonderful painting everyday through your own eyes without have going to Photo Gallery . One of the most beautiful magical moment that we can see everyday is Sunset & Sunrise, and as you know that it’s totally free. Sunrise and Sunset photographs is the one of the most popular landscape photographs that most people share through social media. If you ever tried to take a picture sunrise and sunset but you’re still not satisfied with the photo result, So here we go i will explain  photography tips to get wonderful sunrise and sunset photographs like a painting: 

1. Do preparation properly
      Sunset and sunrise moments only appears during about half an hour . So that we have do preparation before. Make sure that you come early on the spot to choose the best angle. Do observation before to get great composition. Don’t be late , try to know the best times of sunrise and sunset , because different spot  is different sunrise /sunset also. Make sure the equipments are ready to set (camera-Lens- tripod also the other accessories ), So when the times of sunrise/sunset come you don’t spend your time to set, instead you’re busy to shoots. Read again about composition.

2.  Cloudy , it doesn’t matter
     Because you’ve prepared all equipments and going to the far place, don’t worry if suddenly the weather turn into cloudy. Blow your creativity when the sky is covered by clouds. The cloudy sky is not the big problem to get wonderful sunrise/sunset photographs. 

3. Don’t always take wide angle
     Shoot the Sunset and Sunrise using Wide Lens is standard, take more challenges to raise your creativity ,use the others lens, for example Tele Lens.

4. Silhouette is magical shadow
      The thing that can increase the attractiveness of sunset and sunrise photographs is silhouette. Silhouette give the strong impression also give the story in your photographs, moreover if you shoot the sunrise and sunset in the strong identity spot.

5. Bring the Tripod
     If you want use long shutter technique- make HDR or panorama,you must bring tripod. 

6. Use the Manual Focus
       Because sunset and sunrise have extreme lights quality, sometimes camera will so hard to find focus if you use auto focus mode, switch to manual mode ,so we don’t spend our times to wait the camera finding the focus point.

7. Use the White Balance Cloudy Preset
     Switch white balance setting into cloudy (usually symbolized by cloudy icon). White balance setting will make sunset/sunrise photographs more warm and the colors more amazing  better than the other white balance setting. Read more about White balance here.
8. Use Spot Metering ( Digital SLR Camera and Prosumer) or Sunset Scene ( Pocket Camera).
    To get right exposure, use the metering spot mode if you have Digital SLR camera and Prosumer ( read more about Spot Metering here), or use the sunset/sunset scene if you use pocket camera. To measure using Spot meter, direct the focus point to sun areas ( don’t direct on the sun accurately) then so metering with half press the shutter button, then lock the exposure. For pocket camera, just direct and shoot. Shoot the Digital Camera setting modes.

9. Don’t stop when the sunset gone
     When take a sunset photographs, don’t be so hurry pack your camera because the sun has pass the horizon line. Wait just a minute, because the light after sunset is the one of the beautiful lights from nature. Likewise before sunrise come, that is the one of most beautiful landscape.

10. Pray for Luck
      If you’ve gone far to come in isolated beach or mountains,prepared the alarm on 4 o’clock and has done to set all equipment , but suddenly rain is come. Wells, we cannot do anything, sometimes we need some lucks and patience. 

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