dusk

[smelly]

Taken just a couple hours ago. Today was my first day with my new 30D.
What do I need to do in the future to capture the sunset (since it's over-exposed here) and still have a long enough exposure for everything else to show up in the image?

[Frog]

Overexposed?

[eaglesona]

That doesn't look overexposed to me.

[Photo-John]

This is a very good exposure. I think it's your expectations that need to be adjusted. There's a certain amount of range your camera can capture - and that's that. If there's something you want to appear differently in this scene, you're gonna have to start doing some post processing. The first thing to do is shoot RAW so that you have more information to work with. The next step is to start taking advantage of that extra information in Photoshop. I use masked adjustment layers on all of my images so that I can selectively fine-tune the contrast and density of different parts of the photo. In the case of this photo, if you want the low, bright part of the sky to have more info, I'd shoot it darker and then brighten up the rest of the photo with a levels adjustment. Then I'd mask the bright area so that mu adjustment left it alone.

[smelly]

Thanks John. That's helpful information.
Shooting and processing RAW is something I plan to begin learning this weekend. I just got my camera a week ago, so I wanted to get a handle on the camera before diving in to something else.

[GB1]

It might be just a tad too bright in the center area. Otherwise, very interesting composition. It could use just a little more happening on the left side, but otherwise I like it. I think its close on the right but maybe a tad underexposed.

Smelly, check out this pic on a new technique on getting all the objects the correct exp. I havent tried it yet.

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5153168