Best settings for dawn, dusk and evening shots?

[Photodude]

Hi all,

I am off to Bali for 2 weeks this weekend
I am taking my beloved D70 and a tripod
BUT I have no previous experience with dawn, dusk or evening shots

Bali has beautiful lighting and I wish to try and capture some sunset / sunrises etc.

I generally shoot in aperture priority mode

Any tips GREATLY appreciated

Thanks

John

[birddog114]

Hi all,

I am off to Bali for 2 weeks this weekend
I am taking my beloved D70 and a tripod
BUT I have no previous experience with dawn, dusk or evening shots

Bali has beautiful lighting and I wish to try and capture some sunset / sunrises etc.

I generally shoot in aperture priority mode

Any tips GREATLY appreciated

Thanks

John

Lucky guy you're, heading off to Bali again! I thought you went there last January.
Make sure you make your luggage safe with tampered proof

[Glen]

My tip is the same as Birddy's, they now gladwrap your luggage at the airport for I think $8 per bag. Buy a couple of rolls and do it at home, save a bomb. Don't know if you have noticed but there have also been a few aussies arrested for .7 or 1.8 grams of hashish, smaller than a five cent piece, so stay away from anyone who talks about drugs to you, they are probably getting a kickback from the police.

Look forward to seeing your shots

[MCWB]

Make sure you make your luggage safe with tampered proof

What Birdy and Glen said. Also don't strap heroin to your body, and you'll be fine!

In terms of shooting, depends what effect you're after! I usually use M mode, matrix metering (or spot if I'm after a particular effect), and check both aperture and shutter speed are in the range I'd like, then manually bracket if you feel the need. Shoot RAW too obviously. One thing I'd recommend is to trust the meter rather than the LCD: I thought last week's POTW was horribly overexposed when I looked at it on the LCD, and as a result underexposed each subsequent pic by about a stop!

[Matt. K]

Can you take a package for me?

[ozonejunkie]

One thing I'd recommend is to trust the meter rather than the LCD: I thought last week's POTW was horribly overexposed when I looked at it on the LCD, and as a result underexposed each subsequent pic by about a stop!

Being an EOS user, I have noticed that increasing the backlight strength gives a better impression of the "real" image. The factory settings on the 300D are for minimum back light strength, and makes pics look underexposed, when they are not necessarily so.

I have now set them to 80%, and you can pick the exposure better.

My $0.02.

Cheers,
Tristan

[Photodude]

Thanks for the tips

Definitely locking all bags

Birddog you have a good memory - was there not long ago - but cant wait to get back - sufer and photographer's paradise

Matt - sure can take a package over for ya - might get to share a cell with Shapelle

Will post some (hopefully) nice pictures in a few weeks time

[KerryPierce]

If you're going to do a lot of low light shooting and review the images, turn down the brightness of your LCD. I've had mine set at -1 for ages and use -2 for shots after dark.

For shots that are really tough to judge, use at least +/- 1 bracketing. A lot of times, I've hit exactly the exposure I wanted by doing that. I also frequently underexpose sunsets/sunrises by -1EV, when the sun is still off the horizon a little bit.