Colourful Sky Shots.....

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Morning all woke up early this morning to see a lovely glow out the window (I'm in the loft) so I opened the window and grabbed my camera to try and get some shots of the amazing colours ..... Non of them came out

I tried different shutter speeds and nothing

So how to you capture the colors ?????

Thanks
 
What were you exposing for? Sky or foreground?
What priority/settings were you using?
 
There's still the question of how the camera was set up...

I would normally use aperture priority with a bit ( -o.5 to -0.7) of exposure compensation.
I prefer to set my cameras up with a bit of colour saturation too, for JPEGs. (I take in jpeg and raw)

An example, I know I've posted this scene before! :


Loch Voil sunset by kendo1111, on Flickr
 
bbg404 said:
Morning all woke up early this morning to see a lovely glow out the window (I'm in the loft) so I opened the window and grabbed my camera to try and get some shots of the amazing colours ..... Non of them came out

I tried different shutter speeds and nothing

So how to you capture the colors ?????

Thanks
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Post a sample.. and remember that changing the shutter speed in any mode other than manual won't make a blind bit of difference to the resulting overall exposure.

(what you probably needed to do was to adjust the exposure compensation)
 
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Often when we see things our response is emotional rather than visually analytical. A photograph IS visually analytical. Sometimes it helps to roughly frame what we feel enthused about with the hands - this isolates the potential subject from its context and forces a tighter appraisal.
 
Firstly a camera's sensor is no where near as sensitive as your eye. As your hbby progresses this you'll notice this.

If you have shot in RAW, then the image will always look a bit washed out but I recommend you shoot in RAW as far more detail is captured than the jpeg which will be inititally processed in camera.

Process the RAW file and adjust elements to what you saw
 
Good luck taking good photographs...

There has been no response to the questions people have asked you in their attempts to help you.

Ah well, you're no doubt busy getting ready :)

Have a good trip.
 
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kendo1 said:
Good luck taking good photographs...

There has been no response to the questions people have asked you in their attempts to help you.

Ah well, you're no doubt busy getting ready :)

Have a good trip.
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Theres no questions other than how the camera was set up and I answered by saying I don't know I was half asleep all other replys were helpful enough to give me somthing to try next time round!!

The photos taken were deleted as they didn't come out
 
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bbg404 said:
Theres no questions other than how the camera was set up and I answered by saying I don't know I was half asleep all other replys were helpful enough to give me somthing to try next time round!!

The photos taken were deleted as they didn't come out
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Which is the very reason you should have kept them, or a least a record of the settings.
We can learn as much (if not more) from crap as we can from excellence.
Had you given the Kendo chap more to go on, you might be heading to Egypt with the expectation of decent exposures - instead of hoping for them.
 
RBaker said:
Which is the very reason you should have kept them, or a least a record of the settings.
We can learn as much (if not more) from crap as we can from excellence.
Had you given the Kendo chap more to go on, you might be heading to Egypt with the expectation of decent exposures - instead of hoping for them.
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I'm afraid this is absolutely paramount.

I learned shooting film, I'm rubbish at record keeping and it took me years to learn from my mistakes, I just had piles of crap pictures, no data and no-one to guide me.

You have the opportunity of readily available data and a bunch of people to help you with really good specific friendly advice. You will never know how lucky that makes you compared to what we had in the old days. You'll never get good pictures built on hope, they take planning and faultless execution.
 
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