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Hi,
hope you guys can give me a bit of advice here.

As we have had some beautiful sunsets lately, i have been trying to get some good photos, but mine keep coming out either under exposed or overexposed. I cant quite get it right.

Can anyone give me some pointers as the what settings my D90 should be on?

Thank you
 
Sunsets and landscapes are tricky as there is so much difference in the amount of light in sky and in the foreground. if you have your meter setting to matrix it will average out the whole scene and not give you what you want. I'd shoot in AP mode with an aperture number around 10-14, point the camera at the sky and half pres the shutter. to get the desired shutter speed for exposing the sky. Remembering the shutter speed it suggested then change to manual and dial in the settings. You can then mess with the shutter speed a bit to get the desired exposure. This way you will more likely get the sky well exposed and leave the foredroung as a silhouette. The best way forward is to purchase some ND grad filters and then you can even up the sky a bit.
 
Can you show us what result you got and tell us what you want to be different?

The range of brightness in a sunset scene is usually too big for your camera so you won't be able to correctly expose the lot. A set of ND grad filters will help, or you could mount on a tripod and take one exposure that's correct for the sky and one that's correct for the ground and merge them.
 
Either graduated neutral density filters or exposure blend in Photoshop

This was taken from two separate exposures, one for sky the second for the foreground.
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A tip I was given for sunsets was to set the white balance to cloudy to give much richer colours.
 
I was going to ask a very similar question but I will cheekily post in here! I took 3 AEB pics and tried merging them in photoshop (which it did do) but wasn't very happy with the result, so I just took the brightest one of the bracket, selected the sun and knocked the brightness down so it wasn't a completely overexposed blob, but the whole pic is a bit (or a lot) too orange I feel, advice wanted as the OP please!

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ND Grads i find are far easier as it saves you taking more than one shot of the subject and saves farting about post processing. (Something i don't enjoy)
 
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