White sun in sunset photos

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Hi Everyone,

First post here, in a number of my sunset photos the sun is white rather than, orange/yellow/red. Can anyone tell me how this has happend and how I can avoid it please.

The photo below shows the problem, sorry its got some dust in was just the first one I had to hand and I have not got time to clone out the dust tonight.

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The sun is over exposed, as it almost always is. It's extremely bright compared to everything else, and beyond the sensor's normal dynamic range.

You can expose for the sun, but then the rest of the sky will go very dark. A graduated filter would do the same thing. Or you could take two pictures, one exposed for the sun and another for the sky, and combine them in post processing - called HDR technique.
 
Motogp said:
Never really noticed that the sun was still so high in the sky.

Hoppy, so obvious after reading your post .:)

Oh and i noticed your name is richard and your from the east midlands i only wish my kit bag was the same as yours too :D
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I'm a bit of a Rossi fan too - wish he'd get a move on!
 
HoppyUK said:
I'm a bit of a Rossi fan too - wish he'd get a move on!
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had to google Rossi, not sure what that has to do with the image

as for the shot Id crop the trees off, take a meter reading, then try stopping down, might help.

other than that try get something aesthetically pleasing in shot, for a bit of interest
 
Just Dave said:
had to google Rossi, not sure what that has to do with the image
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Rossi is the rider in MotoGP's avatar.....

And I also believe that HDR would be the only way to do it without leaving the rest of the image very dark.

Steve
 
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