Thanks for the kind words, Cuthbert. Good sunset photos are all about getting the right exposure. In real life, when you're looking at the sun as it sets, it's a big, bright, orange ball. But if you meter the scene such that you get a big orange ball in your photos, everything else will be way underexposed. When I shoot a sunset photo, I want to record all the colors in the sky and the landscape -- or seascape. But to do so, I have to let go of the sun itself, and set my exposure for everything else. And the way I do that is I point my camera straight up and meter the sky. I set my camera to that value then, and fire away. As the sunset progresses and the light dims, I will re-meter the sky directly overhead and adjust the camera as necessary. Now, when you examine my sunset photos, you'll notice that the sun is white. This is the price I have to pay to get my sunset photos to turn out the way I want. But so it goes.
