Adjusting the White Balance
Sunsets melting into the sea or a cityscape always make for dramatic subjects, especially with the gorgeous tinged skies at dusk. However, most of the times they don't come through as impressive in pictures, and the pictures are seldom as red-tinged as one expected. Let's try taking pictures of sunsets that are really dramatic.

Change the white balance to take pictures of sunsets
To really accentuate the red-tinged sunset glow set the white balance to []. The [] setting is usually used to compensate for the blue hues that occur on cloudy days. But you can use the same effect to make the red tones in the picture come through more dramatically than in real life. It may be a good idea to take 3 shots using each of the white balance modes: [AUTO], [] and [].

 

Change the white balance to
take pictures of sunsets

The most important thing to
take beautiful pictures of sunsets
is to adjust the white balance.
The white balance is usually set to
[AUTO]. But in [AUTO] mode
the sunset glow tends to appear
in pictures in paler tones than
in real life. By setting the white
balance to [], you can get the
colors to appear closer to real life.

 

  

 

   

 

 

Picture taken with the [AUTO]
white balance

 Picture taken with the [] white
balance
   
   

 

  
Picture taken with [] and
white balance compensation
  

 

Useful things to remember

Some camera models have the [] function. By using [ (WB Compensation)] and compensating towards the RED direction you can accentuate even more the red tones in the picture.