Sunset and sailboats

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The subject is a cliché. The treatment is a cliché. Why take postcard snaps? It's the kind of scene that has memories for the person who took the photo.

Nevertheless, if you’re going to take such a picture, arrange it well. Time it well.

Have the sun beam his reflection down the water a little off-center. Stagger the boats to give a sense of depth. Focus on boats with different mass and rigging.

It looks symmetrical but it pleasing well isn’t.

Canon 5DII, 70-200mm (200), f4.5,1/1,250, Colonia del Sacramento 101023

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Sunset shots can be better than WYSIWYG

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Sunset can produce vivid colors.

Sunset is a time when the photos often don’t need brightness, contrast and hue adjustments to be made in Photoshop.

Sunset photos can be even better than “what you see is what you get” (WYSIWYG). Where the setting sun falls on an object set against a dark background, the results can be very contrastive.


The gold dog stands in eerie inky water.

The terracotta pot pushes back the oncoming darkness.


Canon 5D Mk II, 70-200mm, f4, 1/320 (dog), 1/1600 (pot), Colonia del Sacramento,101009
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