Colours of a Sunset

Editing Sunsets in Raw is hard. There I said it. There are too many colours, too many tempting options too many sacrifices to be made! Do I enhance the orange and sacrifice the green? Do I add a magenta hue for dramatic effect?

Photo editing has become a way of life for people - look at photography blogs all over the place and you find over-edited photos, HDR photos that REQUIRE editing to even exist. So to those who turn their nose up at photo editing, I really don't care because it is an art-form in and of itself.

But, nothing beats taking a photo that requires little or no editing. That's how I approach sunsets because they are too difficult to edit to my satisfaction! The best creator of colours at sunset is God so I try and capture what he does at the end of each day rather than make my own creation.

I was trying a few techniques from the Understanding photography book, using the flash for the foreground while retaining the sunset colours. This required no editing.