Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Taking a Good Sunrise or Sunset Picture

Taking good pictures of a sunrise or a sunset is not about the sunrise or the sunset.

Sunrise and sunset pictures - or pictures of shoes for that matter - are a dime a dozen.  There are billions of them.  If you don't want your pictures to be lost in that crowd, you need to do something different.

Granted, pictures of sunrises or sunsets with flowers in the foreground are not terribly original, either.  But the following picture is nice because in this picture of a sunrise, the subject is not the sunrise but rather the beautiful yellow flowers that fill the frame.  And it is about the brilliant, colored morning light of the rising sun that is splashed upon these flowers.

When you are standing on a mountain looking at a sunrise, don't take pictures of that sunrise.  Instead, look around you and notice what the beautiful light does in the environment in which you stand.  Or turn around, away from the sunrise, and see what the light has landed on.  That is your picture.


This picture was taken on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina in the Doughton Park area.

sunrise on flowers blue ridge parkway

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