Tonight, I shot a mountain over the lake close by as the sun went down 180 degrees opposite of it. It was beautiful and I almost go it but one problem. As the shadows crept up the mountain, the apiture of the camera kept opening up to try to maintain even greyscale/exposure. In the end, I just ended up with a pixelated image that tried its best to keep it daylight outside even though it had grown dark.
Would it be best for me to just pick a manual apiture setting good for the beginning of this sunset shoot then hold that setting? or would it get too dark and exposure before the sun actually finished setting? I want to go back out tomorrow and try again. I live in an absolutely beautiful place; a photographers dream.
This is pretty much what I was shooting but it went sour as it got darker.
I want to catch the shadows creeping across the landscape and the cloud movement and the change in color as alpineglow sets in. Then I want it to simply fade to black as it gets dark outside. I have many places I can just leave a camera running in time lapse on a tripod while I go hiking. Pick it back up on my way in from the hike.
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