12 Tips for Photographing Stunning Sunsets

‘No good travel photo album is complete without the token sunrise or sunset picture!’
Many travelers seem to live by this mantra – however most sunset and sunrise photographs that I see are quite disappointing.
They need not be – sunsets and sunrises are not that difficult to photograph!


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Image by David Butali

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Together by David Butali

The long road

The long road, a photo by David Butali (Dylan@66) on Flickr.

Morning Dream

Morning Dream, a photo by David Butali (Dylan@66) on Flickr.

How to Beat the Midday Sun!

We’ve all heard the saying, even in photography, that the only people out in the midday sun are – Mad dogs, Englishmen and Wedding photographers!
Well after years of following that train of thought I decided to play around with the idea of not being beaten, by the sun that is!
The other weekend Molly – my 3 year old daughter and I, went down to the Toronto boating club and Redhead beach (NSW Australia), between 11am and 3pm to see what we could achieve with a bare speedlight, a neutral density filter and the sun.
As the sun is a harsh light source, we decided to fight fire with fire, and use a bare speedlight, absolutely no modifier! On paper it all looked straight forward – and . . . it was easier and so much fun.
Below are the specs of our gear and a rough plan of how we achieved this.


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Swedish Sunrise

Swedish Sunrise, a photo by David Butali (Dylan@66) on Flickr.

this is one of a series about a short trip in one of the last wild area of Europe. Two friends of mine, living there, invited me for some days. They took me around this incredible place. In the early morning i loved to go out for short walk in the surrounding forest. The forests in this part of the world have always secrets that are waiting to be discovered especially when the day starts. In different periods it's not rare to meet bears and elks . The nature there is really wild!
Jokkmokk, Norrbottens,Sweden

"My Landscapes - The making of" - MY NEW BOOK!!

A NEW BOOK VERY SOON!

According to the requests that I will receive I could put togheter up a new photo-book concerning the making of my landscapes. the title could be "My landscapes - the making of".

Only for who is interested ( ask me!!) i can offer a 15% discount on the price (will be approx. = €20 -15% ).
Just send me an email or drop a comment here. this does not mean you'll buy it!!
Contact me! (click here to send an email or send on your own to dbutali@gmail.com)

In the book i'm going to explain my way of taking landscape images and my work flow after the click, some guide lines that help me to choose a spot and decide to shoot it, the tools i use and the settings of 20 of my images.

Some of the subjects included:
- finding spot
- after click
- light
- composition
- texture
- saturation
- layers
- bw
- camera settings
- raw
- lenses used

The book could be a PDF Book, in this case the price will be much lower.

Thanks anyway for your support.


David