Photographing a sunset…

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Sunset May 20, 2016

When photographing a sunset, if you meter off the sun (set the exposure for the brightest part of the photo) other areas will be under exposed (dark or black). Depending on the look you are going for this can be a good or a bad thing. In the above image I exposed for the sun and sky which then made the trees and mountains in the foreground under exposed.