General Photography | Sunrise/Sunset

If you were to sit down and raid any photographers back catalogue of images. Be it old slides or a 1TB hard drive filled to capacity you will find dozens of the classic sunrise or sunset photographs. It seems to be built in to everyone that they will at some point take photos of the Moon and photos of the Sun. So that’s what I decided to do today. I sat down and went through all my photographs and videos picking out what I believe to be the best sunset or sunrise photographs. The photographs in this post are from a variety of cameras, namely:

Pentax K1000
Lomography Fisheye 2
Canon EOS 350D
Canon EOS 50D
Olympus Trip 35
Polaroid One600 Pro

You may have guessed if you have clicked the links that I am a big fan of the wiki Camerapedia. I suggest that you check it out should you need any camera referencing.

And the footage in the video that I placed at the top of this blog post was recorded in HD on the Canon Powershot SX200. If you would like to view the video in full HD feel free to click the link below. The reason for it not being in High Definition on the blog itself is mainly because I haven’t got a pro account on Vimeo yet and with that you get HD embedding.

Incidentally although this post originated as a collection of my favourite sunrise and sunset shots the camera list has also shown my favourite cameras as well. Which is quite interesting as that was completely accidental. I would like to say also that the order in no way reflects which ones I take preference for. The main key I would say to getting a good sunset or sunrise photograph, and this will sound ridiculously obvious, but it’s having a camera on you at all times. This is because with sunsets and sunrises the whole scene could change in a matter of minutes and it isn’t going to wait for you to quickly pop home and get your camera. By the time you have done that it will have passed and there are no guarantees that a brilliant sunset will happen the next day. Something I had learnt when I missed a sunset and tried to capture it the next day. Jump to me standing on the side of the Thames with hands too cold to move the dials on my Pentax. If I remember correctly I used Fujifilm Reala ISO 100.

These photographs were taken in a variety of places. Which isn’t surprising as this is a sort of compilation of images post and the video for it is a compilation also. I remember where they all where though:

Greenhithe, England
Central London, England
Oslo, Norway
Bangor, Wales
Aberystwyth, Wales
New Cross, England
Bluewater, England
Greenwich, England

This blog piece although inspired by the idea that every photograph has a wealth of sunset photos was also made because I haven’t posted anything for a while. This is because I was working on a Wedding Portfolio post but going through ALL the wedding photographs I have taken and picking the best was taking some time. So please enjoy the photographs below and the video above and feel free to click the links that I have put up in this post.