Sunset Advice

Hmmm ...

maybe that's to simplistic an approach ...

... but maybe there are some opthalmogists amoung the forum readers that could comment on this idea:


Would it be sufficient to wear good sunglasses (e.g. Ray-ban) that eliminate the bad portion of the sunlight when composing the picture?

I think these pieces were designed to allow you to look into the sun.

Regards,
Andy

You need a really long lens!

This is the same problem as shooting a solar eclipse, which is the situation with the sun and moon appearing to be almost the same size in the view. To fill the frame on an ordinary 35mm camera, you need something larger than 1500mm or 2000mm focal length. For a typical DSLR, you could reduce that by a factor of 1.6.

The other way to do it is to simply crop the "sun" part out of a full frame. If you have plenty of resolution to begin with, then this works.

---Bob Gross---