Counter logical question

Everybody tries to make the proper exposure, and there are many ways to achieve that. But what if you don't want the correct exposure (in the normal sense). Let me give an example. It's the time just before night fall, the sky is very dark blue, the sea is even darker. How do you take a photo of that and preserve the original and dark colors.

Thanks

Absolutely,..

At this point you either shoot manual exposure,. or use exposure compensation.

Setting your white balance from a card can help a lot.

Keep checking your shots too to try and find the right amount of exposure...

Thanks CDS for your reply.

I think you are right, it needs a bit of experimenting. Couldn't experiment because it was raining heavily, that's why I asked the experts here.

Thanks again.

Bracketing is not a bad idea either.

Histogram histogram histogram. Check the histogram after every shot and expose to the right. And shoot it in RAW.

Of course that's how to cheat...