I have a "go to" place for sunsets. Prospect park with its scenic overlook of the city and westward orientation is a perfect setting for beautiful sunsets. When the sun starts going down and the clouds look right I head out to college hill and set up for the shots.

However, I've been over influenced by Galen Rowell's sunset images, and I forget to actually take advantage of the hot light of sunset. So, a little over a week ago I decided to look for other opportunities to capture the light. This time I used the shadows in the park to lead the eye to Roger Williams statue. I couldn't quite get the statehouse and the statue to line up as I would have liked, but such is life. One happy note: This is the first time I've gotten the depth of field I've been looking for from front to back - I actually properly used hyperfocal distance (explained in an earlier post).

Still, I ran into a second problem. As I mentioned in my last post I have found that my light meter was causing me to over expose by 1/3 stop. Additionally I have the bad habit of thinking that lower EV numbers on the meter equate to less exposure. Lower EV means less light in the scene, requiring more exposure. So, this time in the park I consciously corrected for the light meter, but foolishly overexposed by 1/3 in the hope to improve color saturation (thinking I was underexposing by 1/3).

So, in the end I didn't get the shots I wanted because of less color than I was hoping. I'm not going to make that mistake again though; well at least I'll keep an eye out for it.

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