Glorious Sunset

Glorious Sunset, Cardrona Range – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Art Gallery

Glorious Sunset, Cardrona Range – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Art Gallery

This is an unframed, limited edition collection, landscape photography print of only 25 units. It is printed on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Pearl papers, structured to refract the highest values in colour and detail. It’s high-quality ink absorbing layer enables exceptional image quality with enormously detailed sharpness, and a very broad colour range, providing archival permanency of your artwork for over 100 years.

Sony A6000, handheld, 16mm, F10, 1/60th sec, ISO 100, no filter, processed in Lightroom.

I sat on top of a section of the Cardrona range near a wheel chain fitting area, and watched as the sky began to go a vibrant red. I knew the right angle would catch a starburst as the setting sun dipped behind the mountains. The view was extremely bright and I wanted to make sure that the colour as well as the brightness of the sun was captured in full glory.

Glorious Sunset, Cardrona Range – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Art Gallery

Sunrises and sunsets are just magical at anytime. If you want to catch a starburst of any degree in these kinds of images, you’ll need to master your aperture and your watch. Firstly position yourself so that you can’t quite see all of the sun, In other words partially block it with another part of the landscape or landmark. If it’s a the horizon, you just have to wait and watch. (?  haha, see told you). Next change your settings to AV or Aperture priority and choose an F stop between 10 and 22. The higher the number the tighter the light will have to squeeze through your lens and so the stringer the starburst will appear. Remember your tripod as well, as AV settings will often mean slow shutter speeds as well.