Scott Kelley Photography

No, I dont have a problem, this is Christmas Eve's Eve's sunset taken by yours truly at a friend of mines house, or log cabin house. Its one of those kit houses where they truck you the materials and drop them off at your lot and leave. Well enough about the house heres the picture,

The EXIF is as follows.

F8.0 1/500 ISO100  DEC 23 1628

if your new at this, F8.0 is the aperature, 1/500 is the shutter speed, ISO100 is well the ISO, and DEC 23 is the date and 1628 is the time. Now, finding someplace to shoot something similar to this is easy. First I saw the sunet and began to size up how to take the picture and then I thought, well maybe not and walked back to my car and when I saw the sun go behind the house I thought, perfect sillouette. If your shooting with a "serious ameatur" camera like mine with all kinds of features but is also fully manual , go into manual mode. Set the focus to MF or Manual Focus and focus it to infinty. Then  come down a little until you see its perfectly clear. Next make sure your standing in the shadow of the object your intending on taking the picture of, then re-focus if you need to but make sure your focus is on the clouds and sky. Next, set your aperature to the smallest(higher the number the smaller) and then change your shutter speed to a medium high number. Then half click your shutter and the screen will show all your settings affected to the lens (if using a "serious ameatur" camera)   which then means your photo should come out like this. If your satisfied with the colors and view of the photo, click the shutter the rest of the way and presto, theres your silloutted image.