It\’s the quintessential landscape photo: the sunset, nature\’s own daily-painted masterpiece of texture, color and lightweight. And for this week\’s Shooting Challenge, I would like you to move out and capture the poor, workhorse of a celebrity\’s soul.

I don\’t wish to specialise in this point any more. But before we move on, I\’d prefer to request anyone collaborating this week to actually take part this week. We all have sunset photos in our collection-definitely be at liberty to share them inside the comments. But within the spirit of Shooting Challenges, weekly homework that helps us all grow as a creative community, let\’s all do something new. Cool? Cool.

The Challenge

Capture a sunset however you adore, just include those fleeting moments somehow as element of your photo.

The Method

Technically, photographing a sunset isn\’t extremely difficult as long as you will have a tripod. But scouting a location prior to time to frame your shot-maybe the day before-is a key to success.

Squidoo points out that wide angle lenses will often just shrink the scale of the sun to your frame. Telephoto will be the way you wish to go.

World During the Lens warns to be wary of unnatural light sources mixing to your frame as they may be unpredictable.

SLR Photography Guide suggests an aperture of f/8 – f/11 to get the complete image in focus.

Of course, i’ll see success in breaking the foundations on any of those tips. And we haven\’t even mentioned the probabilities of HDR.

My personal, practical suggestion could be that everyone able to shooting in RAW does so. Adjusting white balance on the fly is superb, but sitting in Photoshop later, tweaking what\’s just interpreted sensor data anyway, will give you the possibility for the color to be perfectly represented basically regardless of what happens within the field.

The Rules – READ THESE

1. Submissions must be your personal.
2. Photos must be taken the week of the contest.
3. Explain, briefly, the equipment, settings, technique and story behind shot.
4. Email submissions to contests@gizmodo.com, not me.
5. Include 800px wide image (200KB or less) AND a 2560×1600 sized in email. (The 800px image is the single judged, so be at liberty to crop/alter the larger image for wallpaper-sized dimensions.)
6. One submission per person.
7. Use the suitable SUBJECT line on your email (more info on that below)

Send your best photo by Sunday, August 1st at 11PM Eastern to contests@gizmodo.com with \” Sunset\” inside the subject line. Save your files as JPGs, and use a FirstnameLastnameSunset.jpg (800px wide) and FirstnameLastnameSunsetWallpaper.jpg (2560px wide) naming conventions. Include your shooting summary (camera, lens, ISO, etc) inside the body of the email which includes a story of the shot in a number of sentences. And don\’t skip this story part because it\’s often probably the most enjoyable part for us all beyond the shot itself!

[Lead Image by *L*u*z*A*]

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