Tips for Better Sunset Photography

"The biggest cliché in photography is sunrise and sunset." — Catherine Opie, photographer. It's true perhaps that these natural spectacles have been overused as photographic subjects. Yet should you happen to have a camera in hand when the landscape is lit by the shades of twilight, it's pretty hard to resist taking just one more shot. During a holiday this year on pretty Marco Island, Florida, my daughter and I actually started laughing when I picked up the camera for the fourth consecutive night to try and do justice to the crimson, orange and magenta tinting the sky above the gulf. Every night the blend had offered subtle differences in tone, each seeming more memorable than the one before. However, in checking the results it was difficult to tell where one session began and another ended. With dozens of very similar images, my efforts had indeed become clichéd. The question now then is whether I can change that. Tomorrow, I'm heading out on a little