On Sat, 11 May 2002 18:19:39 GMT, "Tom McGlinn" wrote:

>For a commercial for a restaurant (for a small station) I am meant to shoot
>the usual things like the food and some interiors and exteriors, but, as
>this is a restaurant on a beach, they want me to shoot a couple having
>dinner on the deck with the sun going down behind them. I haven't got
>anything in the way of filters other than the ND filters in the camera. I
>can play around with the shutter speed and so on. Is there anything else
>that I should do? I can light the couple. If the couple are silhouettes it's
>okay as far as I'm concerned.

What the results look like will depend a lot on weather
conditions (and the look you want from the sky). On a
"murky" day, or at times with clouds, the sun may be only
a bit brighter than the surrounding sky, making it easier
to show it in the frame (then, some fill light can be
useful). If bright, the sun can be hidden behind one of
the people, and moved (with camera movement) to just be
revealed, making a "splash" star effect (possibly placed
between the couple's heads, just as they put them nearly
together[?]). The PD150 handles sun-shooting (and bright
tones in generall) well, but keep the shutter speed as
near to 1/60th as you can to minimize the "vertical beam"
effect. 'Speriment! ;-)