If you take a look at all the sunset photos you have taken over the years, what do you see?
Do they all look very similar? Or have you been able to find new ways of capturing the sun going below the horizon? This article gave me a lot to think about…
Potographer Stefano Unterthiner recently posted a photo of a sunset on Instagram with this caption: “I’m not a big fan of sunsets, but yesterday evening was very special! The sky above my home in #Italy #valledaosta.” The reaction was mixed.
The photo received over 400,000 likes, but many of the thousands of comments on the image called him out on his proclaimed disdain for the setting of our solar system’s trusty star.
Here are some examples:
- “Don’t be dumb. Everyone loves a good sunset.”
- “Usually not a big fan of sunsets, said no one ever except for this guy.”
- “That’s like not liking the Beatles …”
- “I bet you’re not a fan of many things.”
- “Grrrrrr this sunset is making me so angry, puppies, newborns, and kittens are all the same …”
- “wtf???”
Unterthiner wanted to explain himself, explain why he chose to post that particular image. “I was amazed by the shape of the clouds and the blue spot on the right corner. It was a balance of dark color, shape, and composition.”
He’s not a beauty hater. In fact, he enjoys witnessing the sun sink beneath the horizon. “On the beach with my wife with a beer in my hand, I’m a lover of sunsets,” he says to me over the phone. But as a photographer, he’s looking for something more complex. “Sunsets are boring because everyone is taking photos of the sky getting red when the sun approaches the horizon. A very classic sunset is very far from photography—it’s very close to our memories and our pictures on holiday. It belongs more to your daily life than real photography.”
Read the full article over at National Geographic.
Source: National Geographic
