I'm Watching You... by Kroneage

The Eyes in the sky. A very creepy sunset indeed...

These two holes happend to be the only sunlight shining through the clouds during a sunset after a big rainstorm.

Here's a better view of the insanely long comment I wrote below in response to lordcooler.

"I use just a Sanyo VPC-FH1 Dual Camera capable of 1080p 60fps video and 12mpixel photos. It sells for only about $400, but for such a low price it has a surprisingly in-depth array of manual functions. I find myself using it more and more often now over a dedicated photo-camera because I only have to pack around one camera for both functions. It's not spectacular, but it does the job.             

As for filters, I generally don't like to use filters, except in a few cases where they would prove beneficial. The great thing about sunsets is that they are so colorful! If all your camera settings are correct on a native level, you shouldn't need them except, perhaps, to portray a certain, distinct emotion. In most cases, I find that filters actually detract from the original photo. However, there are also always those times when you run into an otherwise "perfect" shot; perfectly framed, perfect angle, and perfect moment that can never be replicated.... but... it's under or over exposed! It's all washed out and doesn't properly represent the true colors and lighting of the environment! >.< It makes your heart sink. Those are the times when it might be necessary to nudge the saturation and contrast [lightly] and possibly lower the gamma settings to suck a little bit of extra color out of the picture, but don't over do it!! Thankfully, as I'm getting more experienced with camera settings, I almost never run into those situations anymore.

Here is the original of this photo in the link below. This is an example of one that, looking back, I probably should have just left alone. The color in the original is weak, and I wanted to make it more appealing in the thumbnail, so I added some red filter, lowered gamma, lightly nudged saturation and contrast, and came out with maybe a bit too much of an "Angry God" look and feel... that was not the original emotion.

https://www.box.net/shared/static/y6rcn2tmq3.jpg

Here is a few examples of a sunset that will need no colorspace editing whatsoever. This was truly an epic sunset. Take a look at the EXIF data on any of these to see the camera settings.

https://www.box.net/shared/static/5xuzu53un2.jpg

https://www.box.net/shared/static/ibdvke8n8s.jpg

https://www.box.net/shared/static/v91frpn4fx.jpg

Most of the color in the sunsets around here is due to an effect called "Rayleigh Scattering" - light scattering through various airborne particles (smoke, fog, heavy rain (in the purple lightning photos), ash etc.). For example, in the instance of some of the mustard yellow sunsets; which were mostly caused by smoke from nearby forest fires. I just thought I'd clear that up because a lot of people have been asking questions about the color in my photos.

Another thing I use to extract the greatest possible native color from a sunset environment is the auto-white balance setting - I set it on "cloudy", or manually any setting in that range.

I've only been taking pictures seriously for about a year now so I don't really know much. Everything I understand, I have learned from trial and error, intuition, and carefully observing the composition of others' photos. Whether they be Joe Smoe with a point and shoot or a National Geographic magazine, I am always finding something new to learn... and always will."