Sunset at Ana Sagar, Ajmer

Sunsets at lakes are getting to be a cliche. You really have to louse things up to make a sunset at lake photo come out bad. At Ana Sagar lake, Ajmer.

Sunset at Hussain Sagar

Another reason why I need to find out if there is a way to do selective exposure. In the first picture at normal exposure, the hues of the sun come out well, in dark-orange-ish sunset tones. But the details of the water surface towards the right side of the photograph are too dark to notice.

In the second photo with increased exposure, the right side comes out better with the actual light of the approaching twilight. But the sun now appears too bright for a nearing sunset. What I would like to combine is the sun of the first picture with the water of the second. Too much to ask for? Sunset at Hussain Sagar lake in Hyderabad.

Baga beach

Sunset at Baga beach, Goa. In retrospect, should have captured less of the water, but I guess I wanted to get the reflected hues of the dying sun.
If you enlarge the photograph, you will see two figures on the rock silhouetted against the sun. I would like to believe I shot that after planning :-)

Monsoon evening

From the rooftop at home. The bush in front is actually a treetop silhouetted by the peeping sun a short while before sunset.