Shooting at Sunset

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spunkme99

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What the "best" way to capture those sweet golden rays at sunset?

I'm shooting guerrila style at a construction site and want to really emphasize the yellow, orange, and gold on the metal, on my talent. Going to shoot 24pa

Do I go with the preset white balance (the warm looking one), what about the "other" settings. Cinegama, all that? I've read the book, but I don't know what to apply for this situation.
 
Use the daylight preset at golden hour and it'll give you the rich warm yellow/gold tones. You can use the chroma level to saturate the color further if you want it to really be saturated.
 
Carry a LARGE bounceboard too. Sorry, I shoulde have elaborated. We shot this with JUST sunlight at sunset, but the bounce boards are necessary to light up the actors. If you look at this pic, these two actors are VERY bright. Otherwise, the backlight of the sunlight silouetted them too much.

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If shooting towards the sun during sunet, lets say in Moab, Utah, should you use a ND filter and let it go from there (time lapse or just recording a tapes worth of it)?
 
It depends, I don't like using just the preset since I can't tinker with the color temp any more with the HVX200 once I've chosen the preset.

I tend to do one of two things:

1. Set one of my color tempts around noon (which should be around the standard 5600k) and save that setting as either A or B. Then, at sunset, pop that one in which will give me the warm look and still have some freed to mess with a bit more in the camera.

2. Just white balance there, losing all the warmth, then bring it back using the color temperature settings. You can get as much more as little orange/yellow as you want this way. You can also, as Barry suggested, up the saturation to make the colors you get more intense and you can go ahead and mess with the chromo phase a bit if you want some more yellow in there.
 
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