Comparison

Yesterday morning there was a lovely view from my office window. The sky was all kinds of pretty colours from the remains of the sunrise. I tried taking the pictures two different ways. First, I used essentially "automatic" settings (P setting). (Note that both pictures were taken through the same window.)

Contrast that with the second picture, where I used the "sunset" presetting.

In the end, they are both failures. The first washed out a lot of the colour, while the second just made everything too dark. I will definitely have to take more direct control next time I want to capture colours in the sky, as leaving the camera to sort it out just results in disappointment. Lesson learned! (If I had to pick one, I would take the first. I think overall the colours are truer than in the second.)