Smooth color gradation is one of the most tricky tasks for your camera's sensor. This is one area that can be used to determine the quality of your camera's sensor. Check out the technical specifications of your sensor. The higher the bit rate the better for color gradations. The number of possible color combinations impact color gradation. The higher the possible color combinations the better.

          How can we maximize the smoothness of color gradations? How does image editing affect the quality of color gradation?

Here are some tips to help you to get the most out of your color gradations:

• Shoot raw. Raw files are taken at a higher bit depth than JPG which are only 8 bit files.

• Covert your raw files to 16 bit tiff files. We do not want to be saving to JGP files to the very end.

• Do all your editing work with the tiff files. Only save to JPG once you are done will all editing. I save both tiff and JPG files.

• Give your exposure enough light (at least in the area where color gradation is). Color gradations become grainy when the exposure does not have enough light.

Feature color gradations as such images are often very pleasing and calm. Include a large portion of the sky. Make sure there are lots of color. Boost the vibrance of the image a bit to enhance the color.