Fasteddy66 Loc: Connecticut

This was taken with an MD Minolta lens

Sony A7 w/Minolta lens 300mm

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Dngallagher Loc: Wilmington De.

Is there a filter on the lens?

Fasteddy66 Loc: Connecticut

No filter does the lens need a hood?

Dngallagher Loc: Wilmington De.

A hood helps for sure. It appears the wires are behind the halo, so a hood may resolve the issue. Unless there is a smudge on the lens of course.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I don't see any halos. Are they really a problem? Can you point me in the right direction? How about lens flare?

Erv Loc: Medina Ohio

I think they are talking about the roof of the house Jerry. Looks like a len hood would help.

Dngallagher Loc: Wilmington De.

Jerry - above the birds head where the phone lines come across is a white smudge on the roof of the house behind the bird house.

Didereaux Loc: Swamps of E TX

There is no real bothersome haloing in that picture. Way up close you have a small amount of chromatic aberration. If you do not have a specific filter in your post app all you really need to do (and this is almost in every outdoor shot) is reduce the saturation of the purples and magenta, then twiddle with their luminescence after lowering the sat. In this picture I would so the sane with the blue. Adjust it gradually.

Fasteddy66 Loc: Connecticut

Thank you, I thinking that the Halo (Light Reflection, on the roof) is just external (unwanted) light getting into the front of the Minolta lens?

Fasteddy66 Loc: Connecticut

Is that what its called (chromatic aberration), caused by a round lens, on a full frame sensor??

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

??? I guess I need a new monitor. :D

Bill Houghton Loc: New York area

Hope this helps Jerry

Apaflo Loc: Anchorage, Alaska

The larger white haze is flare. But just below, as the wires cross the edge of the house it is also very clear that the over exposure is causing flare that also appears as "blooming" highlights.

That is a not uncommon when shooting a picture inside and an area through a window shows a very bright outside that is grossly over exposed.

In this case I'd guess you might have been using spot metering? If the bird house alone is measured/examined the exposure is just about right. On the sunny side facing right the highlights are all clipping on edges. For that an Exposure Compensation of maybe -1/3 or -1/2 would have been perfect. But more is needed if the bright areas behind the bird house are included...

This is a case where ETTR, shooting in RAW mode, and judging exposure by looking at the histogram would have worked very well.

It would have looked much better to shoot with something from 2 to 4 stops less light. The 1/13 shutter speed could have been perhaps 1/30, or even a little faster. Then in post processing a curves tool could be used to get the effect of HDR by mapping the lower tones to higher brightness levels. That would leave the bright areas at just below clipping, but move the shadows, which would be the bird and most of that side of the bird house, up from very dark to something quite like it is in the image you are showing.

There would be more noise in that part of the image than there is in this one. But this version just isn't useful.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Thanks. Interesting. Looks like flare, but not something that would bother me.

Fasteddy66 Loc: Connecticut

Thanks for all of your help!! Its all very interesting information for a novice like me.

I did try a lens hood and that seemed to help.