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Sep 15, 2020 08:39:23 #
When Shooting Sunrise/Sunset Photos my sun always comes out white not red.
Do I need a filter, or ????
Do I need a filter, or ????
Sep 15, 2020 08:46:30 #
Sep 15, 2020 08:54:27 #
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Sep 15, 2020 08:56:33 #
Sep 15, 2020 09:02:06 #
photobug.2 wrote:
When Shooting Sunrise/Sunset Photos my sun always comes out white not red.
Do I need a filter, or ????
Do I need a filter, or ????
Depends on your goal. If you want just a red sun and sky/clouds, and don't care about everything else being in silhouette, then just expose for the sun - using your camera's spot meter, and maybe add 1 stop exposure to the reading. you can always darken/saturate in post processing.
If you want visible foreground "stuff" - you can take two bracketed exposures - one for the sun (as above) and the other for the foreground (shutter speed and/or adjusted only to keep the same depth of field), and merge the exposures in Photoshop or Lightroom, or some other HDR merging software.
Or, you can shoot raw, expose as in the first example, and reveal the shadows in your raw converter.
It all depends on what you are after. . .
Sep 15, 2020 10:49:41 #
Sep 15, 2020 10:50:06 #
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Sep 15, 2020 10:51:18 #
Sep 15, 2020 13:01:44 #
Two exposures, one for the sun and one for everything else. Combine the two images in post.
Sep 16, 2020 08:33:35 #
Sep 16, 2020 11:14:49 #
"When Shooting Sunrise/Sunset Photos my sun always comes out white not red.
Do I need a filter, or ????" photobug.2
On a Nikon set WB to K2500 and use highlight weighted metering...
Deploy Bracketing with 1 stop intervals... shoot 5 brackets...
You'll get a red sun... if you use HDR you'll even get detail elsewhere (with a amber color tint) in the frame... EZ, try it...
Caveat: NEVER view the sun with an optical viewfinder! Ask you ophthalmologist why, k?
Hope this helps photobug.2
All the best on your journey...
Do I need a filter, or ????" photobug.2
On a Nikon set WB to K2500 and use highlight weighted metering...
Deploy Bracketing with 1 stop intervals... shoot 5 brackets...
You'll get a red sun... if you use HDR you'll even get detail elsewhere (with a amber color tint) in the frame... EZ, try it...
Caveat: NEVER view the sun with an optical viewfinder! Ask you ophthalmologist why, k?
Hope this helps photobug.2
All the best on your journey...
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Sep 16, 2020 12:32:59 #
Sep 16, 2020 13:10:43 #
photobug.2 wrote:
When Shooting Sunrise/Sunset Photos my sun always comes out white not red.
Do I need a filter, or ????
Do I need a filter, or ????
All you need is air so polluted by the smoke of numerous fires that your eyes burn and your nose runs, then you can look directly at the sun and take the time to compose the shot. No filter needed, but a mask will help with camera shake and other breathing requirements.
Sep 16, 2020 13:50:11 #
photobug.2 wrote:
THANKS
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Sep 16, 2020 14:46:12 #
photobug.2 wrote:
When Shooting Sunrise/Sunset Photos my sun always comes out white not red.
Do I need a filter, or ????
Do I need a filter, or ????
Sunsets are high dynamic range shots. The matrix exposure meter will average the light and overexposed the sun and wash out the color. Spot metering on the sun will expose sun correctly but shadows may be crushed. Somewhere in between is a compromise that you can work in post.
A secondary effect is WB which if set to auto will tend to adjust color away from the nice red that our eyes see. Don’t use auto WB.
Shooting raw will give you a few more dB of dynamic range which can help with sunsets.
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