Theme Thursday: Sun Flare

We had 2.2 minutes of sunshine and boy, was I ready.  I had already googled "how to photograph a sun flare," and came away with a few directions.

• Must have sunlight.
• Focus on something between the camera and the sun.
• Use a big F stop, which means a tiny aperture, or as I like to call it, "light hole."
• Use a low-ish ISO.
• Use a slow-ish shutter speed.
• Set the white balance to cloudy.  Or sunny.  Depending on the weather.
• Take the setting off green square and go to that new territory called "M."
• Try, try again.  Don't let anybody tell you that you can't take pictures of the sun.  You know who you are.

So after dozens of click-delete-reset-repeat, I got this:





1/80s, F22, ISO400

HA!  It can be done!  This is on my front porch.  That, my friends, is the sun.



Everything was the same, except I lowered the exposure time to 1/60 of a second.  No multi-colored bubbles.



I don't own any version of Photoshop and I haven't gone to Picasa yet.  I use Creative Memories Memory Manager, because I used to (and would still like to be) big into scrapbooking.  I bought their program to sort and save my pictures, and I use their editing tools too.  But not today.  Everything you see today is SOOC.  That means Straight Out of the Camera.  PW taught me that.

Blarg.  Sometimes Blogger lets me put captions, and sometimes it doesn't.  Does anyone else have this problem?

 

Anyway, Sun Flare #3 has all the same settings as above, just a different arch on my front porch.

 

 

Same as before.  1/60s F22 ISO400.  Stupid blogger.  I guess I only get two captions along with my two minutes of sun. 

 

See more and better photography skillz over at Clan Donaldson's Theme Thursday link-up. 

This post was brought to you toddler-free by two episodes of Shaun the Sheep.