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Solar Filters?

Gallery: Weekly ChallengePosted August 7, 2017200 views4 comments

We don't need no stinkin' solar filters! As Jim mentioned, we've been getting a lot of smoke from the British Columbia forest fires. While this has a bit the look of an eerie moon, it's a direct shot of the sun through the branches of a dead tree. I did have to bring up the bg quite a bit to get the texture to show better.

7Dii, Sigma 150-600 C @ 600 mm, hand held, f/9, 1/2000, iso 1000, aperture priority, pattern metering, -2 1/3 EV. Processed in LR & PS CC. Cropped to a 14 MP 4x5 before resizing. Taken August 3rd at 6:25 am (sunrise was at 5:15 so the sun was fairly high by this time).

Your comments and critiques are greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Comments

4 comments

Comment posted by David Schoen on August 7, 2017 at 6:04 PM

This is very cool! In fact NPN should have a contest for the most creative solar filter. The textures and shadows are very intriguing.

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Comment posted by Ed Williams on August 8, 2017 at 12:36 AM

The color of the sun is intriguing Dennis. Nice use of your surroundings and nice job bringing some life into the shadow world here.

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on August 8, 2017 at 10:20 AM

Amazingly heavy smoke/haze here Dennis, to make the sun this dim. It would like like a full moon, except that there isn't any structure in the glowing orb. Adding the shadows was a good idea and certainly adds to the spookiness of the view.

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Comment posted by Jim Gavin on August 8, 2017 at 2:01 PM

I have shots of the smokey sun both at morning and evening but not with the textured bg you have achieved here. Excellent.

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