Two photos taken essentially at the same time, same frame and similar settings. One image uses an aperture of f8 the second f32 - the outcome was pretty dramatic and unexpected.
These are unedited. What caused the spots and sun flare on the second photo. I'm thinking aperture is the cause but why?
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was the camera on a tripod or hand held? Sometimes it is the angel in which you hit the sun that it gives those spots and glares, or dust particles on lens.
MLKstudios wrote: You're right about the aperture changing the sun shape. Also, it appears you have some spots on your lens, and the extra DoF brought them into focus.
I like the first one best.
I was thinking dirt on a filter or lens - but the difference was so noticeable... that surprised me when I saw it. I need to look at them closely.
Any other theories?
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The filter would be my guess. Even a clean filter can refract some very bright spots at certain angles. Suggest you clean the lens and shoot without the filter.
What metering did you use (spot?) and where did you take your reading?
What mode were you in? You could have exceeded the shutter speed range for the aperture?
It's a beautiful sunset (or rise) and the wide range of tones is tough enough.
Dori I like that star effect you got w/the sun. You know what you could do maybe to get rid of the flare at the top is crop the photo some; those branches at the very top aren't doing a whole lot for your photo. You could crop the top and maybe the left side a little and see how it looks. You've got a pretty cool photo there.
You know Charles looking at the top photo again, I think you've got a little flare going in that one too, it's just not that noticeable. I've gotten some weirdo flare at times that I think was just the way the light was hitting the lens.
chasrich wrote: Two photos taken essentially at the same time, same frame and similar settings. One image uses an aperture of f8 the second f32 - the outcome was pretty dramatic and unexpected.
These are unedited. What caused the spots and sun flare on the second photo. I'm thinking aperture is the cause but why?
Looks like your lens has seven aperture blades in it Charles! 14 points divided by 2 = 7. Fun stuff!
MLKstudios wrote: You're right about the aperture changing the sun shape. Also, it appears you have some spots on your lens, and the extra DoF brought them into focus.
I like the first one best.
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