Matter of inches
This is an image that I took over a year ago around the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at UCSD. I tried to stand in the middle of the path and have the sunburst off to the side to fill the empty sky. I kept on fiddling around with my camera position until I could eliminate the lens flare since I was using such a small aperture; I think once you get into the f/11 and above range you need to watch out for the sun flares. In this case I had my aperture to f/13 so it was moving it for a few inches and all was good 🙂
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A beautiful and high quality shot. This looks amazing!
March 22, 2012 at 6:31 am
Thanks Robby, much appreciated 🙂
March 22, 2012 at 7:38 am
You’re welcome.
March 22, 2012 at 8:12 am
Cool – did you by chance study geophysics?
March 22, 2012 at 6:44 am
No, I studied Mechanical Engineering so there was a a lot physics but not much geology 🙂
March 22, 2012 at 7:38 am
Excellent shot. I love the sunflare and how you’ve composed the whole image.
March 22, 2012 at 7:30 am
Thank you, glad you liked it 🙂
March 22, 2012 at 7:39 am
Amazing shot…. I know how tough it can be to shoot into the sun. Love it.
March 22, 2012 at 3:50 pm
How beautiful! 🙂
March 22, 2012 at 9:49 pm
Great shot, love the burst that you acquired in the window as well!!! 🙂 **
March 22, 2012 at 10:33 pm
That looks like the stairway/elevator that goes down to street level so one can get to the Scripps Institute of Oceanography.
On another thought, have you ever set the exposure compensation to -2 or -3 for a picture like that? I do it all the time, and it creates some beautiful sunset pictures without waiting around for the sun to actually set. Saves hours sometimes!
March 23, 2012 at 9:06 am
Yes that is that elevator 🙂 As for the exposure compensation, this is an HDR of 6 images [-3,-2,-1,0,+1,+2] so that was included in it. I do know what you are referring to but I seldom use it as sunsets = HDR for me 99.9% of the time 🙂
March 23, 2012 at 9:15 am
In what program do you do your HDR. I’m just now starting to explore it.
March 23, 2012 at 9:18 am
Photomatix is King… all the others are a waste of time in my humble opinion. Any questions you have about it, just ask 🙂 Even if you want, one day we can go grab a coffee at starbucks or something and I’ll show you how I go about them.
March 23, 2012 at 9:24 am
I like the ‘twin suns’, they balance very well.
March 24, 2012 at 2:55 pm
I admit that it was a pleasant accident 🙂
March 25, 2012 at 5:46 am
very, very beatuful…:) good luck! 🙂
March 26, 2012 at 9:43 pm
Thank you very much 🙂
March 26, 2012 at 10:49 pm
This is a beautiful scene
March 31, 2012 at 6:15 am
This is an amazing image! Love everything about it.
March 31, 2012 at 1:41 pm
Thanks a lot, appreciate it
March 31, 2012 at 1:44 pm
Great perspective! I too had such instances where just a few inches mattered to capture a good photograph!
March 31, 2012 at 10:13 pm
Yeah I really need to move. Your photos of Cali make me long to visit a place I really had no interest in seeing!
April 5, 2012 at 7:06 am
Beautiful shot. Love the house!
April 13, 2012 at 1:21 pm
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it 🙂
April 13, 2012 at 1:25 pm