Sun C&C

jackdaw

Hi ..
I took these at a sunset recently .. very high shutter speeds and at 300mm ..
(Canon EF 70-300 f4-5.6 IS)









I like the darker ones where you can see the "layers" of the sun.. (maybe the photosphere?? )

This can't damage the sensor no ? I mean they are very fast shutter speeds
at narrow apertures..

mike65

Pix are a bit big (we're not all on 21" screens)

You won't damage the sensor at dusk/dawn I'm sure.

The shots themselves are grand as far as they go - which isn't far. I find a sunset needs more than the sun, no matter how luscious/large it is.

Mike.

magicbastarder

is the layering not just an artefact of the earth's atmosphere rather than of the sun?

The third is excellent - I like it a lot.

The others are a bit empty for me

jackdaw

Thanks guys ..

I got other sunset shots the same night -.- ill post em on another C&C

these shots were purposefully just for that yellow ball of fire ..

hence the 300mm

kgiller

Hey Jackdaw,
Good work on these. I really like them. Well, actually, i like parts of all of them.

- I love the red sky in #1, but it is a bit dark in general
- I love the contrast between the sky and horizon in #3, but you lost the detail in the sun and the lovely red colour
- I love the "layering of the sun" as you called it in #4, but the lack of horizon and colour in the sky makes it very dark.

If you could somehow mix the two, maybe by layering in PS, keeping the red sky from #1, the horizon from #2 and the sun from #3, you could make an amazing shot.

Good work though, they are all very good shots.

Is the key to getting these kinds of shots having the high shutter speed? Whenever i have taken sunset shots, i have used slow speeds, like 1/60, although i havnt actually taken pictures directly at the sun.

rgiller

Number 3 is very nice, but then I'm a sucker for that deep orange sunset colour in photos so might be biased. Where did you find such a flat horizon? Also, what are you focusing on and taking your meter reading from? The sky adjacent to the sun?

Edit: woohoo 500th post!

jackdaw

rgiller wrote: »

Number 3 is very nice, but then I'm a sucker for that deep orange sunset colour in photos so might be biased. Where did you find such a flat horizon? Also, what are you focusing on and taking your meter reading from? The sky adjacent to the sun?

Edit: woohoo 500th post!

I was in Menorca .. so the sea was the perfect horizon ..

these shots i took the meter reading from the sky - not the sun (your supposed to do this with TP lenses)