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What I do at Mesa Arch for sunburst is to try a trick from a Charles Muench seminar. He said take the shot with 1/16 of the sun showing with the rest behind something. In this case the lower part of the arch.
This happens fast and as it approaches, I use burst mode because I also want to bracket. I have one in the first page of "The best 3 landscape images of 2013" post. As it turned out, I was able to use one shot.
I still had a bit of flare to remove, but of all the shots I took from the first sliver of sun over the La Sals, to the last one before it disappeared behind the arch, only the last burst was free of most flare.
Another trick is to put you finger over the lens in front of the sun and expose for the main scene, then do one exposed for the sun and blend them. But the 1/16 method works for me.
By the way, the streaks are what makes a sunburst, so you want to keep them, the blobs in your image are the unwanted part of flare. Generally there are even larger ones.
Edited on Jan 04, 2014 at 10:10 PM · View previous versions
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