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Shasoc wrote:
Thank you Socrate for your patience and encouragement
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lighthound wrote:
This doesn't help you now after the fact, but for future shots like this where you want to shoot straight into the sun for a sunstar there is a trick you can do to remedy flares like you have here.
Take your shot that includes the sunstar then take another one exactly the same but put your finger in front of the sun coming in from the top. When you get back home you will have a flare free image that you can then simply brush in the areas affected by the flare. Just make sure you're in full manual mode so that the exposure is locked, otherwise the camera's metering will try to change the exposure.
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That's an awesome tip, Dave! Thanks so much for sharing it! Hoping to try it in the near future
lighthound wrote:
You didn't hang around long enough to get a shot just after the sun had set did you? With those clouds, it looks like you might have gotten a little light show of color.
Unfortunately there was a lot of jostling for space, - Montparnasse Tower has a glass enclosure for safety, with slits in the glass to allow camera lenses for photography. The tower management also allows people to simply plonk their tripods for hours on end, and those inconsiderate folks completely spoil the evening for everyone else - once you arrive at the top during golden hour, all you can see are tripods, not the city. I had to beg and plead some of them just to let me squeeze in, and grab a few bracketed handheld shots. The Eiffel tower was wonderful in comparison. No tripods, so people kept moving and didn't hog the space.
lighthound wrote:
Your edit is improved but I might watch the shadows as it feels a little unnatural to me seeing so much detail while looking into the sun.
Dave
True.. Thanks for pointing it out I will need to revisit that part again.
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RustyBug wrote:
Took a stab at the flare. It's still there, but hopefully it draws less than before, so you can explore the scene a bit more freely. Could be better, but you get the gist.
This is great, Kent, thanks a lot, for showing me what is possible with the flare. I loved the fact that the prismatic effect is gone. I will make some edits and re-post in a few days.
Thanks again!
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