First of all, I want to be able to shoot something as beautiful as this, as these sun rays are amazing! Also, I want to shoot this with HDR in mind, as I want to try some HDR photography when I visit Joshua Tree in 2 weeks.
First of all, I want to be able to shoot something as beautiful as this, as these sun rays are amazing! Also, I want to shoot this with HDR in mind, as I want to try some HDR photography when I visit Joshua Tree in 2 weeks.
Any suggestions on how to achieve this?
Low aperture (f/16, f/22, etc.) and bracket your images. If you're shooting in RAW, don't bother making your bracket differential less than a stop, because it's easy to push or pull a stop in post-processing. Make sure your lowest exposure is dark enough that nothing but the sun itself is blown out, and that your highest exposure gets lots of detail in the shadows.
Thank you so much for your quick response! Also, do you think that sun ray in the photo is natural or do you think they used a filter on the lens? It looks incredible!
I just this one very similar in style but didnt get the star around the sun. What I did was pick an aperture and using exposure compensation underexposed until even the sun wasn't blown out. Then in 1 stop increments I increased the exposure until the rock on the left was perfectly exposed. I just looked at the LCD of the photo. I think making sure you have the whole dynamic range is key, and the closer you are to getting each part perfectly exposed the best chance you have. Remember a tripod. :)
I would have loved to have cited the photographer, but he wasn't listed on the site. I don't even know if Josh took the photo or just reported the poppies with a friend's photo. Regardless, I do prefer to cite the photographer if I know who he/she is.
Anyhow, thanks for the tips! I hope to get some good images when I get out there in a few weeks!
