Taken from my driveway looking up at the sky. I was trying to get the texture of the clouds, but none of them gave the impact that the sun did. It kept peeking in and out so I thought, "what the heck" let's try it!
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Thanks for the comments! I have a UV filter on my lens so hopefully that has helped to protect it. I was wearing my high powered UV blocker sunglasses too! I haven't noticed any degradation in my camera this week after taking this shot (and a few others) so hopefully I didn't ruin my camera. I wasn't looking directly at the sun, (my camera has a LCD screen, (not a TTL viewfinder) . After reading all these comments, I won't recommend that you try and do this yourself!
But here are the details for those that asked... I used a -1.5 EV and set the camera on the "Beach & Ski" mode (for taking photos in bright light). I used Microsoft PhotoEditor and cropped out a bit of the house, set the contrast at 60 and the brightness at 40 (default is 50) I reduced the red to .83 and increased the blue to 1.33 (default 1.0 on both). Resized to 640x427
Good shot with the silhouetted branches. But it has to be said be careful when taking shots like this, directly at the sun, DON’T use the viewfinder !!!
Subtitle: the last thing a digicam ever sees. If you don't have a ttl, optical viewfinder (ie. you have to compose using the LCD with the CCD exposed to the sun for more than an instant), this can destroy your CCD, and if you do it can destroy your eye (at least so I've heard). That said, not a bad image.
You'll ruin your eyes looking straight at the sun like that :-) Was the pinkish cast there, or is that some sort of lens effect comparable to what happens to your eyes when you do that?
Very definitely a "from the ground up" shot. Personally, I think though that the sun and flare it too overpowering. The tree branches are a little soft, too.
This is an interesting shot! The sun is off center... in a shot liek this, I would prefer to see the sun either centered or at one of the 'thirds' intersection points as described in the rule of thirds...
Nice flare. I like the exposure control... Not underexposed, but i can see something besides sun. Very nice. Critique? Um..... I'm thinking... Okay, I dont know how it could be improved in such a difficult setting, cause i'm not exactly an expert... But there is a lot of pixelation on the trees.
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