Showing posts with label halo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label halo. Show all posts

Monday, September 22, 2008

Halo of the sun

ok..here are those pictures of the halo of the sun. Thanks a bunch to Dian who excitedly call me and then half screaming she goes "go outside and look at the sun!!". i gotta admit for a split second there i thought the sun is exploding into dust or something.

Turn out there were this huge halo forming around it. And as an aspiring photographer it won't do justice if i didn't snap a few.

enjoy (click on the pic for larger view)





here are some technical data for those interested:

1st of all this is 12.30 pm and the sun is shining on its full glory, no matter how fast the speed and small the aperture you use without a help of a filter you will get a wash out pic.
And since i don't own the super black ND800 i just have to make do with all the less dark ND i got, and end up with 3 filters on my lense!! which is ND4x, ND8x, and CPL!!
(ND= neutral density, which is basically a dark filter to reduce light into your lense. CPL=circular polarizer, for reducing glare and enhance blue tone in the sky)

F/11 speed was 1/60. the thick filters i used and the frontal super bright sun throw off the focusing a lil bit, so gotta focus it manually, and later or bring in the shadow in PS to show more detail and tune up the saturation a lil bit too.