Thursday, January 14, 2010

Project 365, Day 14 ("Sun", Day 5)

Now I realize this photo is one of photography's biggest no-nos next to out of focus shots, but I really had only one chance to take this one (I was in a hurry and on my way out) and apart from the camera shake induced blur, it's still cool. Every bright surface in the picture has a sun burst, and there's a nice big flare all across the frame. As far as that goes, the exercise was a success!

Many will say that the photo could have been taken with, say, ISO 400 to get a stable 1/100sec shutter speed, and I realize that, but this photo would have been underexposed no matter what at f/18 and at ISO 400 and up, this camera gets pretty noisy.

Lens and camera settings:
50mm f/2.0 @ f/18, 1/25sec and ISO 100.

Coffee cup with flare

4 comments:

  1. You always have such interesting takes for the photo theme. Thank you for the added info on how to take it as well.

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  2. I know I said this already, but I love this. I wish the sun would come out properly here.

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  3. Wow, you are ricking those sun flares! I love them!

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  4. Oops, I mead "rocking" those sun flares...

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