Sun Beams

ISO 160; Shutter 1/640; F: 22.....done to create this special effect.

All special effects done in camera.

Thanks for the technical details. Now all I need is a sunset instead of rain. Nice shot, it looks great.

Christal,

Beautiful capture. This looks great in black & white. Happy New Year !!! Patsy

Ahhhh, very good.... like a scene from an old movie. I like it... Mike

 

 

Excellent work Christal...love the "starburst".....Happy New Year

Well done! ~~~~~~~L

Wonderful capture!

Nice framing of sun its star shaped appearance and reflections all add up to a pleasant rendering. Well done.

You have a winer on my boock. The whole image look well balanced to me. I don't mind the lack of detail on the dark foreground at all. leads the attention to the main topic.

Alex

happy 2010

 

very well done, actually, the more i look at this, the more i like it!

Nice capture of a difficult subject. The B&W works well. I like this shot as is but might try it cropped so that it isn't qite so centered. maybe take some off of the right. - Charles

Difficult is right! How did you get the sunburst without flare?

Thank you for your positive responses to this. It heartens me because I worked so hard to get this result. It was a bright afternoon on the Oregon coast, and my husband and I were sitting on a bench enjoying a glorious day and view. But I was frustrated that the light was so bright, so I started experimenting with my camera. I ended up shutting down the shutter to 1/640 while increasing to F:22. This 'tricked' the camera, and this was the end result. I learned a lot about the relationship between shutter speed and aperture while playing around, so overall it was time well spent. Oh, and the ISO was 160. And I will try the suggested crop off the right and see if I like it. Thank you!

Four years later, I still love this shot!

nice composition!

Yeah, I agree with you.  I don't understand how the voting works.  I saw that my other image (not this one) got more votes after the voting was supposed to be over.  I guess we could write to the new editor of PN and ask what's up.  But I don't worry about it too much.  I figure I'm not going to win anyway.  :-)   But it would be nice to at least understand it.  I'm glad to know it's not just me who doesn't understand it.  :-)  But that's weird that you're a member and you can't vote.  Something is definitely wrong there.  Thanks for your comment!