Comments on: Fried Eyeballs, Fried Eggs, and Photographing the Sun http://www.digitalfieldguide.com/blog/385 Digital Photographs and Techniques from Harold Davis Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:17:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Harold Davis http://www.digitalfieldguide.com/blog/385#comment-43436 Harold Davis Mon, 08 Oct 2007 00:49:19 +0000 http://www.digitalfieldguide.com/blog/385#comment-43436 @shixing9: The problem is the relative brightness of the sun and everything else. If you expose for the sun, you get some colors in the sun, including an occasional red (here's <a href="http://www.digitalfieldguide.com/blog/979" rel="nofollow">an example</a>), but the background will go very dark ost of the time. An exposure that shows detail in the landscape will necessarily overexpose the sun, blowing it out and causing the white look. If you want to try for a colored sun, try underexposing your images relative tot he overall landscape by 4 or more stops. @shixing9: The problem is the relative brightness of the sun and everything else. If you expose for the sun, you get some colors in the sun, including an occasional red (here’s an example), but the background will go very dark ost of the time. An exposure that shows detail in the landscape will necessarily overexpose the sun, blowing it out and causing the white look.

If you want to try for a colored sun, try underexposing your images relative tot he overall landscape by 4 or more stops.

]]> By: shixing9 http://www.digitalfieldguide.com/blog/385#comment-43430 shixing9 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 00:36:27 +0000 http://www.digitalfieldguide.com/blog/385#comment-43430 The color of the sun in your pictures appear white, similar to the sunset pictures I took the other day although the color of the sun was bright red. Why did the sun's red color becomes white in the picture? Is it possible to capture the "real" red color of the sun? Thanks The color of the sun in your pictures appear white, similar to the sunset pictures
I took the other day although the color of the sun was bright red. Why did the sun’s red color becomes white in the picture? Is it possible to capture the “real” red color of the sun?

Thanks

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