Greetings, friends!
After showing you a few examples and writing about how it's done here in this tutorial, today I am going to give you another two examples with just the camera settings beneath.
Camera Settings:
Aperture F 22; Shutter Speed 1/6 sec.; ISO 100; Focal Length 16 mm.
I did use a tripod in this case. Taken at sunrise.
Camera Settings:
Aperture F 11; Shutter Speed 1/50 sec.; ISO 100; Focal Length 50 mm.
This time the camera was hand-held. Huge difference in light intensity during sunrise and afternoon. This photograph was taken in the afternoon while the Sun was still relatively high but I had obstructions...working in my favor ;)
It's ever there, the Sun, and when the sky is clear we can take advantage of it. Now, I remember a lesson about drawing as a kid. Do you remember how we put the sun in every picture we drew? A wise fellow told me it did not need to be so. That in most cases it's not in the frame. That in most cases it is not in our sight when we're looking at the sky. It is there, but we instinctively avoid meeting it since it's too bright.
But if you use the technique I spoke of in the linked post above, then you'll most often have an interesting character available in every outdoors shot. Well, almost. That character is the Sun that doesn't just look like a huge and diffuse white spot in your frame, anymore. It can be controlled to show its rays and hide some of its intensity behind something solid.
Well, enjoy your sun rays whenever you find them! Careful, they may cause burns. But so may anything that is worth enjoying.
So, good luck, have fun, and take care!
Yours,
Manol
