Three Techniques for Shooting the Sun

Three techniques for photographing the sun are as follows:

1, pay attention to the exposure.

Shooting the sun, the sun is a strong light source, which is very easy to overexpose, so we must pay attention to avoid overexposure and follow the principle of "less is better than explosion".

The following exposure methods can be considered, such as spot metering of the sun, manual adjustment of exposure parameters within m range, and evaluation of metering to reduce exposure compensation, among which aperture is recommended because it can ensure the normal exposure of the sun.

2, the aperture is small.

One of the characteristics of small aperture is that when shooting a point light source, the smaller the aperture, the more obvious the diffraction phenomenon of light, and it is easy to shoot the effect that the point light source emits stars.

Because of the optical characteristics, when shooting the starlight effect, whether it is the sun or a street lamp, the priority is to narrow the aperture. When shooting the sun, the aperture of F 1 1 is generally used to obtain the star-awning effect. The smaller the aperture, the more obvious the effect, so remember that the small aperture is the key to shooting the star.

The composition of the sun should be very small.

When shooting the sun, we should pay attention to reducing the proportion of the sun in the picture to form a point light source. If the proportion of the sun is too large, the influence of optical characteristics will be much reduced, and it is not easy to produce stars, but it will become a light ball.

In addition, in addition to the small proportion of the sun when shooting the sun, you can also mix some scenes, such as shooting the sun through branches and leaves, and the wider the lens, the more obvious the shooting effect will be.