Into the Sun
Another shot using the TTArtisans 23mm manual focus lens. The lens is really far from ideal. Here I was testing for flare. This lens loses so much contrast when shooting into the sun. To be honest this is a very tough test for any lens because of the sun reflecting off of the snow. Even trying to look at the scene by eye showed lots of flare and little detail. One great thing about mirrorless cameras is how when looking through the viewfinder you will not damage your vision when looking straight into the sun. I exposed hoping to try to keep some kind of detail in the highlights and in the sky, knowing the shadows would be severely underexposed, and accepted that knowing that I wanted a high contrast image as a final result.
It took some fiddling with this shot in Adobe Camera Raw using a few masks to try to get a dramatic look to the sky especially, and to get detail in the snow covered bits of the Bike Pump track at Hillside park here in Lamont.
I believe this was shot at its smallest aperture of f16. So I can forget ever trying to get sun stars with the lens which is a pity. I have a few shots where there is a hint of a sun rays, but nothing like the sun stars from my higher quality Canon L lenses or even my old manual focus Nikkor lenses. But knowing that it is a limitation that I will be aware of when using it when shooting into the sun in the future.
Into the Sun
Another shot using the TTArtisans 23mm manual focus lens. The lens is really far from ideal. Here I was testing for flare. This lens loses so much contrast when shooting into the sun. To be honest this is a very tough test for any lens because of the sun reflecting off of the snow. Even trying to look at the scene by eye showed lots of flare and little detail. One great thing about mirrorless cameras is how when looking through the viewfinder you will not damage your vision when looking straight into the sun. I exposed hoping to try to keep some kind of detail in the highlights and in the sky, knowing the shadows would be severely underexposed, and accepted that knowing that I wanted a high contrast image as a final result.
It took some fiddling with this shot in Adobe Camera Raw using a few masks to try to get a dramatic look to the sky especially, and to get detail in the snow covered bits of the Bike Pump track at Hillside park here in Lamont.
I believe this was shot at its smallest aperture of f16. So I can forget ever trying to get sun stars with the lens which is a pity. I have a few shots where there is a hint of a sun rays, but nothing like the sun stars from my higher quality Canon L lenses or even my old manual focus Nikkor lenses. But knowing that it is a limitation that I will be aware of when using it when shooting into the sun in the future.