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Sunset over Sriharikota Backwater Lake - Andhra Pradesh India.

 

IN FLICKR EXPLORE ON 01-02-2014.

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I am sorry I could not keep the front boat intact, as I had to maintain so many constraints while focussing the photo, that I forgot about the boat in front !

 

 

THIS IS UPTIL NOW THE BIGGEST SUN I COULD DO.

 

TO AVOID ANY APPREHENSION & CONFUSION & DOUBTS, I HAVE GIVEN UNDERNEATH , THE TECHNIQUE TO MAKE THE SUN BIG, IN THE FORM OF SOME QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, WHICH I REPLIED LONG BACK, IN ANOTHER PHOTO OF MINE ( www.flickr.com/photos/59670248@N05/7033025805/ ). THE TECHNIQUE IS SIMPLE BUT NEEDS PRACTICE. THANKS.

 

 

Revisited.

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Main Exif Info :

 

Camera - Canon EOS 7D

Lens - EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM

Exposure - 0.002 sec (1/500)

Aperture - f/9.0

Focal Length - 400 mm

ISO Speed - 100

Exposure Bias - 0 EV

 

 

rohidas_gaonkar

I am repeating the Exif shown to you here 8 months ago :

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You seem to be very very concerned about how do I make the Sun look so big !

Before I write something on this, please tell me in your photo attached, why you did not crop the top portion of the photo? That would have made the Sun look still bigger ! Please try to understand that, excepting Camera & appropriate lens, you have to apply some other techniques also !

 

Now please read the following :

 

Tanmoy Das [https://facebook.com/casualphotograph]

Many people have asked me about the same many a times and I have replied also.

Step 1 - Make your composition first focussing and try to guess how big the Sun you can make keeping other things more or less proportionate.

Step 2 - Leave the focus, physically come out of your composition place and focuss the Sun separately appropriately bigger. For this you need at least 70-300 or 100-400mm lens. Only Sun being focussed separately, it will obviously come out neat and blurrless, no other objects being in the Frame.

Step 3 - Lock this focuss or hold the focuss by pressing shutter button halfway, don't snap any photo at this stage. This is tough and you have to practice this.

Step 4 - Now come to the place of your original composition frame, still holding the same focuss, and after getting the original composition in the Frame, choose an angle, from where the other objects in the Frame, seem to be not as big as the Sun. Now snap the photo with the same focuss you were holding so long.

Result - All the objects in the frame will be sharp, no background or foreground blurrness will come and the Sun will also look big.

Other application - You can also take a Moon shot in the night (you need to practice a lot, it is very tough at night without any tripod) in the same way, whereby objects at infinite distance (Moon) and objects at finite distance (say tree leaves) will all come out sharp & clear and there will be no blurr at all, anywhere in the Frame.

 

Now some more Clarifications :

 

Hi Gautam,

I inserted my questions in your original text where I have inclearities:

 

Step 1 - Make your composition first focussing and try to guess how big the Sun you can make keeping other things more or less proportionate.

 

QUESTION: what does first focussing means here? having the corect composition of the picture or having the (autoforcus) being set correctly?

 

 

Step 2 - Leave the focus, physically come out of your composition place and focuss the Sun separately appropriately bigger. For this you need at least 70-300 or 100-400mm lens. Only Sun being focussed separately, it will obviously come out neat and blurrless, no other objects being in the Frame.

 

QUESTION: At the beginning you say "leave the focus" then you say "Sun being focussed separately". Do you make a separate photo only containing the sun?

 

 

Step 3 - Lock this focuss or hold the focuss by pressing shutter button halfway, don't snap any photo at this stage. This is tough and you have to practice this.

 

QUESTION: "Lock this focus" (which focus? the one of the separate sun?)

 

 

Step 4 - Now come to the place of your original composition frame, still holding the same focuss, and after getting the original composition in the Frame, choose an angle, from where the other objects in the Frame, seem to be not as big as the Sun. Now snap the photo with the same focuss you were holding so long.

 

QUESTION: "still holding the same focus" means here: still the same focus of the sun? and do zoom out to have a new composition?

 

 

Result - All the objects in the frame will be sharp, no background or foreground blurrness will come and the Sun will also look big.

 

The overall question is:

How much photos do I have to take? One with the sun and one with the entire composition (also containing the sun???). If I do two photos: how are the beeing merged? In photoshop?

Or do you have a camera which allows you to shoot two frames that are in one resulting photo?

 

Thanks in advance for a clarification of those questions.

 

Answer 1 - Making a correct MEASUREMENT of composition of a picture, to take an idea. nothing else.

 

Answer 2 - Only focuss the Sun separately appropriately bigger by zooming in - remember only the Sun, nothing else.

 

Answer 3 - Yes, with the separate Sun.

 

Answer 4 - Still holding the same focuss of the lone Sun. I repeat only the focuss. No photo involved.

 

Answer 5 - Please do not change the focuss any further now. Not to zoom out or zoom in , nor to touch the zooming ring. Already the earlier focuss is zoomed big which you are still holding on.

 

Answer 5 - Press the shutter now with the old focuss (without any change). Only one photo will be snapped. No question of any two photos or photoshop.

 

Answer 6 - I do not merge or shoot two photos for merging.

 

Thanks & Best regards

Gautam

 

 

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