Questions tagged [sun]
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How do I photograph a landscape with a solar eclipse where the sun is not the main subject?
In a couple of weeks (March 20th) the UK will experience a near total eclipse (~90%).
So, I've read the information in these two questions:
How to take photos of a solar eclipse without damaging one&...
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How can I avoid green flare on my sunrise photos?
I took a series of sunrise photos. Once the sun actually came above the horizon, the brighter the sun became the more apparent and brighter a green flare (glare?) appeared. How can I avoid that?
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How safe is it to photograph sunset or sunrise? [duplicate]
I took the following photographs of sunset at beach. I know that photographing sun could damage the camera or even eyes, but the intensity of the sun light at the time I captured it was so weak that I ...
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Hour long exposure of the sun
I'm attempting to do a shot without causing damage to my camera...A hour long exposure of a sunset. I've have used two pieces of welder's glass and got this shot. It caused a purple haze over a good ...
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Is there a way to determine if photo was taken at sunrise or sunset? [duplicate]
When I look at photos of sunrise respectively sunset and do not know the cardinal direction I'm not able to identify if this photo was taken on sunrise or sunset. So I ask myself the question is there ...
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How can you photograph backlit scenes without getting lens reflections/flare?
I've been doing a lot of late afternoon photography and the weather has been pretty clear so the sunset has been a large influence over the pictures I've been taking. One problem I've been having is ...
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How do I photograph the sunset without damaging my camera?
This applies to the Sony NEX-5R, and the iPhone 5S. I want to shoot a timelapse of the sunset. The Sony manual says not to point it at the sun. Other questions on photo.SE agree with that advice, but ...
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How can I match light levels in a composite / panorama astronomy photo?
I have made a mosaique of the sun, but all pictures have different light levels. I was wondering how to match these colors to be the same everywhere.
So basically I need all the pink to be the same ...
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Is it dangerous to take pictures of the sun without any filter? [duplicate]
I captured this photo a few minutes ago :
The circle you see is the Sun :|. When I was taking this picture, I was in Live-View Mode with ...
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Why did the sun cut my photo?
Please look at this photo.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/105234648@N06/10767962476/in/set-72157637496250364
I am very new to photography and as you can see the sun being directly behind the scene (...
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What is the cause for this diffused artifact around the sun?
Last weekend, I tried shooting a wide-angle shot of a sunrise on the beach:
You'll notice that there is a haze/artifact around the sun in an otherwise cloudless sky. What causes this? How can I avoid ...
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Can the sun damage a point and shoot camera's sensor even when it is off?
In a point and shoot camera, is the sensor exposed even when the camera is off? ie. If the camera is off, can the sun still damage the sensor?
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What special equipment is needed to photograph the sun?
I have just seen some photos of the sun which someone did from their own backyard.
Not sure what sort of equipment he used, but what could I use to photograph the sun with my DSLR? I have a Nikon ...
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Why don't usual pictures of Sun show any protuberance or explosions?
I was just looking at this picture :
https://i.sstatic.net/vmRBh.jpg
and wondered why no Corona or trace of the little explosions on the surface of the Sun are visible ...
How should the Sun be ...
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How to make some nice photographs of midday sun? [closed]
Can i get some ideas on how to photograph midday sun to make it interesting?
The fact why I ask this question is that photographing the midday sun alone gives a dumb photograph.
Only idea that ...