Stargazing at Meteora
I've been few times to Meteora, Greece. It's a magical place, really out of this World.
Most of the times, of course, I photograph beautiful landscapes with the monasteries but people visiting those holy places and quite interesting and unique. Here's this photo of some random folks, enjoying the views...
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This pic is really good! The perfect amount of shadows and light! Love it!
Much appreciated, dear friend, @blacklux! :)
This is simply amazing capture! No words!
How did you captured so sharp and clean sunrays? 8)
Thank you, @boddhisattva!
It is a photo technique where you intentionally use small aperture. The effect depends on the lens by few ways like the optics, the number of blades the diaphragm has, etc. But generally it is safe to assume values between f/16 and f/22 will be enough. And the most important condition is you photograph against a light source, whether it is the Sun or a flash ;)
Then, depending on where you want details to be seen of the objects in your frame, you either underexpose (everything within appears as silhouettes) or you overexpose a bit to bring light into the shadows :)
(How poetic, LMAO) :P
Thank you for the explanation!
I know about aperture trick. I used f/16 and less. But my rays are thick and not pronounced.
Like here
As I understand it's the matter of lens? I use a Sigma AF 17-50 for Nikon.
This one? https://www.sigmaphoto.com/17-50mm-f28-ex-dc-os-hsm
It says "Number of Diaphragm Blades" is 7. I am on Canon myself and from all my lenses, the worst diffraction comes out from one of my favorite lenses, 50mm f/1.4 :) And it has 8 blades. From my experience, better effect comes out of 9 blades ;) Also, have you tried hiding the Sun partially? ;)
Yes, this one. And I tried to hide the sun but I had the same effect, I think.
Thanks again for the explanation! 8)
You're very welcome! If you could try with another lens with more blades? I'm pretty sure that's where the issue comes from :)
Yeah, sometime I'll try :-)
I thought that it's the lens problem too. I hate it's green sunflares :-D
Hehe, the sun-flares are another aspect. And generally I love to turn defects into effects :P