Observe, take aim and hence..... [by chvictor]
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Hi chvictor and all experts,
I wanted to take some shots like this.
I waited until sunset and was very excited to see the moment when the sun was actually red in colour. When I took a photo of it, unfortunately, the sun was captured as yellow in colour on the photos (sometime even white). Only the clouds and sky surrounding the sun are red in colour.
I tried to make it as dark as possible by setting the fastest shutter speed (1/8000) and smallest aperture(F22) but all i got was the foreground was dark and the sun was yellow.
Just like this sample of yours, the sun (ie the whole circle of the sun) in your photo is yellow in colour (in fact, it's almost white in color already) and only the clouds and skies surrounding the sun are red. This is not certainly what i saw with my eyes. I actually saw the sun very much red in colour.
Can I know when you took this, was the sun red or yellow in colour ?
Any tips to capture the sun in it's actual red colour as our eyes sees it ?
Thanks
I wanted to take some shots like this.
I waited until sunset and was very excited to see the moment when the sun was actually red in colour. When I took a photo of it, unfortunately, the sun was captured as yellow in colour on the photos (sometime even white). Only the clouds and sky surrounding the sun are red in colour.
I tried to make it as dark as possible by setting the fastest shutter speed (1/8000) and smallest aperture(F22) but all i got was the foreground was dark and the sun was yellow.
Just like this sample of yours, the sun (ie the whole circle of the sun) in your photo is yellow in colour (in fact, it's almost white in color already) and only the clouds and skies surrounding the sun are red. This is not certainly what i saw with my eyes. I actually saw the sun very much red in colour.
Can I know when you took this, was the sun red or yellow in colour ?
Any tips to capture the sun in it's actual red colour as our eyes sees it ?
Thanks
#22 SAFTI Landmark Tower. Took this last evening from our corridor. Used a telephoto lens (@300mm) to shoot the beautiful sun setting beside this structure .
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Hi Ryan, the human eye is capable of very high dynamic range, allowing us to clearly see a very dark subject against a very bright background. Cameras, on the other hand, have a much lower dynamic range. This can make it nearly impossible to get your camera to capture what you see, because you simply see much better than your camera does. You probably took your shot on a slightly cloudy or hazy evening which explained why you saw the sun in red or pinkish color. The haze influences the intensity and color of the sky and horizon, intensity and color of sunlight, and softness of the glow around the sun. The scene I took was brighter when I saw it with my naked eye, clearly not the red sun you saw. Like you, I adjusted my camera exposure setting in order to capture the silhouette and orangey sky thus resulted in the 'yellow or white colored' sun that you mentioned. You can try bracket your shot and blend them together in software. There're always other possibilities like adding a ND, GND or RGND filter, etc...
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Thanks chvictor for your thoughts and educating me ...
Am I correct in understanding you that with more clouds and haze, these particles will soften the glow of the sun and thus make the sun towards a more red in colour.
I have also tried using ND and GND filter but it made the photos at the foreground too dark and when I adjusted the raw file in post, the noise is too obvious. My intention is to get a red sun plus being able to see the buildings at the foreground. But as you have educated me, I now understand that our camera cannot captured exactly as what our eyes see. But doing bracketing is too troublesome for me as I intend to do a timelapse and it is difficult to post-process if I use the bracketing method ...
Thanks & regards
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