shooting the sun - purple haze

[Croasdail]

This was taken with a 17-40 L of the New Harmony forest fire a couple of weeks ago. It also showed up with the other lenses used. While the image is nothing to get excited about - the purple haze around the sun is on most shots - some of which are pretty cool with the exception of the unwanted color. So my questions are this - 1) can this be avoided and if so how, and 2) if not - how to correct for it in post production.

thanks

[robertwgross]

In the first one, the color is probably pretty accurate.

In the second one, it looks a little unnatural. Did you shoot that in RAW or JPEG? If I had to do it, I would shoot it in RAW, then convert to 16-bit TIF, and then carefully step ahead that way.

---Bob Gross---

[Croasdail]

It's all the same image - the second is a crop to the area of issue so it could be seen better. Because I was on the road I was shooting JPEG.

Thanks Bob - I have a lot to learn about shooting stuff like this.

would it be acceptable to just clone the out the purple - or is there a better way to isolate the color and make it match the surrounding area?

[robertwgross]

Because I was on the road I was shooting JPEG.

That's a nonsequitur. I'm on the road a lot, and I have never shot a JPEG.

would it be acceptable to just clone the out the purple - or is there a better way to isolate the color and make it match the surrounding area?

It's not clear to me what color you are trying to get rid of and what color you want to substitute. I would have thought that you were trying to preserve the purple sky.

---Bob Gross---

[Croasdail]

In the crop there is a purple halo around the sun. If it isn't noticable to others... then I am fine.

As to the memory, I was gone for 2 weeks. I need to move up to 4 mp cf. I am shooting on 3 - 1 mg cf cards and even using JPEG I filled those up and needed to do some selective deleting to have enough space.