Good mornin', sun!

[tupe]

Sky shots have eluded me lately, and I guess this is no exception. The original
looked washed out - in fact I was chimping thru and deleted one before I
remembered what they were.

Here's an attempt at salvaging one.

[cfcRebel]

Nice capture! It looks like a skeleton smiling at me! With a horn too! Creepy. :D

[tupe]

Nice capture! It looks like a skeleton smiling at me! With a horn too! Creepy. :DThanks, CFC. Might be something Ed Wood could use in a movie. :idea:

[Becca]

I know this is probably a question that a lot of people are going to roll their eyes at and think "what a newbie!", but how do you get those great expansive skys? Do you just aim the camera higher? Or are you using some kind of fisheye lens (although the horizon looks pretty straight)? I love these pictures and have not been able to get anything close to it yet.

I like this picture a lot (although that skull thing is a little creepy!) Any advice to the newbie would be GREATLY appreciated!

Thanks!

[tupe]

Thanks, Becca. I set my lens on the shortest focal length ("zoomed out") and fired. Including just a little of the ground/horizon gives it some perspective. I did select aperture mode and dialed in F/8.0 (that's the highest F-stop/greatest depth-of-field my camera would do for this shot) to get as much in focus as possible.

Someone with a camera and lenses more like yours can give you a more specific answer.

PS - I only take pictures of the sun when it's behind a cloud. Don't want to burn the sensor.

[Becca]

Thanks Tupe! I can't wait to get out there and try this. That's the thing I love about this forum. People are always willing to help out the newbies! Thanks so much.