Advice for shooting with sun stright on.

Hello all,

My drive into work each day brings me down a streach of road that has a wide open grassy area with a lot of trees in the back ground.

In the early morning hours, this time of year you can usually catch a couple of deer eatting with the sun rising over the trees. To the human eye this would be a fantastic pic with the sun rays coming over the trees and the deers having breakfast.

But for this shot, there is only one spot across the road to get it, and the sun is right in your face.

What is the best way to take a pic with the sun stright on? I have a UV filter, but have noticed "sun spot" in some pics I have with the sun in them.

I shoot with the XTi and the kit lens and the 75/300 lens.

Thanks for the advice.

Mike

jmann12180,
A quick suggestion is to try without the UV filter, as that might help reduce the sun spot reflection.

If you fit a lens hood that can help and so can a polarising filter possibly.

Ditto what Mark Kemp said. Also, don't forget to account for all that extra light. That will typically "fool" the meter and the camera will have a tendency to underexpose and your deer may turn up dark. May need to dial in some +EC.

Sorry for such a rookie question...what is +EC?

Remove the UV, a hood won't help much at all if the sun is direct into the lens.

EC is exposure compensation.

I'd personaly take a reading in partial metering mode for the deer, then set this up in M, fire away and adjust.

All you need to do is get the sun off your lens glass. The angle might be such that a lens hood does not do this so do like you would to get the sun out of your eyes... use your hand like a visor to shade the glass... or a hat, or piece of cardboard, whatever, just do not let the sun directly hit the glass.