Although straightforward, I found this project fiddly to complete. It was easy to take a reading of the trees away from the sun so that the foliage was reasonably correctly exposed but more difficult to positon the sun/leaves in such a way as to produce a sunstar without flare. It ook many shots which had either too much flare or no sunstar at all. The dividing line is very fine.
Below are a selection of the shots I took to illustrate the project. All images were taken on manual with an exposure reading taken away from the sun.
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| Here I have allowed too much sun to show and it has produced a great deal of unsightly flare. |
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| Just right here; pleasing sunstar, no flare and foliage reasonably exposed. |
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| Again. Just right. |
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| Just missed it here so too large a burst of light and undesirable flare. |
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| Just right again. |
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| Missed it the other way this time. The sun is too hidden by the leaves and so there is no sunstar but there are some undesirable highlights showing. |
Learning. It is possible to take photographs into the light without having a silhouette effect. Although it is a fine line, it is possible to have a correctly exposed subject and a sunstar at the same time although it can be fiddly. This is worth bearing in mind in future photography.
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