Vitali87.

Wonderful to meet a fellow shutter sister

In regards to your focal length question it's 21mm on my 17-40mmL Canon wide angle lens. I've used a .9 ND Graduated filter so I can correctly expose the foreground without blowing the sky. Other details for your interest are ISO 50. Shutter 5 seconds. F22. Tripod. Remote Trigger. Mirror lockup on.

Thanks for lovely comment on it.

xx

tiff

Don't forget ladies that if you'd like a shot critiqued, pop it right here in this thread and you only need to ask.

I'm noticing a few shots that more like sunset shots rather than sunflare shots in the gallery folder.

Try to get that ray of light coming into the camera from above rather than the reflection of light off the sea. That's technically not a sunflare. More like bounced light from a reflective surface.

Sunflare looks like a bit of lightish yellowish mist coming from the top of the frame down into the picture. You can get this by not pointing directly at the sun, rather than to just one side of it.

Does that make sense??

keep at it girls so you can get into the 'Shoot it, Scrap it' challenge for September which goes live tonight.


tiff

another idea for you.

love anything purple

xx

love it Tiff where can I get me some purlpe boots

this is the best I could manage nothing like it sorry

Hey Gypsy. You have got it in the second shot. See that light haze on the left of the shot. That's sun flare. Don't worry about the tree not being lit up with flash or light. You've got the concept of sun flare. Have another try, say with a leaf of that tree, with the sunflare creeping in. You'll need flash to light up the leaf. Just try a smaller subject with the same idea of the sun off to the side.

and the boots are from here.

the best thing is that profits made from sale of the boots go to Breast Cancer WA. Purple is their colour there. And I'd order 2 sizes bigger than what you need. I'm a 4 and a half in Rossi's and these are 6.5.

:O)

thanks Tiff see if the weather is kind too me and I get another chance

and thanks for the info on the boots great to know they are for a good cause

really don't think I am getting this had an other bit of a play around sun was realy still too high tired some purple

ooooooo! this looks pretty, Gypsy......is that using your new camera?

gypsy. have some confidence girl.

THAT. IS. EXACTLY. IT.

The beams of light coming thru the right side of frame is sun flare.

10/10

gold star.

love the purple you know I'm a soft touch for that colour.

have a go with a person and sunflare. use the flash to fill in the shadows.

you have so got it happening.

t

thanks Deb yes with the new camera

thanks Tiff so glad I am getting there just go to work out how I did it now

Have no peolpe to pracitce on till my nieces come to visit by that time I might have worked out how to get the flash in action thanks for the suggestions Tiff

gyps. can you pop the make and model number here so I can google your flash on your camera.

you can too :O)


t

thanks Tiff its a canon pwoer shot SX130IS

check your manual as the answer is there. you just need to sit down with it, with your camera in your hand. Set up settings as you read along to get the gist of it.


look here

see the lightening bolt. That's the flash icon.

press the right side of the large dial. It should then pop up or turn on.

It should pop up and fire when you are in Auto mode anyway.


xx

thanks Tiff think I get it now

kwool.