Staring at the Sun

[Paul Jones]

A lot of my favourite shots have been ones in which I pointed my camera directly at the sun, normally either at dawn or dusk. They are definitely challenging. You have to accept a certain amount of the photo will be blown out as well as the associated flare but done right, I think they can make for something special. Here are some of mine. I'm curious to see what other people have done and hopefully get a few new ideas....

[Shirley Jess]

[Ashley Campbell]

I love sunset shots. Here are a few of mine.

[Judith]

[Chris Wang]

[Wendy]

@henrir Wow, thank you so much for your wonderful comments!!

[Karuna Markham]

here is mine, taken through the smoke of wildfires.

[Jill]

[Devrin Wimberley]

So many beautiful photos in this thread!

[i'm grace]

[i'm grace]

I noticed that they wasn't any portraits on here....so here one is ;) I hope it counts....? :)

[Jaap Meijer]

Last Monday I photographed the sun fighting the sea mist. In Lightroom I added a gradient filter, to darken the sky.

[Natalie]

[Peter]

Chobe River, Botswana

[bmnorthernlight]

[Cassandra Hoffmann]

Here's a few of mine...

This one was with the help of a few other 365'ers... on an outing we had :)

[Elisabeth]

[Michelle]

My latest:


and a fun one:

[Warren]

Here is one of mine.

[Kellie]

[Kellie]