...lead me home, to the place where I belong! This is about one kilometre from home but I confess to a bit of artistic licence because home was in fact behind me as I captured this image ;-) I was interested to note that after my year of shooting exclusively with a 35mm (FF equivalent) lens, I've adapted quickly to the 50mm as I already know instinctively what I'm going to see through the viewfinder when I put the camera to my eye... perhaps I'm making progress!
This is for my PLAY project - you can read more about it in my profile - where I'll be using a different prime lens for each month of the year: in January it's the Nikon 50mm f/1.4G on a full-frame camera (the D610 today).
Sympathetic treatment of our part of the world. It looks like the first line of a Harvest hymn! Beautifully mastered. It's evident how much you've missed processing....
@vignouse :-) @francoise Its an old fashioned attitude Francoise. Full sun produces a 'hole' in the image.. that is a burnt out highlight. In a darkroom (chemical or digital) there is nothing you can do to get any detail in those. So when I was young it was a no-no! These days (at least looking through 365) it seems to have become acceptable. One way of overcoming the 'problem' is to screen the sun with another object, as Richard has done here. (Richard, do you think I have got this about right?)
@yrhenwr@francoise Yes David, I think you summed up the issues nicely. You can't eliminate the burnt out highlight as there just isn't enough dynamic range in any film or sensor to handle the extreme brigtness of the sun. Personally. I can live with it if it just limited to the sun's disc itself and I try to ensure that by underexposing a couple of stops and correcting the rest of the image in post.
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@francoise Its an old fashioned attitude Francoise. Full sun produces a 'hole' in the image.. that is a burnt out highlight. In a darkroom (chemical or digital) there is nothing you can do to get any detail in those. So when I was young it was a no-no! These days (at least looking through 365) it seems to have become acceptable. One way of overcoming the 'problem' is to screen the sun with another object, as Richard has done here. (Richard, do you think I have got this about right?)