New Year’s Morning


The view out our back yard. Taken Jan 1 2010. I like sun flair!

New Year’s Morning was uploaded by Raznoggle to the Flickr Project 365: 2010

01 Jan This entry was written by Rachel, posted on January 1, 2010 at 9:20 am, filed under photoaday2010. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

2 Comments

  1. Sarah
    Posted January 1, 2010 at 10:18 am | #

    Love sunflare too! What a beautiful wintery view to wake up to. Love how you composed this shot.

    I think I remember reading to use a really high f-stop? Like f-22+ to get the best “rays” on the flare. It has the same effect as squinting your eyes while looking at a source of light. I tried this with my Christmas tree this year, and it really did work! Oh, and you can also add sunflare in PP (in PS, anyways, not sure about the program you’re using. ?). Not that your sunflare needs help- lol. Just some things I’ve been thinking about along the sunflare lines. :)

  2. Rachel
    Posted January 1, 2010 at 4:36 pm | #

    Hey thanks Sarah! I’m sure there is a way to add sunflair in my software, but I hadn’t heard about the f-stop, so thanks for that tip. Stu and I were browsing some of the shops in Sedona when we were there a couple weekends ago and saw some photos that a local artist was selling in a shop. There were 2 different photos with, surprisingly, the very same sun flair. ;-) Plus the sun was “flairing” BEHIND where the obvious light source was coming from in the photo. I thought it was kinda hokey actually, but maybe someone liked it and actually paid money for the ‘doctored’ pictures. All that to say while I’m not a “purist” I still don’t like overly “tweaked” photos. :-)