Practicing my sunstar technique at a scenery location in Bulgaria
Greetings, photo fans!
Let me share with you today a few photographs I made at the sunken church in the Zhrebchevo dam in central Bulgaria, thankfully not sunken at all at the time of this visit.
You may have noticed that I love this technique, based on the light diffraction.
The trick of making a good diffraction is to find the perfect spot and use small aperture values, let say f/13 to f/22 would do it for the most of the lenses. Of course, all the camera settings are important, I don't want to have motion blur or under/over-exposure.
Also interesting point is that even my breathing could impact the outcome. If their is wind, that too. Even in burst mode (that I didn't use here), all the pictures will be a bit different.
Here are the photos from this "photo-shoot".
That first one wasn't staged, I just got happy to have that young family stepping out of the church. That should count for Street Photography, I suppose? :)
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| Cameras | Canon EOS 5D Mark III |
|---|---|
| Canon EOS M5 | |
| Canon EOS 550D | |
| Lenses | Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM |
| Canon EF 135mm f/2L USM | |
| Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM | |
| Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM | |
| Canon EF-M 15-45mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM | |
| Canon EF-M 22mm f/2 STM | |
| Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 | |
| 7artisans 35mm f/1.2 | |
| Strobes | Dynaphos Speedster |
| Flashes | Metz |
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BEERKING.You pulled it off very well, in my amateur opinion. Those shots are difficult. For this type of shot is it advisable to use a filter on the lens, polarizer maybe?
Thank you!
I usually don't use pola filters, unless I have to, but if I see a suitable spot to take such shot, I wouldn't remove it if it is already there.
Pola filters reduce the light, you know, so this would bump the ISO too and add noise.
When I first started with pro digital photograph, I used pola filters for almost all of my landscape photographs but once I started to upload to stock agencies, I removed the filters and they add sometimes an "artificial" feel and such photos get often rejected for quality reasons.
I hope that helps :)
Of course it helps, thank you very much for the advice. I didn't know it added noise. There is a lot to learn still. 👍
Glad to hear this! Actually, to be precise, the filter does not add noise directly, but the price to directing the light is that the glass reduces the light. So, if the aperture and shutter speed are the same, the ISO is increased and here comes the more noise ;)
Low-quality cheap filters could also cause visual deformations and filters are much easier to attract fingerprints too ;) Speaking from experience ;)
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