Mar
22
2012Matter of inches
This is an image that I took over a year ago around the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at UCSD. I tried to stand in the middle of the path and have the sunburst off to the side to fill the empty sky. I kept on fiddling around with my camera position until I could eliminate the lens flare since I was using such a small aperture; I think once you get into the f/11 and above range you need to watch out for the sun flares. In this case I had my aperture to f/13 so it was moving it for a few inches and all was good 
Robby Cowell
A beautiful and high quality shot. This looks amazing!
2 Rivers Photos
Thanks Robby, much appreciated
Robby Cowell
You’re welcome.
Martyn Thompson
Cool – did you by chance study geophysics?
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No, I studied Mechanical Engineering so there was a a lot physics but not much geology
edithlevyphotography
Excellent shot. I love the sunflare and how you’ve composed the whole image.
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Thank you, glad you liked it
Tracie Louise
Amazing shot…. I know how tough it can be to shoot into the sun. Love it.
zelmare
How beautiful!
Xandré Verkes
Great shot, love the burst that you acquired in the window as well!!!
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Russel Ray Photos
That looks like the stairway/elevator that goes down to street level so one can get to the Scripps Institute of Oceanography.
On another thought, have you ever set the exposure compensation to -2 or -3 for a picture like that? I do it all the time, and it creates some beautiful sunset pictures without waiting around for the sun to actually set. Saves hours sometimes!
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Yes that is that elevator
As for the exposure compensation, this is an HDR of 6 images [-3,-2,-1,0,+1,+2] so that was included in it. I do know what you are referring to but I seldom use it as sunsets = HDR for me 99.9% of the time 
Russel Ray Photos
In what program do you do your HDR. I’m just now starting to explore it.
2 Rivers Photos
Photomatix is King… all the others are a waste of time in my humble opinion. Any questions you have about it, just ask
Even if you want, one day we can go grab a coffee at starbucks or something and I’ll show you how I go about them.
Stef
I like the ‘twin suns’, they balance very well.
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I admit that it was a pleasant accident
ionela
very, very beatuful…:) good luck!
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Thank you very much
Art X Nullality
This is a beautiful scene
SKEdazzles ~ A Lifestyle/Photo/Travel Blog
This is an amazing image! Love everything about it.
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Thanks a lot, appreciate it
Hindupur Avinash
Great perspective! I too had such instances where just a few inches mattered to capture a good photograph!
mdphotographers
Yeah I really need to move. Your photos of Cali make me long to visit a place I really had no interest in seeing!
RichardB1001
Beautiful shot. Love the house!
2 Rivers Photos
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it