3 Experimenting with Sunstars

[Chrislaf]

Have been experimenting with sunstars on my Mavic 3 Pro. Here's two images taken last night. I like the Auto image better because I can see the fall colours of the trees that have begun to change but obviously no sunstar because the aperture is wide open. When I go out again, I might try taking two images one using the settings to get a good sunstar and then one using auto to get a good general exposure and then combine them in post and see what I get. Both images were shot with the 24mm lens and were HDR blends from 5 shot AEB brackets.


ISO 400, f11, 1/8000


ISO 170, f2.8, 1/1600, -1.3EV

Chris

 

[RAC DJI]

Nice shots Chris, I like the first one with the sunstar.

 

[Chrislaf]

Thanks!

I do like the sunstar one but, I am going to experiment with multiple exposures next time exposing for the sunstar and then for the landscape to see if I can preserve the tree colours when I merge them.

If I try to lighten the landscape in the sunstar image it introduces too much noise and the image doesn’t look natural.

Chris

 

[GFields]

Awesome photos!

 

[Chrislaf]

Awesome photos!

Thank you.

Chris

 

[Chrislaf]

Here's one from last night.


ISO 100, f11, 1/500, -1.3EV HDR (5 shot AEB)

Chris