I was a little late when arriving to Zermatt, so I missed the last rail car by 10 minutes. And since I was not really in the mood to go up by foot, I stayed in Zermatt, taking a lot of photos from there. And luckily, the weather was just great, even if the sun was exactly next to the Matterhorn, so right in my shots. But since one still can get a nice shot into the shun, when using HDR, I managed to get a lot of nice shots. And here is the first one.
I used the technique of shading the sun with my hand here. You can read more about it in by How to remove Lens flares guide. Or just look at the Lightroom screenshot I’m including here, to see what I mean. For this one, I took two series of 5 exposures, one for the sun, one for the foreground. I created a HDR from both in Oloneo Photoengine and blended them together in Photoshop afterwards.
Number of exposures: 2×5, Camera Model: Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Lens: Canon 24-70mm F2.8
Focal length: 25mm, Aperture: 14, Middle exposure time: 1/40s, ISO: 100, Tripod used: yes
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Magical colors, mountain, sun and photo! Miroslav – can you share somewhere photoshop’s screenshot from process? I wonder how to do the sun like this. Did you use large F number?
You can see in the Lightroom screenshot (which I forgot to include, but thanks to your comment remembered and updated the post :) ) that the sun is like that already from the camera. It’s depends on lens and the aperture. I’m working on a post, where I explain this more, and also compare different lenses at different apertures, but it’s not ready yet.
Great! Thank you :)