March 2019
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
5h 46m
English

Usually, if the sun is in our shot, it’s just a big glowing orb of brightness. But you’ve also seen shots where the sun is more contained and it has these wonderful well-defined rays coming off it like a starburst. What’s the trick to getting those starbursts? It’s two things: (1) You need to position the sun, so that it touches the edge of something—the side of a mountain, the edge of a tree, the tip of an arch, it just has to touch something. (2) Shoot the scene at f/22, and that will give you the starburst effect. That’s it? Yup, that’s it.
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