Originally posted by Gimbal How was that done?
I have snapped a lot of shots straight into the sun, but have never gotten anything like that. Some kind of hazy weather condition?
I was on the beach at Hatteras in the very early morning. Finished what I had planned and was trying some things with a newly acquired Sigma 100-300/4. Manual exposure. Tracked some gulls and one flew into the sun. Lens was racked out to 300 mm. I think as I swung around following the bird, I shut my eyes. It was hazy, a thick August morning.
40 minutes earlier and 180 degrees opposite, it looked like this. Except this was a 6 second exposure.