It can be a nightmare when you want to take a particular photo but it's straight into sun.
Here's a little trick I use often on my iPhone (or any camera for that matter) to make it a feature of the image.
Find something - be it a street sign, branch, corner of a building - even a person and obstruct the sun with them as you frame up your shot. Then very slowly, move the camera left, right, up or down until the sun JUST pops out. You get this great effect - and many others! It makes your photos so much more usable than ending up with an over-exposed sky or a silhouette.
Try it - it's a fun one that not many even think to try.
Here's one, taken on iPhone, from a walk through an forest on the way up a hill in Central Italy.
Note: Apologies to all UK Steemians - who rarely get the opportunity to photograph anything with the sun out :P
Ciao - Andy
Great tip and photo. I'm a videographer myself. The sun is a tricky one for sure. You want it, or at least its effects for sure, they look awesome....but too much of it and you wreck everything!
Yup, agreed. I have zero ability when it comes to the 'moving picture'. In my head, setting the exposure etc. for video is voodoo!
haha, but I'll bet you still have a better handle on it than me. I'm a great editor, pretty terrible videographer....I use DSLR and do little more than point and shoot. Seems to work out and if not, like i said, i'm a good editor and the tools today are pretty slick to fix it. Garbage in, ok stuff out....
hahah, I'm sure it's not supposed to work like that - you're obviously being modest. But, you're right in that these days you can do an awful lot of damage control in post!
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