The Face Of The Sun

[Chris Dodkin]

5D2 and 85mm at f1.4

 

[Brian Moore]

I love the bokeh on this one, Chris. The color is really nice, too.

 

[Darren Turner]

not what i expected to see, i like that about a title of an image, love the angle you have choose and the OOOF DOF is awesome

 

[Hamish Gill]

Spot on depth of field Chris!
The fall off of focus looks almost artificially strong doesn't it ...
Quite th happy sun!!
I imaging the sun to be a bit more angry than that

 

[Pete Askew]

Been to church I see - I guess there's one chicken less in SCal now then!!

Very, very nice again Chris. Have you shifted the colours at all or are these 'natural'?

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Thanks chaps - this particular sun sits on the wall over my BBQ, so may that's why he's happy Hamish!

DOF is all in lens/camera - the fall-off is very noticeable at this angle of view, but realistically you've only got 0.15 inch of 'in focus' working at this subject distance and f1.4 on a full frame camera.

For the colour, I just PP'd the RAW file with a Daylight WB instead of As Shot, and this warmed it up nicely - tweaked exposure and shadows as normal to get the final look.

I find the As Shot WB from the 5D2 tends to 'correct' the nice warm sunshine we get in CA, and make everything cooler - so unless I like that cooler effect, I usually switch to the preset 'Daylight WB' setting to get that warmth back into an image.

Amazing how it effects the viewer - I always play around with WB at the PP stage just to see what works and what doesn't.

 

[adrian jordin]

I love the unusual angle of this shot..something I need to experiment more with...

 

[Dave Moss]

Great angle Chris

 

[Thomas brookes]

Dang that lens is awesome !!! With Hamish on it looking almost artificial. Love the expression on the suns face.

 

[Pete Askew]

Love the expression on the suns face.

Yes, it's a sort of, "Oh no, not ribs again!" kind of look!!