As I’m sat here looking for a Friday Image to post, I realise I haven’t been out with a camera all week. The weather’s been grey and wet, although it’s been trying to snow this afternoon. I’ve also had my head buried in the second draft of my Affinity Photo book. I want to finish this and get it off for editing so that I stand a chance of launching later in the month or early February.
Anyway, I thought I would look through some of my recent shots and found this one from mid-December. It’s two images captured on my Fuji X-T2 and stitched in Lightroom.
It’s funny because I remember this sunburst at the time but forgot that I had shot it. It was quite an amazing scene and I noticed it as soon as we arrived at the parking. I thought I would miss it by the time I had walked up and onto the edge, but I didn’t. In fact, it went on for almost 30 minutes before the clouds cleared.
Shooting the image was straightforward. I used a long lens to crop in on the sunburst and a soft 0.9 ND Grad on the sky. I set the metering to use the centre of the frame which was quite bright. I figured that if I let it expose that area to a midtone it would intensify the colours in the sunburst and send the foreground hill into silhouette. The trickiest part was trying to focus as the camera wouldn’t lock onto anything. In the end I focussed manually on the horizon, slightly out of frame. I then recomposed and captured the frames I needed.
I hope you like the image and have a great weekend.
The Lightweight Photographer 
I have had the same issue of not getting out and shooting lately. Made myself go yesterday evening though the conditions were not great.
I’m pleased it’s not just me at the moment but I think you’ve shamed me into it. I’m off out in the morning although I just went out to pick up my wife and it’s snowing hard. We shall see what happens.
I’ve been encouraged to know you are writing a book on Affinity Photo. I hope it also has intermediate to advanced material, like your recent YouTube videos. There’s a great need for such material, as Serif’s book send so expensive ($50).
Good luck with it.
Thank you. Unfortunately, the book is aimed at someone who is struggling with or fairly new to Affinity and wants to take their skills to at least the intermediate level. If there is sufficient demand for this I will consider more advanced topics. It will certainly be more affordable than the Serif book and will use my Magazine Pricing i.e. it will cost about the same as a photo magazine.