Eye in the Sky

[metallion58]

I took this picture for the Golden Hour assignment (presented a different one instead). I noticed this halo around the Sun. I first tought it was an artefact from PP but then noticed the halo also reflected in the water. Cool!
I'd like your opinion about the colours/saturation in there. The colours were pretty strong at that point but should I try to reduce saturation or is it OK as is?
Any other opinions are welcome too, of course.



Exif data

Camera	Nikon D90
Exposure	1/4000 sec
Aperture	f/4.0
Focal Length	55 mm
ISO Speed	200
Exposure Bias	-1 EV
Flash	No Flash
Software	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.5 (Windows)
Exposure Program	Aperture-priority AE
Metering Mode	Multi-segment
White Balance	Manual
Gain Control	None
Contrast	Normal
Saturation	Normal
Sharpness	Normal
Compression	JPEG (old-style)
Lens	55.0-200.0 mm f/4.0-5.6

[Doug Sundseth]

Saturation looks fine to me. When you have a 400 yotta-watt continuous light source in the frame, it's pretty likely that it will blow out at least one channel, and for me, at least, it wouldn't look right if you tried to drop the saturation too far.

[metallion58]

Originally Posted by Doug Sundseth

When you have a 400 yotta-watt continuous light source in the frame, it's pretty likely that it will blow out at least one channel

Thanks Doug.
I was thinking more about the area surrounding the sun than the sun itself.
Altought a dim switch for the sun would be nice for astronomy (I want to observe Mercury, shut the darn thing off !)

[Krusty79]

I don't see any banding in the sky, it looks fine to me. I would consider cloning out that stick or whatever that is to the right of the sun.

[metallion58]

Originally Posted by Krusty79

I don't see any banding in the sky, it looks fine to me. I would consider cloning out that stick or whatever that is to the right of the sun.

Thanks for the input, Krusty.
And, just so you'll know, that stick is a buoy.

[narmour]

I quite like the buoy actually. In fact a zoomed in shot to include the buoy as the main subject in front of that amazing sunset would be a nice shot also.

[metallion58]

Originally Posted by narmour

I quite like the buoy actually. In fact a zoomed in shot to include the buoy as the main subject in front of that amazing sunset would be a nice shot also.

Thanks. Unfortunately, I didn't have my tripod with me at the time.